Full name: Emma Enock.
Date of birth: Saturday, 13th February, 1847.
Birthplace: 17, Bath Row, Lee Bank, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.
Date of death: October 1868 (aged 21 years).
Place of death: Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
Buried: Buried in St Bartholomew's Church (Edgbaston Old Church) grave yard, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England?
1847 - 17, Bath Row, Lee Bank, Birmingham, England.
Number 17 was located near to the Birmingham Canal.
1850-1853 - Stratford Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England.
According to the 1851 census, the Enocks were
seven entries away from the Angel Inn Hotel. By tying this information in with
the 1889 OS town plan of Birmingham, the Enocks would have lived next-door to
Ladypool School. The house was demolished to make way for St. Agatha's Church
around 1898.
1853 - Balsall Heath Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England.
1855 - 399, Bristol Road "Sussex Place", Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
Demolished between 1956-1966.
1861-1862 - 30, Balsall Heath Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
1862-1868 - 75 Ryland Road (Gothic Cottage/Gothic Lodge), Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
Wednesday, 13th February, 1856 - Monday, 5th March, 1860 Ackworth
School, Pontefract Road, Ackworth, Pontefract, England.
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Admit number: 7674.
Agent: William Southall.
Relatives in attendance: Robinson Enock, Frederick
Enock and Edwin Enock.
Life at Ackworth.
Between the ages of eleven and fifteen, Emma was away from family life for eleven-months of the year, only returning home during the one-month annual summer holiday.
Emma would have only seen her siblings at meeting for worship and possibly spent time together on the path running midway between
the two wings known as "The Flags".
Scholars studied during the day, and
undertook some manual work out-of-hours.
The curriculum between 1856-1860 consisted of:
- Religious study (a chapter from the bible
was read before breakfast)
- English language
- Reading
- Writing
- Spelling (one hour a day)
- English Grammar (in upper classes)
- English History
- Arithmetic
- Housewifery
- Needlework (sewing and knitting)
- Geography (map instruction and the drilling of the rudiments of geography)
- Latin (taught to twenty of the most advanced scholars)
- French (two highest classes - ninth and tenth)
- Art (drawing was taught by a visiting Art Master)
Manual work included:
- Superintendent's Waiter - one girl
for a week in play-hours and about two hours daily in school hours
- Parlour Waiters - two girls to wait
in the housekeeper's room and assist the housekeeper for a fortnight at a
time. One of them all her time, the other all her play-time and for two
hours daily in school-time
- Dining Room Waiters - four girls in
play-time for a week
- Shirt Menders - six girls three days
(three of them four days to assist in the washing) employed both in and
out of school, and two girls who assist them only in play-hours. Change
weekly
- Mantua Maker's Assistant - one girl
all her time for a week
- Constant Menders - two girls five
days for a week
- Menders - six girls all their school
time and nearly all their play-time, from Fourth Day morning to Seventh
Day noon
- Room Sweeters - six girls (four of
whom are out of school each Second Day morning till 11 o'clock.) Employed
in play-hours daily about an hour
- Pie Makers - two girls to assist two
mornings in each week in schooltime
- Two girls to assist in washing the young
children and in cleaning the Wing, a quarter of an hour every morning and
the whole of two evenings weekly. Play-hours
- Laundress' Assistants - four girls on
Fourth Day afternoon. Playhours
- Paring Potatoes - all the girls who
are not in other offices, six mornings in the week, half an hour before
the morning school
- Occasional Employments - the girls
provide the coals for the school. room fires, which they make and mend.
They keep the school-rooms in order, and some of the older ones
occasionally assist the Wing-maid, chamber-maids, &c. They are much
employed in topping and tailing gooseberries, shelling peas and beans,
cutting and paring apples, &c., during the season. They sweep the
flags of their play-ground once a week in fine weather, and have numerous
other incidental employments of a domestic nature, but which it would be
difficult to particularize
Staff at Ackworth School during Robinson's
schooling:
Superintendent: Thomas Pumphrey.
Principal Mistress: Mary Ann Speciall.
Mistresses: Maria King, Ann Wood, Sarah Ann Hodgson, Phebe Jane
Bentley, Lucy Knight, Maria Woodhead, Anna Clark, Mary Caroline Pumphrey, Mary
Elizabeth Robinson, Margaret Sarah Fowler, Anna Jesper.
Mistress on Duty: Charlotte Mabel Tuke.
Housekeeper: Sarah Maddocks.
Mantua-Maker: Rebecca Churchus, S. Thorp, Ann Hodgson, Eleanor Rennison.
Nurse: Mary Williamson.
Principal Tailor: George Frederick Linney.
Principal Shoemaker: Isaac Levitt, James Wilson.
Baker: John Walker.
Additional
information on Ackworth School can be found here.
Dora Enock's will suggests that Emma had an interest in art.
"TO my niece Joan Enock of 39 Priory Gardens Wembley the pair of flower drawings by my aunt Emma Enock."
Page updated 3rd January, 2022.
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