Robert Doeg Enock - 1919
Date of birth: Thursday, 9th May, 1895.
Birthplace: Rosedale, Sherbourne Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
Date of death: Wednesday, 3rd May, 1967 (aged 71 years). Informant: Clive Enock.
Place of death: 21, Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
Cause of death: Coronary Thrombosis due to Coronary Disease.
Buried/cremated: Cremated and scattered on Tuesday, 9th May, 1967, in the Gardens of Remembrance in Kettering Crematorium. Has an entry in the Kettering Book of Remembrance, no headstone exists.
Signature:
Lilian Alma Enock (née Bloxham) (1898-1981). |
Date of marriage: Saturday, 6th September, 1924.
Place of marriage: Acocks Green Baptist Church, Yardley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
1895-1909 - Rosedale, Sherbourne Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
Occupants (1901 census): Robinson Enock, Eleanor Amelia Enock, Amy Clara Elizabeth Enock, Robert Doeg Enock, Gertrude Margaret Enock, Laura Hopwood Enock (sister-in-law), Maud Muriel Enock (niece).
Servants in 1901: Nellie Birch.
Photos of Sherbourne Road dating from the early 1900s. Rosedale can be seen between the lamppost and the white building in the top photograph, and the front gate can be seen on the far right of the bottom photograph.
Aerial view of Acocks Green c1950. Rosedale is highlighted red.
Rosedale was demolished and replaced by flats in the 1960s.
c1910-c1915 - Howard Villas (left hand side), Stockfield Road, South Yardley, Birmingham, England.
Occupants (1911 census): Eleanor Amelia Enock, Marianne Davis (uncle George Davis's mother), Amy Clara Elizabeth Enock, Robert Doeg Enock, Gertrude Margaret Enock, Elsie Martin (boarder).
The Enock family lived in the left hand portion of Howard Villas. Photograph taken in August 2014 (click to enlarge).
c1915-1924 - 14 & 16, Augusta Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England. Family owned both houses - sold for £550 in 1929.
Occupants (electoral rolls): Eleanor Amelia Enock, Amy Clara Elizabeth Enock, Robert Doeg Enock, Gertrude Margaret Enock.
Number 16, shown here in May 2016, is the house with purple curtains.
1924-c1936 - 34 (now 54), Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
Robert bought this house with a £400 mortgage with the Birmingham Municipal Bank.
Occupants (electoral rolls): Robert Doeg Enock, Lilian Alma Enock, Muriel Enock, Clive Enock, Hazel Enock.
Number 34, shown here in May 2016, is the second house from the left(click to enlarge).
Dudley Park Road viewed from Warwick Road c1930. Number 34 is the third house up on the left (click to enlarge).
1934-1939 - 74 Heaton Road, Solihull, Birmingham, England.
Occupants (electoral rolls): Robert Doeg Enock, Lilian Alma Enock, Muriel Enock, Clive Enock, Hazel Enock, John Maxwell Enock, Emily Bloxham (mother-in-law - 1935-1936).
1939 - 17, Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
Lodging with Hayden and Kathleen Lock.
1940-1967 - 21, Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
Owned from new and originally sat on just over one-third of an acre of land. 21 was the last house on the road until Lilian sold just over half of the land in the late 1960s.
Occupants: Robert Doeg Enock, Lilian Alma Enock, Muriel Enock (1940-1956), Clive Enock (1940-1947 - 1955-1956 with June Enock and Graham Enock), Hazel Enock (1940-1957), Max Enock (1940-1956).
July 1905 - Friday, 27th July, 1910 - King Edward VI: Camp Hill Grammar School for Boys, Stratford Road, Camp Hill, Birmingham, England (now occupied by Muath Trust).
Fees:
1905: 1 term only - £1 12s. 6.
1906-1907: 3 terms - £4 10s.
