L to R (back) Rosalind, Graham, Josephine, Connie, Wendy (front) Valerie - Woolacombe, Devon - c1940
Half Siblings
Andrew Derek Hylton De Rivaz (1921-2020). |
"Derek joined the family business of A1 & Dollis Dairies and in due course became joint managing director along with his brother Gerald. The Company was taken over in 1967 by the Express Dairy and he became an Area Director of that company, ending in charge of the company’s Long Service Association." - Taken from https://www.hailsoc.org/news/derek-de-rivaz-b-34-a-life-remembered
Date of marriage: Saturday, 3rd, March, 1945.
Place of marriage: St. Andrew's Church, Totteridge Village, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England.
"The story goes that his troops were often dismissed very close to a certain house where, according to his diary, ‘he would end up drinking cocoa with a very attractive, fair haired girl whom I was very keen on. Her name was Rosalind Enock’. ‘It is a fact that it was love at first sight’." - Taken from Derek de Rivaz (B 34) - a life remembered - The Haileybury Society
1923 - 3, Chardmore Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.
Demolished late 1970s/early 1980s.
1925-1935 - 1, Coniston Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.
1935-1945 - "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
1945-1951 - 1403, High Road, Finchley, London, England.
1958-2016 - "Tonnagh House" (No. 22), Hawkshead Lane, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
Holmewood School, Woodside Park Road, Finchley, London, England.
"Ro went to Pitman’s college to study shorthand and typing." - Wendy Thomas
1944 - Leading aircraftwoman.
"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
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."
1/5th of 3/20ths of residuary estate totals about £323. 14s. 6d.
Grand-daughter Rosalind (did not reply) white marble figure of boy student and glass shade (brought by AGE for Miss Graham from Naples about 1891), oak table in hall, Zilpha Holland silk sampler in frame.
Joseph Guy Enock - 1984
"D. To my niece Rosalind de Rivaz of Tonnagh House Hawkshead Lane North Mimms Hatfield Herts AL9 8TB
(i) my collection of Hock Burgundy and other wine glasses and tumblers and their cupboard
(ii) my canteen of stainless steel cutlery (one teaspoon missing)
(iii) my silver plated ornamental tea pot
(iv) Winifred's painting of Roses (in Lounge over the smaller walnut cabinet)"
"(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 Rosalind de Rivaz of Tonnagh House Hawkshead Lane South Mimms Herts...."
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 6th, January, 2021.
