Birmingham-born Thomas Hill traded as an electro-plater at 47 Norfolk Street (1881-1891), after previously working for Geo. Travis. He was a traveller in London and the provinces, who was rarely enumerated in the Census at his home in Brunswick Street. In 1869, he had married Isabella, the daughter of William Jackson FRCSE. He was once accused of fathering a child after a dalliance with an 18-year-old chambermaid in London. Hill admitted kissing her, ‘but that was all, and nothing further took p....