1908: 2 terms only - £3
1908-1910: Elected Foundation Scholar
1905: Class XIV: Mr. W. L. Williams / Set C5: Mr. S. W. Richards
1906: Class XIII & XIV: Mr. W. L. Williams / Set C4: Rev. G. H. Moore. Prize List: French
1907: Class X: Mr. A. F. Hernaman / Set C3: Mr. W. L. Williams. Class VIII & Set C2: Mr. G. J. Cook. Class VIa: Rev. D. Johnson / Set B3: Rev. G. H. Moore. Prize List: General Work
1908: Class VB & Set B2: Mr. W. B. Ainsworth
1921 - The Municipal Technical School, Birmingham.
"Father had a difficult teenage since his father died when he was still at school. Thereafter, he was expected to support the family - mother and two sisters - on his own. As far as I am aware, he managed to get a menial job at Stewarts & Lloyds, which enabled him to train for a career in Iron and Steel production." - Clive Enock.
1910-1939 - Stewarts and Lloyds, Broad Street Chambers, Broad Street, Birmingham, England
"At the turn of the century, A. & J. Stewart and Menzies Limited were well established in all branches of the trade and were the largest tube-making concern in Scotland. Because of the limitations of the market in Scotland a considerable export trade had been built up over the years, particularly for gas and water mains. In England, Lloyd and Lloyd occupied a similar premier position in the industry, their speciality being screwed and socketed tubes.
By 1903 the two firms were beginning to be acutely conscious of each other’s presence, but instead of entering into unbridled competition they took stock of their relative positions. They found that their interests were complementary, not antagonistic, so that amalgamation was the logical outcome, and this came into being on 1st January 1903.” - Taken from Stewarts and Lloyds Limited 1903-1953 published by the Publicity Department of Stewarts and Lloyds Limited in 1953.
Robert's father, Robinson Enock, joined Lloyd and Lloyd in 1860 and was their only clerk for many years. He went on to become an accountant/book keeper, before retiring in 1906.
Positions:
1910-1915: Junior Clerk/Clerk
Salary in 1910: £13 (equivalent to £1,757 in 2023).
1915-1919: Great War Service
1919-c1927: Cashier
Cashier for Stewarts and Lloyds' collieries.
Salary 1919/20: £309 / 1925/26: £376 (equivalent to £16,036 - £28,904 in 2023)
c1927-1939: Buyer
Buyer for Stewarts and Lloyds' collieries (Kilnhurst, High Hazel, and Parkgate in Rotherham / Silkstone in Barnsley / High Moor in Killamarsh) until they were sold to the Tinsley Park Colliery Company in 1936.
Salary 1927/28: £431 / 1938/39: £625 (equivalent to £34,395 - £51,336 in 2023)
1939-1962 - Stewarts and Lloyds, Weldon Road, Corby, Northamptonshire, England
1939-1962: Head Buyer for Corby Works.
"When Mr. R. D. Enock of Corby goes "shopping" his purchases may include anything from a heavy diesel locomotive to a £1 million excavator. As chief buyer for Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd., Corby, he is responsible for supplying the mineral company with all its needs." - Evening Telegaph - June 10, 1958.
"He eventually became Head Buyer at the Corby works. I have been told that he was very effective in that job. He was proud of the fact that he had purchased the largest walking dragline in the country." - Clive Enock.
Robert gave a number of talks regarding his time as a buyer at Corby, a number of which were reported in the local press.
Salary 1940/41: £625 / 1960/61: £2,162 (equivalent to £46,581 - £63,745 in 2023)
Salary 1940/41: £625 / 1960/61: £2,162 (equivalent to £46,581 - £63,745 in 2023)
1962-1964 - J. A. Perkins & Co. (Northampton) Ltd, Northamptonshire, England
1962-1964: Engineering Business Advisor
Salary 1962/1963: £887 / 1963/64: £1,104 (equivalent to £22,050 - £26,560 in 2023).
Great War
Enlisted: Curzon Hall, Birmingham.
Date: Thursday, 9th December, 1915.
Unit: 2nd Garrison Battalion (re-designated 11th Garrison Battalion in 1918).
Regiment: Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Regimental Number: 25430.
Rank: Sergeant.
