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This is brilliant!  I have been trying for two years to find him!  Were they non-conformists?  I suppose births did not have to be compulsorily registered at that time.  He could have been born in late 1839 or early 1840. 
 I am still trying to verify his death in Cheshire, I cannot find a cooper called Thomas Morris, but I have found a 'watercress man' living in the area in the 1901 census.
  I have found Annie Morris (Thomas's daughter by Priscilla) in 1891 working as a servant, but still no sign of Lillie, but there could be several different spellings of her first name.

Thank you both so much, I was told that this site would be a help.  I will tell my genealogy group to use it for their searches too.

    

In the 1851 census they are living in Albert Place, Tranmere.  In the 1861 census he is down as Morries, living with his mother and brother (father seems to be working away as mother is listed as wife) in the bebington area - Queens Buildings, he now a cooper.  In the 1871 census he is married to Sarah Knox and they have a daughter Mary E born in 1867 and my grt grandmother (nanny) Sarah who was born on 30th November 1870.  By the 1881 census, he is married to Priscilla (Cutler) and living with her son Arthur who has taken the name Morris, Mary E and they have had a Lillie, also an Amy (who is actually Annie).  My grandmother is living in Toxteth at this time with a Sarah Knox and her daughter who is listed as her aunt, but in fact is her grandmother (mother's mother).  You can see how complicated this is!
I have traced the elder children in later census's, but after 1881, he seems to have disappeared.  Priscilla died in 1885 of heart disease and her son Arthur died in 1887.  My nanny Sarah never mentioned her family, but I know she hated the Welsh with a passion, and I think I getting to the reason for it>

Sorry to have gone on and on, but I thought it would help to have all the info.

Many thanks !

Hi Gadget

That would be great.  Thanks!
  crazycaz