 Thomas Mortimer was a widower with two young daughters, the elder of whom died young and the other suffered from severe depression necessitating long periods away from her family, much to Favell's distress.Her niece and biographer painted the marriage as a happy one ending with his death in 1850.However, her nephew Edwyn Bevan commemorating the centenary of the publication of "Peep of Day" suggested that Thomas Mortimer had a violent temper and was sometimes cruel to her.