First joined for duty: Tuesday, 25th January, 1916.
Place: Norton Barracks, Worcester.
Embarked: Southampton, England (Monday, 21st August, 1916).
Disembarked: Le Havre, France (Tuesday, 22nd August, 1916).
Record:
Sunday, 15th October, 1916: appointed unpaid Lance Corporal.
Sunday, 22nd April, 1917: appointed Lance Corporal (paid).
Tuesday, 12th June, 1917: appointed Corporal.
Saturday, 27th October, 1917: granted leave to UK from 26th October 1917 to 5th November, 1917.
Thursday, 24th January, 1918: granted class I pay.
Saturday, 6th April, 1918: appointed Lance Sergeant (paid).
Thursday, 25th April, 1918: appointed Sergeant (paid).
Wednesday, 20th November, 1918: leave to UK.
Monday, 10th February, 1919: to England for Demob (GL).
11th (Garrison) Battalion.
Formed as 2nd (Garrison) Battalion at Portland in July 1916, and moved to France in the same month where it then remained. Renamed the 11th (Garrison) Bn on 13 July 1918.
WW2
29th June 1940 - 31st December 1944 - Home Guard
Robert also served as a special constable with the Northants. Constabulary.
Robert met Lilian Alma Bloxham at Acocks Green Baptist Church, where they were both members of the church choir, sometime towards the end of the Great War.
Lilian, the only child of Charles Henry & Emily Bloxham, was born on the 2nd September 1898 in Aston, Birmingham. The family relocated to Knowle c1900, where they took up residence in Kixley Lane, and later in Station Road. She was educated at Knowle C of E, after which she studied literature at college.
By 1919 the family had moved to 309 Stockfield Road in Yardley, and Lilian was working as a teacher at Ada Street Council School. She was a member of the choir at Acocks Green Baptist church, and acted as organist at Red Hill Baptist Church.
Between 1921 and 1924, she worked at Church Road Council School.
Music
"They had regular social evenings at home, most of which were musical. Mother played the piano and father the cello. I remember hearing them singing and playing." - Clive Enock.
Robert was Choirmaster at Acocks Green Baptist Church, and a member of Birmingham Festival Choral Society.
"Mr R. D. Enock, head buyer for the Corby Group of Stewarts and Lloyds, advised the members of the choir at Kettering Henry Gotch Secondary Modern School prizegiving yesterday: "To keep it up. It is a very interesting and rewarding hobby.” He told the school that he had sung in choirs under such famous conductors as Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Thomas Beecham.” - Evening Telegraph - November 9, 1956
Robert sang bass for the Fuller Baptist Church in Kettering.
Theatre
Robert joined board of directors at the Northampton Repertory Players in September 1958. Robert was also an active member of the Kettering and District Repertory Society.
Model Engineering
Member of the Kettering Model Engineering Society. Became joint secretary in 1949.
Robert featured in the Market Harborough Advertiser & Midland Mail - 15th April 1949.
"Clearly father had a great deal of patience, particularly if he was in the middle of making something, as in the model railway in the loft. He had little practical training and learned as he went along and learned well. He joined the local model engineering society and also gained invaluable experience from them. He was willing to invest in his chosen hobby and had a brick built workshop constructed in the garden when we moved to Kettering. This was kitted out with a lathe, a drilling machine and a milling machine." - Clive Enock.
Robert crafted a number models using blueprints from Stewarts & Lloyds.
"I still have one of those models in the creating of which the only thing he bought in was the electric motor. Everything else was made from scratch. He always worked from full sized, fully detailed plans of the particular model that he wanted to make. These plans were obtained through his job as a buyer for Stewarts and Lloyds to be studied before the life sized item was bought by him for use by the company." - Clive Enock
Locomotives
Wagons
Track - Heaton Road
Track - Ridgway Road
Mountaineering
Robert was a member of the Midland Association of Mountaineers, and in December 1931 he gave a lecture to the association entitled "A Two Hundred Mile Tramp in Switzerland".
