Abberline was married twice: once in March 1868 to 25-year-old Martha Mackness, the daughter of a labourer, from Elton, Northamptonshire; she died of tuberculosis two months after the marriage.
Abberline died on December 10, 1929 aged 86 at his home, "Estcourt", 195 Holdenhurst Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth, just under three months before his wife Emma,[REF] and was buried in Bournemouth at Wimborne Road Cemetery.