{"id":16430,"date":"2021-03-06T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/tracingghosts\/?p=16430"},"modified":"2021-07-03T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:38:35","slug":"noakes-reservoir-cottage-southend-waterworks-company","status":"publish","type":"southendwaterworks","link":"https:\/\/ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/tracingghosts\/southendwaterworks\/southend-waterworks-company\/noakes-reservoir-cottage-southend-waterworks-company\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAKES | Reservoir Cottage, Thundersley, Essex | Southend Waterworks Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were three residential properties built in the early 1900’s by Southend Waterworks Company<\/strong> in Thundersley, Essex, which were associated with the reservoir and two pumping stations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reservoir Cottage<\/strong>\u00a0was the property associated with Burches Reservoir<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>The land west of the reservoir was sold off for housing c.1953, and Reservoir Cottage became 15 Common Approach<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NOAKES ~ 1939<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert William NOAKES<\/strong> a General Foreman was most likely the third resident of Reservoir Cottage<\/strong>, moving in after the previous occupants moved out in 1930<\/strong> (George William SHRIMPLIN<\/strong><\/a> and family). By 1939<\/strong> the section of road containing Reservoir Cottage<\/strong> up to Great Burches Road had changed name from “The Common” to “Common Approach<\/strong>“, and the property was now known as “Waterworks House<\/strong>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert William NOAKES<\/strong> was born 8th Dec 1881<\/strong> and was the sixth of eleven children born to Thomas James NOAKES<\/strong> and Esther STRUTT<\/strong>. The Noakes’ were an old Leigh-On-Sea family, and Thomas was a Fisherman<\/strong>, as was his father and his father before him. It seems the trade didn’t continue with Robert and his brothers though.<\/p>\n

Thomas married Esther on Christmas Eve of 1871 in St Clements, Leigh-On-Sea and had a child every one to two years until 1891 (and didn’t loose any in childhood).<\/p>\n

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  1. Ellen Gertrude Nokes<\/strong> (1873-1917)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Joseph William Noakes<\/strong> (1874-1926) Labourer<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. James Archer Noakes<\/strong> (1876-1920) Fisherman \/ Dock Labourer \/ Waterman<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Elizabeth Mary Ann Noakes<\/strong> (1877-1951)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Edward Olley\/Oliver<\/strong>\u00a0Noakes<\/strong> (1879-1952) Plasterer<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Robert William Noakes<\/strong> (1881-1956) Labourer (Sewage) \/ General Foreman Heavy Work<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Frederick Charles Stanley Noake\u00a0<\/strong>(1883-1944) Accumulator Worker Heavy<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Ada Eliza Noakes\u00a0<\/strong>(1885-1954)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. George Alfred Noakes\u00a0<\/strong>(1887-1960) Labourer \/ Police Constable<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Esther Annie Noakes\u00a0<\/strong>(1889)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Walter Pells\/Powells Noakes <\/strong>(1891-1967) Plasterer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Esther died in 1899<\/strong> aged 47, her youngest child was 7 and oldest 26. Thomas re-married the following year to widow Martha CLEMENTS<\/strong>, nee MATTHEWS<\/strong>. Thomas died in 1914<\/strong> aged 65.<\/p>\n

    Robert married Ethel BREED<\/strong> 10th Jun 1905<\/strong> in Chelmsford (where Ethel was from), and they had one son born in 1908<\/strong> (Robert Ronald NOAKES<\/strong>). Ethel was born to unmarried mother Elizabeth BREED<\/strong>, and her grandfather was a Carpenter and Joiner Journeyman (Ethel’s mother married Henry John LOVE<\/strong> when she was four and had three more children). In 1911<\/strong> the family were living at 2 Station Avenue in Prittlewell, Essex and Robert was working as a Sewage Labourer<\/strong>, presumably for Southend Waterworks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    By 1928<\/strong> the family were living in Thundersely, according to a newspaper report regarding Robert’s 19 year old son’s involvement in a traffic accident. Note how the reporter got his name wrong, exchanging his surname for part of his address, and even misspelling it (there is no such person as “Robert Birches”, nor have I been able to find “Miss Ann Hillman”).<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t