"The Clerk of the Weather" - Robert in Chiusa, Italy.
Religion
Deacon and Choirmaster at Acocks Green Baptist Church during the 1920/30s.
District Chairman of Toc H..
Other Interests
Governor at Kettering Henry Gotch Secondary Modern School.
In 1952, Robert stood for election as a local Conservative councillor for the Pipers Hill ward of Kettering, but lost to the Labour's Harold Taylor by 178 votes.
The election results published in the Mercury & Herald - Friday, 4th April, 1952.
He did, however, become councillor for the St. Peter's ward of Kettering in 1958, a role he held until his death in 1967.
1966-67: Chairman of the Northamptonshire County Planning Committee.
Robert Doeg Enock.
28th July 1967.
Gross value of estate: £12,852 4s.(worth £221k in 2017).
Net value of estate: £12,624 15s. (worth £217k in 2017).
Executor: Westminster Bank Limited.
Witnesses: Geoffrey Walshaw and Dorothy Walshaw (19, Ridgway Road,
Kettering).
'Upon trust to pay the income from my residuary estate unto my said wife Lilian Alma Enock.'
Lilian Enock.[27]
19th June 1981.
Gross value of estate:
£3,591.77 (worth £13k in 2017).
Net value of estate: £2,930.48 (worth £10.5k in 2017).
Executors: Clive
Robin Enock and Hazel
Mary Lochhead.
Witnesses: U. M. Stokes.
Wills connected with Robert & Lilian Enock.
Eleanor Amelia Enock - 1933
"I appoint Robert Doeg Enock of 34 Dudley Park Road Acocks Green and Max W. Jacobi 12 Dudley Park Road Acocks Green to be the EXECUTORS of this my Will. I direct my Executors to pay my just Debts and Funeral and Testamentary Expenses. I GIVE AND BEQUEATH to my eldest daughter Amy Clara Elizabeth Enock my piano in rosewood case by “Mercur”Berlin”. I give to my youngest daughter Gertrude Margaret Enock the whole of the contents of 45 Homecroft Road Yardley with the exception of the piano mentioned above. The Residue of my estate if any after the foregoing bequests have been satisfied. I give and bequeath in the following manner:- to my grandchildren Muriel Joyce Enock and Clive Robin Enock the sum of Fifty pounds (£50) each any residue then remaining to be divided equally between my daughters Amy Clara Elizabeth Enock and Gertrude Margaret Enock share and share alike. Any legacy which may be rendered void by the earlier death of any of the above mentioned beneficiaries to be distributed at the absolute discretion of my brother James Edward Wilson or in the event of my brother’s death of my son Robert Doeg Enock. WITNESS my hand this day of 12 May 1931.
Eleanor Amelia Enock
SIGNED by the above named testator a her last Will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names and witnesses
AGNES ANNE BLIZARD (Spinster) Manuel Cottage Stow on the Wold
FLORENCE BRIGGS (Widow) Tufa Mount Willard Rd Yardley Birmingham
I WISH to revoke the legacies in the foregoing Will to my grandchildren Muriel Joyce Enock and Clive Robin Enock and for the sum previously bequeathed to them totalling £100 (one hundred pounds) to go into the residue of my estate and to be dealt with accordingly."
Net value of estate: £790. 3s. 4d.
Expenses amounted to £42 6s. 8d. which was deducted equally from both shares giving a net value of £382 4s. 5d.
Madge's share: Mages share of the estate was made up of:
The 300 Stewarts and Lloyds shares produced a total of £55 4s. 2d. in dividends between May 1933 and October 1936, and advances of account totalled £31 19s. 9d., bringing the total to £405 8s. 9d in December 1936. Robert transferred control of the shares to Madge on the 18th December 1936, and on the 29th April 1937 he paid the balance of £41 13s. 9d. in cash.
Amy's share: Amy’s share of the estate is slightly more complicated to follow, but included:
The 75 Stewart and Lloyds deferred shares were sold for £77 9s. 9d. in December 1933, and the profit was deposited in the Birmingham Municipal Bank account.
