It was in that period too that he married, in 1905 in Leith, his bride, Andrina McIntyre and in 1907 they were to have two daughters, one born in Leven and the other in the capital. However, Andrina was to develop TB and in 1910 she died and this seems to have prompted Tom to get away. In November of the year to went South, taking his girls with him, to five seasons at Peter McWilliam's Tottenham and, apart from a brief period during The Great War he never really came home. That was perhaps not least because, first, in 1913 he remarried, his bride literally the girl next door, Katherine Cuthbert, and second in 1915 he joined the Royal Field Artilllery, and was in 1917 was so badly injured by an exploding shell that he lost both his left arm and leg. 

Clearly from then on life became a struggle. Fitted with an artificial leg and on a war-pension he remained living very close to White Hart Lane, where we was well-known, until his premature death at the age of just forty-seven in 1929 to be buried equally locally in Tottenham Cemetery.