In 1909, when the youngest Shelby sibling was still an infant, their mother became severely depressed and contemplated suicide. Their mother had a close friend, Charlie Strong, who was around a lot during their upbringing, which resulted in them looking up to him as their ‘uncle’. Thomas pinned Arthur against the ground and began hitting him several times over the head, later winning the fight, although Thomas acknowledged that Arthur let him win. Thomas would also fight with his brothers over cigarettes and one time, when Thomas was 9 and Arthur was 12, they got into a massive physical argument. However, because they were so little, it would take two of them to carry one bucket back to their house. Thomas and his siblings would have to get their fathers beer from The Garrison. While growing up in Small Heath, Birmingham, Thomas carried a razorblade and a screwdriver on him and would tell the other children in the area that he could lay curses, so they were afraid of him and didn't pick on or tease him because of it. It is also heavily implied that their father was a partial Irish Traveller. They also have Irish Traveller ancestry, this is because Polly mentioned that alongside Romani, they should not speak Shelta around Karl Thorne, which is the language spoken by Irish Travellers. It is implied by Thomas’ paternal aunt, Polly Gray, that the Lee Family are the Shelby Family’s kin, through their mother.
Thomas’ parents were both Gypsies, making him and all of his siblings full-blooded Gypsies as well. Over the years, Thomas’ parents welcomed three more children, John, Ada and Finn Shelby. He was born on a boat, in a barge called ‘The January’ and had an elder brother, Arthur Shelby, who he was extremely close with as a child. Thomas Michael Shelby was born in 1890, to Arthur and Mrs. Nothing in comparison to that one minute." One minute of everything at once, and anything before is nothing.
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