An American Family History

Thomas Lewis Thomas was born about 1829 in Thornbury Gloucestershire, England. His parents were John Morgan Thomas and Mary Lewis. 

He married Lydia Rowe on April 20, 1859 in Ontario. Lydia was born on September 11, 1841. Her parents were Frederick Rowe and Edna Hall.

Their children were Eliza J. Thomas Long (1860), Frances Thomas Bodell (1861), and Celia Thomas (1863). They lived in Walpole, Haldimand, Ontario.

Thomas died before 1865 when Lydia married William S. Tyrell.

At the time of the 1870 census, Eliza, Frances, and Celia were living with their grandmother Edna in Walpole. Their mother was in a nearby household with her husband William and 4 year old son Walter.