Date of birth: Tuesday, 5th June, 1739.
Birthplace: Radway, Warwickshire, England.
Date of death: Sunday, 7th August, 1785 (aged 46 years).
Place of death: Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
Buried: Friends burial ground in Warwick High Street.
Signature:
(née Taylor?)
(1704-1776)
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Betty Enock (née Woodman) (1735-1806). |
Date of marriage: Tuesday, 5th May, 1767.
Place of marriage: Quaker Meeting House, Bristol, England (The Friary Buildings, Quakers Friars).
1739: Radway, Warwickshire, England.
1767-1779: Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
1781-1785: Alveston, Warwickshire, England.
1767: Flax Dresser.
The flax dresser used a hackle to separate the coarse bit of flax in preparation for the spinner.
1777: Mealman.
A mealman was the middleman between the miller and the baker, making his money by commission. A mealman could earn anything between £33 and £66 per annum. Joseph's wage was enough to cover his children's education expenses which totalled £25. 4s. per annum between 1781 and 1784.
1779: Operated a sacking business.
1778-1781: Thomas Whitehead and Joseph Enock - Corn and Meal Business - Alveston Mills, Warwickshire.
"Lease for 21 years from Newsham Peers late of Alveston, but now of Southampton, Hants., esq., to Joseph Enock and Thomas Whitehead, of Warwick, mealmen, of the watercorn mills called Alveston Mills, with the dressing mills, and five floodgates for catching fish and other purposes, land called the Dennys and Mill Lane and all appurtenances (with certain exceptions), 25th November 1778."
Alveston mills pictured in the early 1900s. Mill Lane lies behind the mill
Maps showing the location of Alveston mills (the black block below the word mill, and above 19). The mills had fell in to ruins as early as the 1880s (click to enlarge).
The area as it looked on the 28th March, 2016. The mill would have stood roughly by the tree on the right hand side. (click to enlarge).
Joseph and Betty were among the first parents to send their children to Ackworth School, a Quaker school established in 1779 for those "not in affluence." The following education costs should help to give an idea of Joseph's income.
Education Costs.
1781-1784: £25. 4s.
1785: £16. 6s.
Page updated 15th October, 2023.