Name from Brian of nzolivers. Enid was Brian’s great-aunt. ‘Aunty Enid’ was the younger sister of his grandfather, Malcolm Graeme Cox McCaul 1883-1975.

Date and place of birth, Date and place first marriage, date and place of second marriage, date and place of death, place of burial as “Levin” [see further down], from “McCaul Family Scotland” compiled in 1991 by Marcia Barbara (Barbara) McCaul, Canada (b. 1932, d. 2002). Barbara was the great-great grandaughter of Gilbert McCaul (b. 1765) and Janet McFarlan (b. 1770). Brian of nzolivers.com is the great-great-great grandson of Gilbert and Janet.

Barbara writes that Enid’s father:
… left his wife and children in Wellington to go to Australia to seek a better job. He did not return to New Zealand. His two elder children Enid and Graeme helped their mother bring up the younger children.

Occupation information from Kathleen (Kathy) Oliver b. 26 February 1954. Kathy also says, Enid on took up the position again when a widow and in 1943 married Ben Roberts in Wellington.

Brian of nzolivers.com remembered visting “Aunty Enid” in her Levin home.

Enid was awarded an M.B.E. in the 1960 New Year Honours.

In 1965 Enid Roberts wrote the book, “Remembered - From Ploughboy to Parliamentarian, The life and works of the Hon. Ben Roberts, Minister of Agriculture and Marketing 1943-46”. Printed and Published by Masterton Printing Co. Ltd., Lincoln Road, Masterton, New Zealand.

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1882/6166. McCaul, Isabella Enid. Mother: Elizabeth Annie. Father: Malcolm McFarlane

Full date of birth of 1 April 1882 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Result for first marriage (to Peter) from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1916/4270. Bride: Isabella Enid McCaul. Groom: Peter Henderson Dodds

Full date of marriage of 7 March 1916 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Unfortunately, Peter Henderson died on 9 September 1933 after 17 years of marriage. Enid married Ben Roberts, ten years later, in 1943.

Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1966/33460. Roberts, Isabel Enid. Died age 84Y

Full date of death of 21 June 1966 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Extract from 1904 Teachers Examinations and Licences lists of successful candiates for Class E Teachers Certificate found in March 2022:
McCaul, Enid Isabella - Wellington

Extract from 1909 Teachers Examinations and Licences lists of successful candiates for Class C Teachers Certificate found in March 2022:
McCaul, Enid Isabella - Palmerston N.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Pahiatua Roll for 1905/6
McCaul, Enid Isabella, Pahiatua, school teacher [Would of been aged 23 yrs]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Suburbs Supplementary Roll for 1908
McCaul, Enid Isabella, 139 Owen Street, spinster
McCaul, Douglas George, 139 Owen Street, clerk [Brother]
McCaul, Charlotte Alice Hilda, 139 Owen Street, spinster [Sister]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Roll for 1911
McCaul, Enid Isabella, Muhunoa, Ohau, spinster [Ohau is south of Levin]
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Muhunoa, Ohau, married [Mother]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki General Roll for 1914
McCaul, Enid Isabella, Muhunoa, Ohau, spinster [Ohau is south of Levin]
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Muhunoa, Ohau, married [Mother]
McCaul, Hilda Charlotte Alice, Otaki, spinster [Sister]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairarapa Roll for 1914
McCaul, Enid Isabella, The School, Gladstone, spinster
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, The School, Gladstone, married [Mother]
McCaul, Hilda Charlotte Alice, The School, Gladstone, spinster [Sister]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei General Roll for 1919
Dodds, Isabella Enid, Grey Street, Marton, married
Dodds, Peter Henderson, Grey Street, Marton, farmer

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei General Roll for 1922
Dodds, Isabella Enid, Pukepapa Road, Marton, married
Dodds, Peter Henderson, Pukepapa Road, Marton, farmer

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei General Roll for 1925
Dodds, Isabella Enid, Pukepapa Road, Marton, married
Dodds, Peter Henderson, Pukepapa Road, Marton, milk vendor

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei General Roll for 1928, 1931
Dodds, Isabella Enid, Pukepapa Road, Marton, married
Dodds, Peter Henderson, Pukepapa Rd., Marton, milk vendor

