Robert George ENNEVER Born:  12 Apr 1845 6 Charles Street, Pedley Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex Died:  26 Jul 1937 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Welcome to the web site dedicated to recording the family history of the Ennevers and Enevers and our related families. You can search for individuals, display family trees, calculate relationships, read family histories and view family photographs and other historical documents. There are currently 12 family branches with more than 35,000 people and 4,000 unique surnames on the site, including over 2,000 Ennevers, Enevers, Enivers, Ennevors and other early variations.

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WJ Ennever (1869-1947). From the portrait by J Seymour R.A., exhibited in the Royal Academy.

1845 - 1937 (92 years)

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Name	Robert George ENNEVER
Born	12 Apr 1845	6 Charles Street, Pedley Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Christened	11 May 1845	St George, Middlesex
	First name(s) Robert George Last name Ennever Birth year 1845 Birth date 12/04/1845 Baptism year 1845 Baptism date 11 May 1845 Address 6 Charles St, Bethnal Green Father's first name(s) Robert Father's occupation House Agent Mother's first name(s) Harriet Agnes Parish St George In The East, Stepney Church address Cannon Street Road County London Country England Docklands Ancestors reference X024/133 Record set London, Docklands and East End Baptisms, 1558-1933 Category Life Events (BDMs) Subcategory Births & baptisms Collections from United Kingdom
Gender	Male
Living	11 May 1845	6 Charles Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Occupation	1851
	Scholar
Census	1 Apr 1851	20 Weaver Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
	Living with his grandmother, Harriet Thomas nee Stygle.
Occupation	1861
	Employed at home
Census	1 Apr 1861	17 Borough Road, Southwark, Surrey
Emigration	13 Dec 1861	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
	Name: Robert Enever Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Age: 16 Arrival Date: 13 Dec 1861 Arrival Port: Melbourne, Australia Departure Port: London Ship: Prince Of Wales Nationality: English
		Emigration Photographs showing the ship and a hotel. Possibly London or Melbourne.
Misc	Aft 1861	Castlereigh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Founded Ennever and Appleton Confectionery with his half-brother Charles
		Ennever & Appleton Confectioners Advertising leaflet. The original of this label is apparently almost A4 size (290mm x 190mm).
Travel	Abt 1864	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Misc	Dec 1877	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	The Argus
		The Manufacturing Industries of New South Wales The Argus (Melbourne) Thursday 13 December 1877
Misc	1886	Bay Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Moved the Ennever & Appleton factory
Living	Between 1895 and 1930	'Meredith', 6 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	See also his obituary.
Occupation	Between 1895 and 1900
	Alderman, North Sydney Council
Occupation	5 Dec 1895
	Confectioner
Misc	28 Apr 1903	Bay Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Registration of Ennever & Appleton
	Page Number Name of Firm Nature of Business Place of Business Date of Registration Person Carrying on Business Additional People in Business Number Item Number 019 ENNEVER & APPLETON Confectioners Bay Street Sydney 28 Apr 1903 ENNEVER, Robert George; APPLETON, William Thomas - 01238 [2/8527]
Living	1913	16 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
		Ennever family Electoral Rolls
Occupation	1913
	Retired
Misc	12 Apr 1928	Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	Celebration of 60th wedding anniversary
		Mr & Mrs R G Ennever Celebration of 60th wedding anniversary
Probate (Grant of)	6 Sep 1929	New South Wales, Australia
	Granted adminiostration on the estate of his daughter, Maria Eliza.
		Maria Eliza Ennever New South Wales, Australia, Index to Deceased Estate Files
Living	1935	6 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
		Ennever family Electoral Rolls
Occupation	1935
	Retired
Misc	12 Apr 1936
	68th wedding anniversary
		Coincidence The Sydney Morning Herald 11/4/1936
		Date of Easter Sunday The Sydney Morning Herald 17/4/1936
Misc	Before 1937
	Member of the Rechabite organisation
	From his Rechabite obituary in the Rechabite magazine in 1937. “In the year of 1864 at the age of 19 years, he started in his own business at Morrisons Diggings, Meredith, a small township near Ballarat. This business was disposed of in the following year (1865) and shortly afterwards he moved to Geelong where he again commenced business as a manufacturing confectioner.”
Misc	Before 1937
	President of the Confectionery Society
Occupation	26 Jul 1937
	Gentleman
Died	26 Jul 1937	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
		Robert George Ennever (1845-1937) Obituary in the New South Wales Rechabite magazine, August 12th 1937.
		Robert George Ennever (1845-1937) A Biographical Register 1788-1939: Notes from the NameIndex of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol I (A-K), 1987,compiled by HJ Gibney & Ann G Smith, p 211.
		Mr R G Ennever Obituary The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 31 July 1937
Probate	22 Jun 1938	Victoria, Australia
	First name(s) Robert G Last name Ennever Sex Male Occupation Gentleman Resident state New South Wales Country of residence Australia Death year 1937 Death date 26 Jul 1937 Grant year 1938 Grant date 22 Jun 1938 Nature of grant Pls To whom committed - File number 295/813 Order link VPRS 28/P3, unit 3086; State Victoria Country Australia Record set Victoria Wills & Probate Category Life Events (BDMs) Subcategory Wills & probate Collections from Australia & New Zealand
Misc	1939	Ennever Street, Bardon, Queensland, Australia
	The possible origins of Ennever Street were first featured in the October 2010 newsletter since when I have been in contact with the Brisbane City Council, who were very helpful and told me: “Ennever Street Bardon, formerly First Avenue, was named in March 1939 as part of a programme to replace duplicate street names in Brisbane. The only information we have is that Ennever was a Victorian (as in State of Victoria) pioneer. I have found an entry relating to a Robert George Ennever in A Biographical Register 1788-1939: Notes from the Name Index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol I (A-K), 1987, compiled by HJ Gibney & Ann G Smith, p 211. An extract is attached. The abbreviation “WWA (IPS)* 1935 (port.)” at the foot of the entry means that the source of the article was Who’s Who in Australia, 1935 (International Press Service Association, Melbourne) and that the item in that publication contains a portrait. The other reference, “dr”, means “information from death registration”. It is probable that the Ennever was in fact Robert as the biography indicates he first settled in Melbourne, Victoria where we know he started his business. He later moved to Sydney, New South Wales where the Ennever & Appleton business became established and Robert George became a respected member of the business community. As Robert George had no links to Queensland it is also possible that the Ennever referred to is William Joseph Ennever founder of The Pelman Institute which had offices throughout the world, and his Australian office was again in Victoria. It is somewhat surprising though that Brisbane celebrates a pioneer who had no connection with their state!
		Robert George Ennever (1845-1937) A Biographical Register 1788-1939: Notes from the NameIndex of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol I (A-K), 1987,compiled by HJ Gibney & Ann G Smith, p 211.
Probate	23 May 1939	New South Wales, Australia
	First name(s) Robert George Last name Ennever Remarks Occupation: gentleman Year 1937 Death date 26 Jul 1937 Duty date 23 May 1939 Locality Neutral Bay State New South Wales Country Australia Record set New South Wales, Deceased Estate Files 1880-1923 Category Life Events (BDMs) Subcategory Wills & probate Collections from Australia & New Zealand, Australia
Person ID	I1306	2. East End Ennevers
Last Modified	14 Apr 2018

Father	Robert ENNEVER, Born: 6 May 1818, Middlesex , Died: 6 Aug 1847, Peckham House Lunatic Asylum, Camberwell, Surrey (Age 29 years)
Mother	Harriet Agnes THOMAS, Born: 1821/2, St George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey , Died: 17 Aug 1894, Little Ryrie Street, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 72 years)
Married	21 Dec 1843	Parish Church, Christ Church, Middlesex
	As Grey Eagle Street was partly in Spitalfields it is probable that this was Christ Church, Spitalfields.
		Robert Ennever & Harriet Agnes Thomas Parish register
Family histories		Complex (and bigamous) relationships between the Ennever, Appleton, Collins and Thomas families in the 19th century. See also the "Mary Stothart Ennever" and "Ennever and Appleton" stories.
		Marriages to a closely-related family member (including to a dead spouse's sibling and a dead sibling's spouse and some bigamous and other illegal marriages)
		Mary Stothart Ennever (otherwise Collins) and her family The story of a bigamous relationship.
Family ID	F428	Family Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family (spouse) Maria Eliza COLLINS, Born: 26 Dec 1836, Mile End New Town, Middlesex , Died: 4 Jun 1929, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia (Age 92 years)

Married 12 Apr 1868 Trinity Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

The wedding plans were apparently delayed due to the death of his step-father (Charles Appleton) in 1865 probably connected with the confectionery business that Charles had built up.

IGI records the marriage as being in Digger, Victoria.

Children

	1. Harriot Ada ENNEVER, Born: 1869, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Died: 1948, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia (Age 79 years)
	2. Eleanor Maria ENNEVER, Born: 1871, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Died: 1946, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia (Age 75 years)
	3. Maria ENNEVER, Born: 1873, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Died: 8 Aug 1929, New South Wales, Australia (Age 56 years)
	4. Edith Lillian ENNEVER, Born: 1875, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Died: Yes, date unknown
	5. William James ENNEVER, Born: 1876, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , Died: 4 Jul 1939, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 63 years)
	6. Robert George ENNEVER, Born: 1878, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , Died: 1880, New South Wales, Australia (Age 2 years)
	7. Cecil Wentworth ENNEVER, Born: 1880, New South Wales, Australia , Died: 3 Jul 1964, Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia (Age 84 years)

Family histories

Marriages to a closely-related family member
(including to a dead spouse's sibling and a dead sibling's spouse and some bigamous and other illegal marriages)

Mary Stothart Ennever (otherwise Collins) and her family
The story of a bigamous relationship.

Ennever and Appleton, Wholesale and Manufacturing Confectioners
A brief history (c1864-1961)

Family ID F728 Family Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 12 Apr 1845 - 6 Charles Street, Pedley Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
	Christened - 11 May 1845 - St George, Middlesex
	Living - 11 May 1845 - 6 Charles Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
	Census - 1 Apr 1851 - 20 Weaver Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
	Census - 1 Apr 1861 - 17 Borough Road, Southwark, Surrey
	Emigration - 13 Dec 1861 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
	Misc - Founded Ennever and Appleton Confectionery with his half-brother Charles - Aft 1861 - Castlereigh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Travel - Abt 1864 - Geelong, Victoria, Australia
	Married - 12 Apr 1868 - Trinity Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
	Misc - The Argus - Dec 1877 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Misc - Moved the Ennever & Appleton factory - 1886 - Bay Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Living - Between 1895 and 1930 - 'Meredith', 6 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	Misc - Registration of Ennever & Appleton - 28 Apr 1903 - Bay Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Living - 1913 - 16 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	Misc - Celebration of 60th wedding anniversary - 12 Apr 1928 - Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	Probate (Grant of) - Granted adminiostration on the estate of his daughter, Maria Eliza. - 6 Sep 1929 - New South Wales, Australia
	Living - 1935 - 6 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
	Died - 26 Jul 1937 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
	Probate - 22 Jun 1938 - Victoria, Australia
	Misc - 1939 - Ennever Street, Bardon, Queensland, Australia
	Probate - 23 May 1939 - New South Wales, Australia

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Photographs » Slide Show		R G Ennever (1845-1937)
		Robert George Ennever (1845-1937) Bro. Robert G. Ennever PDCR who was instrumental in establishing Captain Cook tent No. 1 of the Rechabite Order and who later became the First District Chief Ruler of NSW District No. 85. Rechabites advocate total abstinence from alcohol.
		Robert George Ennever