Hi Jennie,
I'm not sure if my grandfather, Thomas Thwaite, is the one you are looking for. I don't know the town or city of his birth, but it was in England, and he was 88 when he died in Fall River, MA, in November of 1960, which would mean he was born in 1872. He was married to Martha May Kells, who was from Canada. They had six children. Thwaite is an unusual name - we don't see it very often.