Family and Professional Life
On 8 July 1874 he married Letticia Mckay at Hampden, North Otago, at the house of her father. They had one daughter, Margaret Annie, born in 1875 at Cromwell, Otago. Letticia died at Hampden on 27 September 1876,aged 22. She is buried in the Hampden cemetery.
On 31 July 1878, he married Margaret McGregor Reid, daughter of his business partner Donald Reid. The marriage was conducted at Reid's residence Salisbury in North Taieri. They had four daughters, Fanny Stewart Fergus, Annie Grange Fergus,Daisy McGregor Reid Fergus,Elizabeth(Bessie)Barr Fergus.
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