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© Revd Patrick Comerford The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, Aston, Birmingham, where Richard Enraght & Dorothea Gooch were married in February 1865 |
Dorothea’s family were amongst the early pioneers of the building of Britain’s railway system and the designs of locomotives, her father was John Viret Gooch (1812-1900) the Resident Engineer and Superintendent of the London & South Western Railways. Dorothea's Grandmother's Longridge family owned the Bedlington Ironworks in Northumberland.
Dorothea (née Gooch) Enraght's uncles:-
Sir Daniel Gooch, the Superintendent of the Great Western Railways and was instrumental in the laying of the first Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, he also served as a Member of Parliament.
Thomas Longridge Gooch, Civil Engineer for the Manchester & Leeds Railways.
William Frederick Gooch, Manager of the Swindon Railway Works in Wiltshire, and later the Director of the Vulcan Iron Foundary (locomotive builders) in Lancashire.
During Fr Richard and Dorothea Enraght's married life they had seven children:-
Mary (born and died 1866, Wrawby, Lincolnshire.),
William (b.1868 at 5, Queens Square, Brighton, Sussex.),
Ellen (b. 1870, at 36, Russell Square, Brighton, Sussex.),
Hawtrey (b.1871 at 36, Russell Square, Brighton, Sussex.),
Grace (b.1873 at 5, Station Road, