From Grant Collard, Sep 2000.
Thomas Weeks Jr was born on 25 March 1850 in Dudley, Worcester, England, the son of Thomas Weeks Sr and Rebecca Wakelam. At the time of his birth he had an older sister Hannah and would eventually have siblings Emma, Ephraim, Rachel, Heber, Israel, and Martha. He was born in the coal mining section of Kates Hill in Dudley which was a highly industrialized and mining area about 8 miles west of Birmingham in central England; the Dudley area at his birth had about 38,000 people.
The 1851 Census lists the family at #86 St Johns Road where his father Thomas 29 was a coal miner with his wife Rebecca 26 and daughter Hannah 2 and son Thomas 1. His father had joined the LDS church in 1850 and eleven years later the family now consisting of seven children immigrated the United States.
They left from Liverpool on 23 April 1861 on the ship Underwriter with a Mormon immigrant company of 624 people and arrived in New York City on 24 May 1861 at the time the Civil War was in progress. The family journeyed to Kewanee, Illinois where evidently they had friends from England. Since Thomas Jr was 11, years old at the time it is not known the extent of schooling that he received in England and in Kewanee.
In Kewanee his father continued as a coal miner in some of the local mines. His mother died in 1864. In the 1870 census of Kewanee he is listed along with the family as Thomas age 20.
He married Mary Ann Dixon and she died in childbirth. Then on 16 Sept 1880 he married Sarah Jenkins at Streator in central Illinois. At Streator their three children were born: Bertha, Elmer and Edgar.
Thomas worked as a mine inspector. Thomas died at the age of 61 on l2 August 1911 at the St Johns Hospital in Springfield and was buried in Bloomington. Sarah later lived in Evanston evidently with her widowed daughter Bertha, and people remember her as being quite healthy and active.
She died in the Masonic hospital in Chicago of arterio-sclerosis on 23 January 1950 at the age of 93. Her funeral was at the First Presbyterian church of Arlington Heights and she was buried in the Oakridge cemetery at Hillside, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

CENSUS: 1870 Thomas Weeks (Listed under father)
Kewanee, Henry, IL M593-230, p27
Thos Jr 20 M At Home Engl ****

CENSUS: 1880 Thomas Weaks
Streator, LaSalle, IL T9-0222 page 82B
Name Sex Age Rel Mar Occp BPlace Self Fathr Mothr
Thomas Weaks M 30 Other Eng, Eng, Eng Coal Miner
(listed under John Dixon household)

CENSUS: 1890 - partial census year.

CENSUS: 1900 Thomas Weeks
Martin township, McLean IL, Supv 7, ED 112, Sheet 8B, Lines 93 to 97
On-line Image 16 of 40. School Street
Name Rel Sex MM Year Age Mar Place Self Fathr Mothr
Thomas Head M Mar 1850 50 20 ENG ENG ENG
Sarah wife F Oct 1859 40 20 OH Wales Wales
Bertha L dau F Oct 1881 18 single IL ENG OH
Elmer son M Jun 1883 16 single IL ENG OH
Edgar L son M Jul 1886 13 single IL ENG OH

CENSUS: 1910 Thomas Weeks
Bloomington, McLean, IL, ED 85, Sheet 20B, line 87 to 91.
Roll T624-306, taken 4/28/1910. On-line Image 40 of 53. S. Daton? Street
Name Rel Sex Age Mar Place Self Fathr Mothr
Thomas Head M 60 M2 30yr ENG ENG ENG Emmg 1864. Inspector, Miner
Sarah wife F 50 M1 30yr OH Wales Wales
Bertha L dau F 27 single IL ENG OH None
Elmer son M 25 single IL ENG OH None
Edgar L son M 23 single IL ENG OH Farm Laboror

From castlegarden.org
First name Last name Occupation Age Sex Arrived Origin Ship
Ephraim Weeks Child, Youngster 7 M 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Hannah Weeks Child, Youngster 11 F 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Heber Weeks Child, Youngster 3 M 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Isreal Weeks Infant 10 m M 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Rachel Weeks Child, Youngster 5 F 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Rebecca Weeks Unknown 36 F 22 May 1861 England Underwriter
Thomas Weeks Child, Youngster 10 M 22 May 1861 England Underwriter ****
Thomas Weeks Miner 35 M 22 May 1861 England Underwriter

• Married: 16 SEP 1880 in Streator, La Salle, IL
• Note: Cert 1571, Book 1 page 121 (have a copy) ^{6 3 7}

1. Bertha Lois WEEKS b: 11 OCT 1881 in Streator, La Salle, IL
2. Charles Elmer WEEKS b: 13 JUN 1883 in Streator, Lasalle, Illinois
3. Edgar Lloyd WEEKS b: 17 JUL 1886 in Streater, LaSalle, IL

• Married: 28 APR 1877 in Streater, LaSalle, IL ⁸

1. Title: Weeks, Aniela - email starting 4/29/01
   Abbrev: Weeks, Aniela - email starting 4/29/01
   Note:
   Thomas Weeks/ John Jenkins email
2. Title: Luft, Margaret Calhoun, chart, c 1980
   Abbrev: Luft, Margaret Calhoun, chart, c 1980
   Text: On chart by Margaret Calhoun Luft, abt 1980, copy with Carol Luft Jones.
3. Title: GEDCOM File : weeks-Grant-Collard-0504.ged
   Abbrev: GEDCOM File : weeks-Grant-Collard-0504.ged
   Text: Imported 223 Weeks names from Grant Collard in ID
   Date: 30 MAY 2004
4. Title: Weeks, Thomas b 25 Mar 1850, wife Mary Dixon
   Abbrev: Weeks, Thomas b 25 Mar 1850, wife Mary Dixon
   Note:
   Batch 170516
   Note: Mary Ann Dixon wife
5. Title: Death certificate
   Abbrev: Death certificate
   Note: For named indivdual.
   Quality: 3
6. Title: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763 - 1900
   Author: State of IL
   Abbrev: State of IL
   Publication: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/genealogy/marrsrch.html
   Abbrev: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763 - 1900
   Note: WEEKS, THOMAS JENKINS, SARAH LA SALLE 09/16/1880 1 /121 1571
7. Title: Marriage Certificate (of named individual)
   Abbrev: Marriage Certificate (of named individual)
   Note: Tho Weeks - Sarah Jenkins, 1880
8. Title: Marriage Certificate (of named individual)
   Abbrev: Marriage Certificate (of named individual)
   Note: Copy in my files