​​Thomas married Ann Silvester (-1905) at St. Paul's Church, Croxton, Staffordshire on 26 July 1883. He was residing at Ashley Farm, Market Drayton, Staffordshire, at the time of the wedding. Ann had been born in Broughton, Staffordshire on 4 October 1864, but had wider familial connections to Great Packington.

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Thomas and Ann had 6 children:

• Frances Elizabeth Booth (20 August 1883-?). Baptised twice, firstly in a Methodist Church at Market Drayton, Staffordshire on 25 August 1883 and secondly in the Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist, Ashley, Staffordshire on 6 March 1884. Married Charles Edward Dunning of Meriden in Great Packington. 1 son. Divorced 1911. Listed as Housekeeper to her sister 'Molly' and brother in law Arthur in the 1939 Register. Emigrated to Australia in 1948, when she was 65 years old. 

• Annie Booth (1855-?). Disappears from records after 1911 census. 

• Alfred John Booth (1887-). Farmer. Married Elsie Mary Burman of Bickenhill, Warwickshire. Moved to Bickenhill.

• Arthur Henry Booth (16 June 1889-1972). Farmer. Married Alice Maud Gater of Audley, Staffordshire.

• Mary 'Molly' Beacall Booth (14 April 1890-?). Married Arthur Lionel Barker, an Australian man who worked for Thomas as a Pupil Farmer when the 1911 census was taken. The wedding was reported on in the Coventry Standard newspaper. 

• Thomas Wilkinson Booth (22 April 1894-5 October 1918). Died during the First World War and his life story can be read on the Military -> WW1 Soldiers/Sailors page of this website. ​

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When the 1891 census was enumerated, Thomas and his young family were living at Ashley Farm, Staffordshire, and by ​when the 1901 census was enumerated, the family had moved to Outwoods Farm, Great Packington where they employed a farm servant.

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Thomas is recorded in the 1904 Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire as a Farmer and in 1905 he was elected an Overseer of the Poor for Great Packington, alongside Lawrence James Arnold. He also held various elected church and local offices up until the late 1920s and can often be found writing into the local press about countryside issues or in newspaper reports from church and council meetings.​​​ He was particularly known for campaigning about the state of local and rural roads. Thomas was also active in the farming community as a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Hampton in Arden Famer's Union and the Meriden and Packington Horticultural Society. In 1910, he was a judge of the children's sports events at the annual Meriden Flower Show. 

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Thomas' wife died in 1905, leaving him a widower. ​When the 1911 census was enumerated, Thomas and his younger children remained at Outwoods Farm, Great Packington. Thomas' eldest son Alfred John Booth had left the family farm and was farming in the nearby parish of Bickenhill, Warwickshire.

His eldest daughter Frances Elizabeth Booth had married Charles Edward Dunning, and Frances and the couples 3 year old son Reginald 'Rex' Charles Dunning were living in Thomas' household at the Outwoods Farm in 1911. Charles himself can be found in the 1911 census living with his parents and siblings on the family farm in Meriden, Warwickshire. The couple divorced on 27 October 1911 on the grounds of desertion, with the case heard at the Petty Sessions in Coventry, Warwickshire. When the divorce was granted, Charles was required to pay 15 shillings a week for the maintenance of their son and all legal costs. 'Rex' became a Dairy Farmer at the nearby parish of Fillongley, Warwickshire and married Emily Madge Burman of Meriden. Neither Frances or Charles ever remarried. 

Also in 1911, the Kenilworth Advertiser reported that Thomas senior won the over 40s 100 yard race at an event held at Packington Park by the Earl of Aylesford to celebrate the coronation of King George V. He must have been a fit man, beating entrants 15 years his junior! During the other male sport events, his son Thomas won the high jump competition at a height of 4 feet 10 inches and came 2nd in the 400 yards race.

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In 1913, Thomas Snr. served as foreman of the jury called to an inquest into the death of local farmer Lawrence John Arnold, who it was concluded died due to an accident when he was thrown from his horse. Thomas had worked alongside Lawrence as they both served as Overseers of the Poor and he undoubtedly knew the deceased well. The Coventry Herald newspaper reported the death and inquest. Thomas is recorded as saying that 'Mr. Arnold had been a great favourite in the district, a good farmer, and a dear friend to them all [the jury]'.

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Thomas remarried to Annie Elizabeth Warden (1864-1958) of Meriden, at the church in her home parish in 1915. ​​​​​During the Great War, Thomas was elected to the Meriden and District War Relief committee and contributed to local fundraising events like organising the raffle at an Agricultural Jumble Sale, held on 25 November 1916 at Meriden Hall. He tragically lost a son, also named Thomas Wilkinson Booth, in 1918. His life story is on this website at Military -> WWI Soldiers/Sailors. When the Bishop of Coventry dedicated war memorials in the churches of Great and Little Packington in 1920, which included the name of his son, Thomas assisted in the ceremony. After the dedication, 2 buglers from the 1/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment sounded the Last Post.

 

In 1919, the elder Thomas was covered in an article in the Coventry Herald newspaper, discussing his views on farming. ​When the 1921 census was enumerated, Thomas was living with his wife at Little Packington. He can be found in electoral rolls throughout the 1910s and 1920s, for Warwickshire.  

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In 1922, Thomas served as an official responsible for judging the hedging competition at the Hampton-in-Arden Farmer's Union annual competition, held in Berkswell, Warwickshire. At the event, another Great Packington Man 'A. Box' who was employed at the Dairy Farm won 3rd place in a ploughing competition. Two years later at the funeral of Charles Wightwick Finch, 8th Earl of Aylesford, in 1924, Thomas walked immediately behind the coffin into St. James Church holding his coronet, having been the co-church warden at St. James Church alongside the Earl for several years. 

Thomas can next be found in a report in the Coleshill Chronicle from 9 October 1926, where he was advocating for the building of affordable housing for agricultural workers in the district and describing the current conditions of overcrowding. On 1 August 1931 he can be found in an article in the Coleshill Chronicle, arguing and voting for an increase in workmen's wages at a meeting of the Solihull Rural District Council. He stepped down from his role later in the year and was replaced by Joseph Clarkson.

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When the 1939 Register was taken, Thomas was living on Fillongley Road, Meriden, and was incapacitated. He resided wih his second wife and 2 male nurses were also in the household. ​​Thomas died on 17 April 1940. He was survived by his second wife, who lived to the grand age of 94 years old, and passed away in 1958 at Birmingham, Warwickshire. ​Thomas' death was reported in the Coventry Standard newspaper, with an obituary and funeral announcement. Probate was granted to his sons Alfred John Booth and Arthur Henry Booth.