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairarapa General Roll for 1935
Dodds, Isabella Enid, Gladstone Road, Masterton, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairarapa General Roll for 1938
Dodds, Isabella Enid, School House, Gladstone, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Masterton General Roll for 1941
Dodds, Isabella Enid, 16 Pownall Street, Masterton, widow
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 16 Pownall Street, Masterton, widow [Mother]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairarapa General Roll for 1946, 1949
Roberts, Isabella Enid, Parkvale, married
Roberts, Benjamin, Parkvale, farmer

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Supplementary Roll No. 2 for 1949
Roberts, Isabella Enid, Read St., Levin, married
Roberts, Benjamin, Read St., Levin, bank director

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki General Roll for 1954
Roberts, Isabella Enid, 17 Edinburgh St., Levin, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Main Roll for 1957
Roberts, Isabella Enid, 17 Edinburgh St., Levin, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Main Roll for 1960
Roberts, Isabella Enid, 5 Edinburgh St., Levin, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Main Roll for 1963
Roberts, Isabella Enid, 15 Edinburgh Street, Levin, retired

Result from marriage search for second marriage on New Zealand BDM website in August 2023:
1943/7972. Bride: Isabella Enid Dodds. Groom: Benjamin Roberts

Full date of second marriage of 29 September 1943 confirmed from further searching in August 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1926, found in September 2023:
Marton, Wellington
- Dodds, Mrs I E, teacher
- Dodds, Peter Henderson, farmer [Husband of Enid]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1933, found in September 2023:
Marton, Wellington
- Dodds, Mrs I E, teacher
- Dodds, Ptr [Peter] H, farmer

Different place of burial found in September 2023, not Levin but given as "St Stephen’s Anglican Cemetery, Marton", from Find a Grave website found in September 2023:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/256277027/isabel-enid-roberts
However, subsequence checking with the St Stephen’s Anglican Church in Marton revealed no record of burial or internment.

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SUMMARY OF ENID’S TEACHING CAREER
Added here in September 2023:

1897 to 1900
Female Pupil Teacher. McCAUL, Enid. Age 15. Newtown School, Wellington

1901 to 1902
Female Pupil Teacher. McCAUL, Enid. Mount Cook Girls' School, Wellington

1904 to 1906
Assistant Female Teacher, Class E3 Teachers Certificate 1905/06. McCAUL, Enid I. Pahiatua School [Wairarapa]

1907 to 1910
Assistant Female Teacher, Class E2 1907/08, Class C2 1909/10. McCAUL, Enid I. Island Bay School, Wellington

1911 to 1913
Female Teacher, Class C2. McCAUL, Enid I. Muhunoa East School [Near Ohau, south of Levin]

1914 to 1915
Head Female, Class C1. McCAUL, Enid - Gladstone School [Near Carterton, Wairarapa]

7 March 1916
Enid marries Peter Henderson DODDS at St. Peter's Church, Wellington

End of 1917 to December 1933
Headmistress. DODDS, Isabella Enid. St. Stephen's Church School, Marton.

9 September 1933
Peter Henderson DODDS dies (drowned).

January 1934 to June 1939
Headmistress. DODDS, Isabella Enid. Gladstone School

June 1939
Enid DODDS, now retired, living in Masterton.

29 September 1943
Enid marries Benjamin (Ben) ROBERTS at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington

December 1949
Enid and Ben purchase two sections in Levin to retire to. Build home in 1950 on one, other for garden.

17 November 1952
Husband Ben ROBERTS dies in Foxton whilst giving an address at an end-of-year function of the Men's Christian Fellowship Group.

1950s/1960s
Enid ROBERTS continues to live in Levin, works on her New Zealand womens' research. Awarded M.B.E. in 1960 New Years Honours for service to the community. Sets up the Ben Enid Foundation to provide housing for over seventy-year-old widows and those with homes and gardens too big for them and, a chapel to serve the village and new Horowhenua Hospital.

21 June 1966
Enid dies in Palmerston North Hospital

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Photos of Obituary received from Kevin Miles of the Horowhenua Heritage Room, Levin Library, in an email dated 7 October 2023. Please see PDF.

In the article there is a picture of Enid with a chair. In a telephone call with Ben Roberts’ granddaughter in December 2024, the chair was originally presented to Ben Roberts as a thank you for arranging the wives of chineses gardeners to come out to the Wairarapa in New Zealand to be with their husbands.