He joins the army, marries Alice, adopts William Huff and and retires to London as can be seen on the 1871 census:

and the 1881 census:

and the 1891 census where they are living three houses away from William and Emma Way (Nee Benbow - his youngest sister):

Thomas and Alice retire to the Isle of Wight according to the 1901 census:

On the next page his niece Rose Benbow (1886) is staying!
Thomas died in 1909:

His wife Alice died in 1914:
