As a toddler, Max was a nitwit! He also made a lot of messes in the kitchen. As he grew older, he became more like his mother than his father. A playful child, he nonetheless was bullied at times by little Oswald (born 1816) and big Alexander (born 1810), the Hardy brothers, who slowly redeemed themselves to become his friends.
Even the younger hardy brothers Jacob (born 1820) and Mack (born 1822) enjoyed the escapades! As he moved out of the house, he came to Washington DC to work at the newspaper agency. As he worked harder, he became a member of the Burns family's minion brigade consisting of six members.
After becoming such a minion brigade member, Max Quartermaine met fellow brigadier Molly Maelstrom, the only female in the group. Their love caused some tension, and led to their boring and brief marriage in 1844. They divorced a year later, but still remained friends.
Meanwhile, Max met Thelma Heslop in 1846 and married her in 1849 after three years of knowing each other. Theirs was a colourful one, full of mostly minor scandals, leading to the births of their four children, three single girls and an entrepreneurial youngest child - a boy. Thelma also had a single miscarriage, but luckily, that was averted later on.
The surviving children were; Teagan (born 1852, single for much of her life), Amalberga (born 1854, married Denny Chatwin), Tileke (born in 1858, married Samuel Hardy, son of Mack Hardy and Jools van Byl) and Alke (born in 1866, married Hazel Strong).
Thelma died fighting for the suffragettes in a disastrous protest in 1889, while Max died at home earlier than that, in 1882.