 It is recorded that when the regiment was disbanded he kept the banners, instruments and other items at Kennox, saying that "if anyone had a better claim" he would release the items to them.Captain Charles Somerville McAlester married Williamina P. Pollok - Morris of Craig House.She died aged 27 in 1872 and is buried in Saint Maurs - Glencairn church with her parents and not with her husband.