Kate Theresa Samuels

  She was born in Kingsclere in 1871 (4Q). Her parents were James Wait, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Sarah, née Herbert.
She grew up in Well Street, Burghclere, with her siblings Edwin born in 1869, Cassie Sabina born in 1873 and Frederick born in 1880.

From the 1891 census she was employed, aged 19, as a housemaid working in the household of the Italian sculptor, Mario Raggi, at 158 Clapham Road, Lambeth. He was a well-known sculptor, born in Carrara, Italy, and he settled in England, setting up a workshop at Cumberland Market in North London. He received many major commissions, e.g. memorials to Benjamin Disraeli at Parliament Square and Gladstone at Albert Square in Manchester.

The next record is her marriage to Henry Samuels, a GWR railway worker, in 1899 in Highclere. They settled at Daisy Cottages, 1 Railway Road, Newbury, and a daughter, Irene May Samuels, was born on 26 November 1904. They continued to live the rest of their lives in Railway Road .

Theresa died on 13 October 1930 aged 58 and she was buried on 17 October: probate to her husband Harry Samuels, railway labourer.

Her husband remarried in 1934 to Wilhelmina Willmott and he died on 12 December 1949, aged 79 years. He was buried in the same plot with Kate Theresa on 14 December.
Their daughter Irene May married Leonard F. Oliver in 1934 (10) and she died in 1987 in Reading.
Mrs. P. Code NAl2, page 51
Sources: Birth Index 4Q 1871; her parents' marriage 4Q 1868; 1881 to 1911 census; Death Index 4Q 1930 and BBI.

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