Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Eliza Ann, born 1863 in Syston, Leicestershire, and the late Thomas Nathan Adcock a Bricklayer, born 1862 in Syston, Leicestershire. Thomas was a Stockroom Hand and was born in 1894 in Syston, Leicestershire, his siblings were Annie, a Hosiery Griswold Knitter, born 1883, Lily a Milliner, born 1887, Nellie a Milliner, born 1890 and Elsie a Milliner, born 1892, all the children were born in Syston, Leicestershire. In 1911 the family home was at North Street, Syston, Leicestershire.