Thomas Bird Dennis

Thomas Bird Dennis was born in 1891 in Huckall Torkard and was the son of Harry Bird Dennis a coal miner and Mary Dennis of 19 Beardall Street, Hucknall, Nottingham. His father Harry Bird Dennis was born in 1855 in Moira, Leicestershire and his mother Mary Dennis was born in 1860 in Oakthorpe, Leicestershire, they were married C1877 and went on to have 10 children , two of whom were to die in infancy or early childhood, their surviving children al born in Hucknall were : Sarah b1880, Henry b182, Mary Jane b1884, Annie b1887, Thomas b1891, Sidney b1893, Lucy Bird b1895 and Nellie Bird b1898. In the 1911 census the family are living at 19 Beardall Street, Hucknall, and are shown as Harry Bird 56 yrs a coal miner , he is living with his wife Mary 51 years and their children Sidney 18 yrs a coal miner, Lucy Bird 16 yrs and Nellie Bird 13 yrs. He was the husband of Amelia (née Hesketh) Bird Dennis, whom he had married in 1913, their marriage was recorded in the Basford Registration district they lived at 4a Beardall Street Hucknall Torkard Nottinghamshire. He had one son, Donald. Don Dennis was to die at Anzio with the Sherwood Foresters in 1944.