Samuel Lait

c1855-1866

Samuel was born in Newbury he was the son of Samuel Henry & Harriet Lait (nee Tooley) who married in Bicester Oxfordshire in 1841, Samuel was a Cooper.

Other children of Samuel & Harriet were:

Samuel 1846-1850                                                                                                                                                                        

George 1848                                                                                                                                                                                    

James 1850                                                                                                                                                                                       

Lucy 1852                                                                                                                                                                                              

Sarah Ann 1861-1862 (buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th March)                                                                    

Henry 1858-1867 (buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd August)                                                                                                                                                                                   

Fred 1863

The family moved to Newbury before George was born in 1848, they lived in Jack of Newbury Street until at least 1861 moving to Granger’s Yard by 1871 and Milton Court by 1881.

Samuel died in 1866 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 13^th January. (GRO records aged at death as 11 and NBI records aged at death as 10)

His mother died aged 65 in 1883 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd November.

His father died aged 74 in 1888 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 21^st July.

Sources:as above