Kathleen Florence Tucker

c1871-1918

According to the 1901 census Kathleen was born c1871 in Bath Somerset. The 1911 census records Kathleen’s birthplace as London. No records found yet for Kathleen, until she married in 1893.

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Date: 17^th June 1893

Groom: John Charles Tucker, aged 27, widower, occupation, Baker, abode, 35 Market Street, Newbury

Bride: Kathleen Florence Bray Thomson, aged 22, spinster, abode, 12 Manilla Crescent, Weston Super Mare

Fathers: Henry Tucker, a Corn Porter and Jacob Thomson, a Sawyer

Witnesses: Maria Bray and Agnes Dorothy Tucker

(John Charles was born in 1866, in Hampstead Norris, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Hannah Tucker (nee Wernham) who were married in 1861 (marriage registered in Wantage). John Charles married Mary Jane Buxey in 1885, in Newbury, they had two daughters, Florence Mary in 1886 and Agnes Kate, in 1889, Agnes Kate died in 1890. John was widowed in 1892.)

John and Kathleen had the following four children:

Henry Victor, born 19^th June 1897, in Wantage, Berkshire.

Geoffrey Braybrooke, born 6^th October 1902, baptised 23^rd November 1902, at St Peter, Brighton, Sussex

Kathleen Charlotte Irene, born 22^nd September 1907, baptised 1^st December 1907 at St Peter, Brighton, Sussex

A stillborn son born 1910, laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 13^th June.

The 1901 census records John (34), a Baker & Shopkeeper, Kathleen (30), Florence (14) and Henry Victor (3), living at 83 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, Sussex

By 1911 John (44), a Baker & Confectioner, Kathleen (38), Henry (13), Geoffrey (8) and Kathleen (3), were living at 9 Berkeley Road, Westfields, Newbury, Berkshire. Also record in the household were two boarders.

Kathleen died aged 46, on the 7^th November 1918. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 13^th November. (Abode at time of death, 2 Bartholomew Terrace, Newbury)

The 1921 census records John (54) as a Baker and Confectioner, living at 2 Bartholomew Terrace, Newbury with his children, Henry (42), who was out of work and Kathleen (13).

John Charles died aged 61 on the 19^th October 1927, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery, with his wife Kathleen Florence, on the 22^nd October (Abode at time of death, 15 Pound Street, Newbury).

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 14^th November 1918

TUCKER – Kathleen Florence, the dearly beloved wife of John Charles Tucker, who passed peacefully away on Thursday 7^th, aged 46 years. – Thy will be done seems hard to say.

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