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Note: 1881 census - boarding at 46 Earl St, St Marylebone, London. Assistant Grocer. Head of household Rebecca Salmon,age 60, a widow.
Bud remembers her grandfather taking her to the railway station at Low St, W Tilbury. He was a portly gentleman, deafened by years of being a railway fireman - the engines were open to the air then and it had ruined his hearing. He was immaculate, often wearing his Sunday suit, with watch chain gleaming across his front. Bud remembers her grandmother, Kate, more as a presence than anything else, she died when Bud was young. But there are Scottish connections there, Henry even used to speak with a Scottish accent on (rare) occasions.
Other family names connected with Thomas Wilkins are his friends from Calne, Haddrell (a 'taxi driver' of gypsy origins who was illiterate but knew every road in the South of England including London), Burt, and .... Knee! The Knees had a removals business around the Trowbridge area.
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