Editing Jimmy Wilde (section)

== Early years ==
Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate states that he was born in the [[Taff Bargoed Valley]] community of [[Pentwyn Deintyr]]) (now known as the Graig), [[Quakers Yard]], [[Treharris]], [[Wales]], in the county borough of [[Merthyr Tydfil]]. His parents later moved to the village of [[Tylorstown]] in the [[Rhondda|Rhondda Valley]] when Wilde was around six years old.<ref name="BBC profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/halloffame/sport/jimmy_wilde.shtml | title= Jimmy Wilde, Boxing legend dubbed the Mighty Atom | work=BBC South East | access-date=2010-03-07}}</ref> In the [[1901 United Kingdom census|1901 census]] eight year old William James Wilde, his parents and his three sisters were all recorded as speaking only [[Welsh language|Welsh]]. His father was a coal miner and Jimmy later worked in the pits himself, being small enough to crawl through gullies impassable to most of his colleagues. He started boxing at the age of 16 in fairground boxing booths, where crowds were amazed by his toughness and ability to knock down much larger opponents, most of whom were local men weighing around 200 lbs. In 1910, Wilde married his wife Elizabeth and was a father the same year. He left [[Tylorstown Colliery]] in 1913.