Hi,
I have just started to continue my research and come across your post from almost 15 years ago, so am hoping you will see this message and we can help one another and anyone else researching similar lines.
Thomas Parish Stokes was my great great grandad born on 5th August 1872 in Chirk. His mum was Elizabeth Stokes , but his father is unnamed on his birth certificate and I believe he was brought up by his grandparents John and Caroline Stokes. He married Sarah Jane Evans and did move to Normanton, west Yorkshire, as you thought. He had a son Dennis in 1902 and and then Donald (my great grandad) in 1904 both born in Chirk. They must have moved to Normanton soon after and then George(1906) Norman (1909) Marion (1911) and Ethel (1913) were all born in Normanton.
My grandma Lilian Griffiths ( Nee Stokes) 1926 didn't really know much about her grandad Thomas / Tom. I have been trying to figure out whether there was a chance that Thomas' father could actually have been Henry but from before they married or not. It's lovely to know that he did move in with his mother at one point as I have wondered how he fit in with the larger family she went on to have.
I really hope that we will be able to exchange further information.
Thanks