Thomas Tomalin has left no trace, except the memory of his name preserved by the wife of Joseph, and handed on to her son, who, in turn, spoke of Thomas to his wife, who has been heard by Mrs.Rooke (her sister) to mention that fact in the family history.

What is more, I find a vague tradition that a sister of Joseph and Thomas made a brilliant marriage." "How is it that your advertisements were never seen by these people--these Rookes ?" "So it happened, that's all one can say.

I have known many such failures.

May Tomalin was born at Toronto, where he?
father, also a Joseph, died in '80.

Her mother, an Englishwoman, came back to England in '81, bringing May, the only child; she settled at Northampton, and, on her death in the following year, May passed into the care of the Rookes.