Thomas Short married Ann Arnold on the 14th February 1828 at Kingswear Church. From census returns Ann was born in 1808/9 in Dartmouth. For further details about her ancestry and family click here.
Both in the baptism records of his eldest sons and in the 1841 Census Thomas's occupation is given as a Mason and he was obviously following in the family trade. In 1851 the family were still living in Higher Street, Kingswear but in 1861 were in St Stephen St. By 1871 they were back at 11 Higher Street.
Thomas's death is recorded on a tablet in Kingswear Church:
"Mr Thomas Short, mason of Kingswear. He went to the cove at Kingswear Castle to save from drowning Sarah Ellis and lost his life. July 22nd 1871."
To read an eyewitness account of the event - CLICK HERE
Thomas was baptised on the 15th January 1829. By 1851 he, like his father, was a mason. Presumably he moved away from Kingswear and got married. In 1881 he was at 54 Wolseley Road, Horfield, Bristol, widowed, a builder and plasterer. In 1891 and 1901 he is back at the Post Office in Kingswear - still a widower, It is not known whether he had any children.
Baptised on the 29th February 1832 he died as a baby and was buried on the 26th March 1832.
In 1851 he was a joiners apprentice and he married Anne Elizabeth Stone in Dartmouth c 1857. They had six children all of whom were baptised at the Dartmouth Methodist Church:
William born 15/10/1857, baptised 8/11/1857
Ellen born 11/8/1859, baptised 23/8/1859
Mary Anne born 3/7/1861, baptised 21/8/1861
Thomas born 17/7/1863, baptised 5/8/1863
Emma born 24/12/1866, baptised 26/2/1867
Fred born 1/10/1868, baptised 5/1/1869
In 1871 the family were living in Newcomen Road, Dartmouth. Sometime in the next nine years they emigrated and ended up, in 1880, in San Francisco. William was a carpenter but the sons appeared not to have followed his trade - the eldest, William, was a butcher while Thomas was a rope worker.
Married Louisa Fogwell Goodridge in Dartmouth in the early 1860's. Next in the direct line of descent, he and his wife have their own page
Married Ellen Lamble in Apr-Jun 1870. They had a large family, all of whom were baptised at the Dartmouth Methodist Church:
Alice born 5/6/1871, baptised 15/7/1871
Rosa born 22/7/1872, baptised 31/9/1872; buried 6/1/1873
Edith born 20/7/1873, baptised 2/9/1873
Clara born c 1875
Ethel born 29/1/1876, baptised 14/3/1876
Bessie born 17/6/1877, baptised 28/8/1877
Harold born 11/6/1878, baptised 30/7/1878
Wilfred born 27/5/1879, baptised 22/7/1879
Mary Ellen born 22/5/1880, baptised 20/7/1880
Marion born 10/7/1881, baptised 14/8/1881
Louisa born August 1882, baptised 5/10/1882
Hilda born 22/1/1884, baptised 31/3/1884
Ellen died on 19th January 1885 and is buried with her daughter Edith (d 23rd February 1897) in Kingswear. James Henry subsequently re-married - to Bessie Lamble (who may have been Ellen's sister) in Jan-Mar 1886 - and had two more daughters - Margaret (christened 10/9/1889) and Kathleen (christened 12/7/1892).
Bessie Lamble was the daughter of Peter and Mary Lamble from Dartmouth. She had a twin brother Harry and they were born about 1/9/1855 and christened at the Methodist Church on 28/10/1855. She also had an elder sister Fanny born 26/12/1851 (christened 6/1/1852).
In 1891 the eldest daughter, Alice, was a dressmaker in Plymouth living with her uncle George Lamble and his family. Edith (a milliners apprentice), Clara (a Pupil Teacher) and Ethel (a Monitress) were still at home with the younger children. Living with the family was Mary Lamble.
Ethel was still in Kingswear in 1901, unmarried and working as a milliner. Bessie was in Southampton in service as a domestic help. Mary was similarly employed in Newton Abbot. All four of the younger daughters were also in Kingswear - Louisa was a draper's assistant, Hilda a "pupil teacher", the other two were still at school.
The two sons both married and moved to Dartmouth. Harold and his wife Edith Olivia had Clarence in 1905 and twins, Norman George and Betty in 1907. Wilfred and his wife Edith Emma had a daughter - Ethel - in 1910.
Like his father and brothers James was a mason. In fact he was in partnership with his brother John but the two fell out over something to do with building work at the Methodist Church in Dartmouth and the feud between them lasted to their deaths. In 1901, James and his family were in New Road, Kingswear.
James (died 1st October 1911) and his wife Bessie (d 27th February 1923) are buried at Kingswear.
Married a mariner from Teignmouth - George Farrant and had at least one child - a daughter called Minnie born in 1869 in Teignmouth. In the 1881 census George's place of birth is given as Sidbury - born c 1841. He was, by now, a railway porter and they were living at 3, Erin Cottages, Tormohan
in this picture Ann would have been 73, George 77
Married Thomas Clark and had at least four children, two daughters - Ina born in 1871 and Flora born in 1874 - and two sons - Walter (1880) and Wreford (1885).
No pictures of Ellen but here, at least, is her
husband 
Thomas Clark was a baker and grocer - originally from Stokes Bay in Hampshire -
born c1844. In 1881 they lived on Brixham Road in Kingswear. In 1891
Thomas was the postmaster at Kingswear and the two daughters were both
telegraphists.