On 16th December 1872, as a 28 year old labourer, Frederick married 19 year old Georgina Jones, daughter of former convicts Susan Featherstone and the late George Jones, who died 3 months previously.
The wedding ceremony, conducted by Joseph Long, took place in the home of her mother Susan near Margate, under the rites of the Primitive Methodist Church.
Witnesses were Richard Orpen Sproul, a Newgate farmer and her sister Elizabeth Ann Jones of Browns River who signed her mark.