Born and raised in Tullamore, Ireland in 1849 he and his family often came under the scrutiny of their English oppressors. Initially, Thomas came from a large family with several older brothers and sisters, with a few that were younger. Even at a young age he watched as he lost cousins and two of his older brothers to the crown and its agents. It was a constant struggle for the family to remain in their house and on their land, their landlord was constantly attempting to remove them off of their land.
When he was around 12, the potato famine hit. It crushed the common people. While the rich dined and lived, Thomas buried his grandparents, his younger siblings, and his mother. He left school soon after and started working at a leather factory, it was horrifying with long hours for almost no pay. Thomas watched as the bosses and lords worked people to death and had little regard for their safety. He made several good friends and lost a few of them to the machines.
It didn't take long for the young man to become radicalized and take up arms against the English crown. Even while he was working at the tannery he would come into trouble by voicing his hatred of the English and their cronies. One day, Thomas' supervisor came down heavily on the man after a minor accident. The supervisor began beating Thomas severely and Thomas lashed back. He pummeled the supervisor almost to death, to add to the problems, the supervisor was very well connected. Thomas was forced to flee into the hills.
While off in the hills, he began actively fighting and took part in several engagements against British troops. In 1858, he had to flee Ireland. The price on his head had grown jut too high and the patrols were getting too close, so he found passage overseas to America. Thomas, a few of his allies, and the remainder of his family made their way to this young country with tens of thousands of other Irish. The famine took a heavy toll on their homeland, but Thomas knew that the death toll could have been almost nothing had the English crown not exported most of the crops grown in Ireland for profit.
Once in America he, and his family, settled in rural New York in a town along the Underground Railroad that smuggled former slaves to Canada. That was when he first met a person of color and he took them for who they were, yet another human trodden down by those in power. Thomas couldn't return to Ireland to free his own people, but he could stay in America and help these people be free. When war broke out and brother fought brother, Thomas didn't hesitate as he signed up for service in the Northern Army. He joined the 69th New York and battled throughout the entire war will he was shot at Gettysburg. He was lucky to keep life and he spent a year recovering from the wound to his stomach. Once out of the hospital, he tried starting up a business in New York with a few other veterans.
The endeavor did not go well and the company went under which brought ruin to all those involved. Thomas was too ashamed to return home and ended up being one of the many destitute people in one of the biggest cities in America. He was stumbling around, drunk, when he was accosted and drained of his blood. In a cruel twist of irony, he was then embraced and abandoned. The first few nights of his unlife were terrifying to Thomas, he was lost and scared and confused. However, unlike many other Caitiff, he survived.
Thomas spent the next few years butting heads with the Camarilla, which he took for yet another group bent on control. Wishing to learn more about his kind he left New York and began to travel throughout the Midwest, Canada, and along the East Coast. Thomas eventually ended up in San Francisco in 1897 as a full fledged Anarch. Not giving up on a life of fighting, he took his sense of justice and aimed it towards the Camarilla and Sabbat. He spent the next few years fighting along the California coast where the hold on terratory as at its weakest.
It was here that he met Antonio Fazzel, a fellow Anarch, and formed a tight friendship. He, Jennifer Whaler, Antonio, and Samuel Miller worked well together and, with the aid of many others, freed Los Angeles from Camarilla control. Now, they have set their sights on Miami.