Thomas and his wife were living with his father (and his wife) at the time of the 1881 census for Wakefield,PQ, along with his other siblings. Also living with them at the time were Thomas Wilson (born in Norvege,Norway in about 1853) and George Maawell who was born in Oct. 1881 in Quebec, of Norway descent.

Thomas was a farmer livingin in Wakefield at the time of his marriage to Nancy. Witnesses were thomas Wilson of Hull, and Catherine Stevenson of Wakefield.