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Have you seen this thread on the Lingards of Tideswell?

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=533536.msg7558816#msg7558816

As you say, Tideswell is only small so the Lingards of Tideswell / Litton will all be related somehow -- and further back are probably related to the Lingards of Chapel-en-leFrith

From the census entries others have found, it does seem that the prompts about William of Tideswell being Thomas's father is correct

" International tours were popular in Sydney the 1920s. Chinese soccer teams toured Australia in 1923, when a Sydney Cricket Ground crowd of 47,500 watched Australia play, and again in 1927."

from: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/blog/soccer_in_sydney

also:
09 Jul 1927   Australia v China   L   1-6   International Friendly
16 Jul 1927   Australia v China   L   4-7   International Friendly
23 Jul 1927   Australia v China   D   1-1   International Friendly

from: https://www.11v11.com/teams/australia/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/China%20PR/

It might happen in time!

Not long after I started researching my husband's tree, I sent a copy of what I had learnt so far to various family members including his mother's elderly cousin, and said I would be grateful for any other information they knew about the family.
I heard nothing from the cousin -- just put it down to he had no interest in family history.

About 15 years later, I was contacted by his nephew who had been given the papers I had sent  -- the nephew had started to research his tree so was very grateful for the starting point! By this time, I had of course got a lot further with the family so was able to pass more information on. We are now in regular contact

Whereabouts in the UK?
Scottish Registration started later than England & Wales, and has different information on it.

For England & Wales -- yes you can apply for a certificate for 1855 from the GRO.
You can get one in various forms at various prices -- paper, PDF download etc

The Mother will certainly be named -- both her married name plus her maiden name
The Father will certainly be named if she is a married woman -- it will be assumed her husband is the father and so his name & profession is listed
For an illegitimate birth, the father will only be named if he is present at the registration and consents to be entered on the certificate, otherwise the column will be blank.

I have some Richard Depledges not too far from Darton -- but probably a generation or so later than yours -- but there may be a connection somewhere?

Richard Depledge "of Burton Smithies" married my 5x Great Aunt Eden Wainwright at Royston in 1754.
I don't have a birthdate for Richard, but Eden was born 1730, so am assuming similar or older.
Richard died in 1758 and was buried at Royston
I have not tracked Richard's family backwards as he is only a side branch

Richard & Eden's children were bapt at Royston and I have made a note that there was another Richard Depledge -- of Notton -- also baptising children at Royston during the same time period.

So it would seem that Richard Depledge was not too unusual name in the wider area at that time