Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Jane Adams of Bitteswell, Leics. In 1901 the family home was at Newnham Pasddox, Monkls Kirby, Warwickshire, present were his father Edward a Game Keeper, born in 1847 in Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire and his wife Elizabeth J., born 1849 in Ireland. Thomas Francis was born in 1889 in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire and he had one brother and three sisters, Hugh B., born 1893, Mary C. born 1887, Madeline M., born 1891 and Mary A., born 1896, all four of his siblings were born in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire. In 1911 he was residing at Beauchieff Beach Road, Portishead, Somerset, and his trade or calling was given as Tranferer.