The interest generated by remaining stocks and shares was automatically paid into the Birmingham Municipal Bank account where it received additional interest. Robert was advised not to send the money to Australia in case the authorities took control of it, so reimbursements were sent when required. In 1955 the account totalled £395. 16s. 10d., and in 1964 the total had grown to £622 18s 2d..
Madge felt she had been left completely in the dark about Eleanor's will, and felt she was owed further monies. In January 1948 she employed a solicitor to investigate the distribution of the will.
"We act for your sister, Mrs Gertrude Margaret Wildridge of 47 Duke Street, Sutton Coldfield. We understand that you are the Executor under the Will of your late Mother. Our client instructs us that though she has received shares in Stewart & Lloyds from you she has never received any Executorship Account in connection with the matter, and we shall be glad if you will please let us have such an Account, showing how the Estate is being distributed and whether there are any further monies due to our client." - Bailey Cox, Bosworth & Co to Robert Doeg Enock - 13th January 1948
"I was amazed to receive your letter of the 13th instant, written on the instructions of my younger sister, and regret I have been unable to deal with this matter earlier.
The Executorship Account in connection with this estate was shown to my sister at the time the estate was closed, together with full details, and she expressed her complete satisfaction then at the distribution which was made equally between herself and our older sister.
Perhaps you have not been advised that my mother died more than 15 years ago and this is the very first suggestion in any way that my sister was not entirely satisfied with the arrangements then carried out. She has never even suggested such a matter to me either verbally or otherwise and I completely fail to understand why an imputation should now be made that the matter was not satisfactorily dealth with.
The whole of my papers in this connection were put into my safe deposit box in Birmingham and the next time I am there I will undertake to pick up these papers, but I am not at all sure when I shall next be in the City.
I can say, however, that the whole of the monies due to my younger sister were paid over to her at the time and the implication that this was not done is certainly very disturbing and, of course, entirely unwarranted." - Robert Doeg Enock to Bailey Cox, Bosworth & Co - 31st January 1948
From looking at the balance of Amy’s bank account in 1955 and 1964 it’s almost certain that Madge was denied a share of Amy’s money.
Emily Bloxham - 1936
"This is the last will and testament of me Emily Bloxham of 309 Stockfield Road South Yardley in the county of Warwickshire. I hereby revoke all wills and testamentary instruments heretofore by me made. I appoint Robert Doeg Enock of 34 Dudley Park Road Acocks Green to be the Executor of this my will. I direct my Executors to pay my just debts and funeral and Testamentary Expenses. I give and bequeath the whole of my belongings whether personal or otherwise to my daughter Lilian Alma Enock of 34 Dudley Park Road Acocks Green Birmingham - witness my hand this day of June 17th 1927."
Gross Value of estate: £141. 15s. 11d.
Minnie Wilson - 1946
"My residuary Estate I BEQUEATH as follows:-
Three quarters share to my nephew, Robert Doeg Enock and his wife Lilian, One quarter share to my sister Mary Elizabeth Davis"
Net value of estate: £5204. 12s. 8d. (£4977 3s. 1d. less Estate Duty).
Three quarters of the residuary estate equates to £3207 (debts and funeral expenses not included).
George Theodore Davis - 1946
"I give the following pecuniary legacies free of all duties namely:-.....(c) To each of them Robert Doeg Enock and his wife Madge Enock [Lilian Enock] of 21 Ridgway Road Barton Seagrave near Kettering in the County of Northants the sum of one hundred pounds. (d) To each of them Muriel Enock Hazel Enock Clive Enock and Max Enock the children of the said Robert Doeg Enock the sum of twenty five pounds."
"Clive was lucky to be born into a family which, for generations, has practised the habit of absolute temperance. No alcoholic liquor has been taken by the families of either parents for at least three generations, and neither his father nor his mother have ever smoked." - Joan Enock
"Clive’s father became a man at the age of thirteen when his own father died and he was obliged to look after the home." - Joan Enock
Page updated 6th May, 2024.
