on 22 December 1898 at St Mary Abbots in London. They had two children, including Mary Jaeger (26 April 1900 - September 1991, East Sussex).

At the beginning of 1905 Jaeger was ill with tuberculosis and went to Davos in Switzerland, but he was still receiving a pension from Novellos. After the long and depressing illness, during which he and Elgar still corresponded about musical matters, Jaeger died in Muswell Hill