The first record we have is from the 1881 Census when Thomas Osgood was living at Vine Farm, a smallholding of just over two acres in Pirbright Road, Normandy, with his wife Mary and his daughter Lillie as a tenant of Mrs. Elizabeth Collyer. He was described as a "Dealer'. He was the Brother-in-Law of William Deedman of Fairview Farm in Normandy.

In 1882 he was a tenant of land at Shawfields owned by Robert Madgwick. By 1895 he had bought this land. He was still living at Vine Farm as a tenant in 1884 but he later bought it and The Glen, another smallholding of about four acres, also in Pirbright Road.

By 1891 Thomas Osgood had bought another smallholding of just under an acre with two single storey semi-detached cottages called "Spring Cottages (Now Numbered 10 and 11 Pirbright Road). He sold this smallholding, Vine Farm and The Glen to Lord Pirbright in 1896.

By 1891 Thomas Osgood and his family had moved to Shawfields, where they occupied a bungalow on the corner of Shawfields Lane with Shawfields Road. He later left the bungalow and went to live in a house in College Road, Ash. This house was called "Normandy House" and still goes by that name. Also, he owned a bungalow in the same road.

Thomas Osgood