Tom lived his whole life around the town of St Just in Penwith. Records indicate that Tom was a tin miner from the age of 13 through all his working life. In the 1911 census Tom indicates that he and Elizabeth had 12 children, yet records identify only 7 of these. The other 5 must have been still born or died very soon after birth. Tom also states in the same census that of the 12 children only 5 were still alive.  His son Thomas died 1903 and son Isaac in 1909. This means that all the others including the youngest in William Hicks were still alive at that time. Elizabeth’s maiden name of Perrow was reused as a middle name for two of her sons  in Isaac and Joseph.