His son to Sarah Fletcher, Thomas Henry Valentine was baptised on 3 April 1853 at St Mary's Church, Lambeth.
in 1861 he was charged at Melton Mowbray police court of having two iron crowbars, the property of Gideon Cook.
[1] With William Whalley, basket-maker, his father-in-law, he was committed to the assizes for trial in July 1861.,[2] but was found not guilty.
[4] In the 1870s he traded on Scalford Road in Melton Mowbray as an Organ Builder, Pianoforte and Harmonium Manufacturer.
He filed a petition in the Leicester County Court in October 1879 for the liquidation of his affairs[5] to a liability of £350.