L to R (back) Rosalind, Graham, Josephine, Connie, Wendy (front) Valerie - Woolacombe, Devon - c1940
Half Siblings
Jan Stanislaw Lubelski (1922-?). |
Date of marriage: 1947.
Place of marriage: St. Andrew's Church, Totteridge Village, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England.
Separated: c1957.
"Later Jo married Jan Lubelski, a charming young Polish man, who'd come over with the Polish Air Force. He was utterly charming and had a heart curdling accent. He was a sculptor but was dogged with inherited mental illness. They had two boys but eventually Jo left him , though they did remain good friends." - Wendy Thomas
Gerald William Bell (1925-1993). |
Date of marriage: 1970 (divorced).
Place of marriage: Worthing, West Sussex, England.
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Peter F Mills. |
Date of marriage: 1990.
Place of marriage: Worthing, West Sussex, England.
1922-1923 - 3, Chardmore Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.
Demolished late 1970s/early 1980s.
1925-1935 - 1, Coniston Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.
1935-1949 - "Fairways", Pine Grove, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England.
"Clearly my father’s business prospered because in about 1937 he and my mum designed a new home in Totteridge, Herts." - Wendy Thomas
1951-1957 - 61, Claremont Road, Highgate, London, England.
Late 1950s-1983 - Evergreen Cottage (No. 1), Ferring Street, Ferring, Worthing, Sussex, England.
1937 - Holmewood School, Woodside Park Road, Finchley, London, England.
"Being in the Forces made Jo & Ro grow up very quickly and they were both competent in Radar. Jo’s toughest time had been when aiming the guns at the enemy, overhead, in Plymouth, and Ro was stationed on the Cornish coast plotting enemy shipping." - Wendy Thomas
"Jo started a chicken farm locally." - Wendy Thomas
Post WW2 - Harrods, Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London.
"When Jo was de-mobbed she came back home to live and commuted each day to Knightsbridge where she’d landed a plum ‘sales’ job at Harrods. Yes, it was necessary to be well spoken and of a good ‘class’ to get a job there. She always looked so smart and had such beautiful hands and just the right manner with the customers." - Wendy Thomas
"Jo then went to live in Sussex and survived by doing Bed & Breakfast and teaching dancing." - Wendy Thomas
Wendy Thomas
"I was closer to Valerie during my early years and the war. But in later years and following the sad death of my second husband, Dr Ronald Thomas, in 1963, Jo became a regular and very supportive part of my life and we were very close."
"I think that my eldest sister, Jo, was definitely the guiding light of my young life at home, she took her seniority (3 years!) to me very seriously."
Arthur Guy Enock - 1957
"(b) As to three equal twentieth parts thereof to divide the same between my four grand-daughters in the following proportions:-
Two equal fifth parts thereof to Josephine and the remaining three equal fifth parts thereof equally between Rosalind Gwendolen and Valerie."
2/5ths of 3/20ths of the residuary estate totals about £647. 9s. 0d.
"Grand-daughter Josephine (did not write) four tier rosewood stand (on castors) 21” x 18” and all contents of shelves and drawers, antique wool sampler and frame from my wife’s family, warming pan, copper kettle, A.H.E.’S oil painting and frame ‘a pool on the avon.’ "
Dorothea Amy Enock - 1959
"(1) TO my dear Brother Arthur Guy Enock of Tower House Chinnor Road Thame Oxfordshire my oak medicine chest and Scotch Bible or should he predecease me then to his grand-daughter Josephine I wish I had some thing of value to give him but I pray God to bless and reward him for all he has done for and been to me since my childhood to the present day"
Joseph Guy Enock - 1984
"C. To my niece Josephine Bell of Evergreen Cottage The Street Ferring Sussex
(i) the lalique glass statuette 'Ruth at the well' complete with its bracket and electrics
(ii) my six piece Royal Crown tea set with saucers and plates
(iii)my coffee set
(iv) glass wine decanter (green)
(v) my wrought iron flower stand (by front door)"
"(b) To divide the remainder of such monies into fifteen equal shares (and the words share or shares in this clause shall always be read as referring to such equal shares) and to hold such shares In Trust for the following beneficiaries absolutely in the amounts stated that is to say:......Two of such shares for my niece Josephine Bell of Evergreen Cottage The Street Ferring Sussex"
2/15ths of the residuary estate (assuming the net value of £40,000) totals about £5,333
Arthur Graham Enock - 1985
"4. I BEQUEATH to each of my four elder daughters Josephine Lubelski Rosalind de Rivas Gwendolen Thomas and Valerie Jones the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) and desire to record that they have benefited during my lifetime from the very full provisions made by me for my first wife"
Page updated 5th, January, 2021.
