Kenneth Cargill Enock c1967
Daphne Hazel Enock (née Ogilvie) (1917-2013). |
Date of marriage: Saturday, 20th September, 1941.
Place of marriage: St Aidan's Anglican Church, 63, Regent Street, Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1908-1910 - Durban, Natal, South Africa.
1910-1912 - Bulawayo, Rhodesia, South Africa.
1946 - Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa.
"In 1919 at the age of 11 I was sent to boarding school in Cape Town necessitating a five-day train journey from Salisbury.
On the return journey the train normally arrived at our farm halt halt outside Salisbury at 2.A.M. There was no station or station platform - just a stopping point.
I used to sit at the side of the track in the pitch dark for four hours while awaiting daylight and the arrival of the ox-wagon to meet and take me to the farm.
Although while waiting I heard odd noises around me I was never attacked. However, I grasped my little cricket bat firmly in both hands, just in case!"
1937: Newspaper Representative
1957: Manager
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Rank: 6th August 1940-1942: Temporary Paymaster Lieutenant / 1945-1946: Lieutenant
"My mother, Vera Cargill Enock, was daughter of George Frederick Clulee, who married Dora Cargill. Dora was the daughter of Capt. William Cargill's son, Francis Alfred.
Vera, who was born in Timaru in 1882, married Donald Enock in 1902 in Durban, Natal. I was born there in 1908, as was my elder sister Peggy, in 1906. We moved to Bulawayo, Rhodesia in 1910 - just twenty years after the Pioneer Column had hoisted the Union Jack at Fort Salisbury. In 1912 my younger sister, Betty, was born in Bulawayo.
In those days the main mode of transport in the towns was the push-bike and the ricksha. I can recall an incident during a tropical storm when the ricksha conveying the family became bogged down in the main road. Father and son were then obliged to get out and push for a mile in the rain and mud. Tarred roads were unknown at that time in Rhodesia.
My mother, together with her younger sisters, Ruth and Lindsay, was very musical. We enjoyed many social evenings at home with Vera on the piano, listening to the lovely voices of Ruth and Lindsay, who also took part in numerous musical reviews at theatres in Durban, and did a great deal to entertain servicemen during the Great War.
My father's engineering life took us to many parts of southern Africa, including Durban, Cape Town, Bulawayo and Salisbury.
During war service with the Royal Navy I married Daphne Hazel Ogilvie in 1941, and in 1946 we settled in Salisbury, Rhodesia, where our children, Shirley and Martin grew up."
Page updated 21st November, 2020.
