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==Marriage, & Family, ; Financial hardship and deliverance; Death==He married Miriam Grainger, daughter of James Grainger of Newport, on March 20, 1851 and they had two sons and one daughter.   Unlike most authors, Mr. Midlane never took out a copyright for any of his hymns, and never derived any monetary benefit from them, and having become a guarantor for a friend, he was reduced to bankruptcy.  Admirers throughout the country, in conjunction with the Sunday School Union, raised a sum which enabled the bankruptcy to be annulled, and provided an annuity for Midlane and his wife.  He died of an apoplectic seizure on February 27, 1909 at his home in Forest Villa on South Mall, Newport, Isle of Wight.  He was buried in the Carisbrooke cemtery.   Mrs. Midlane died January 13, 1914.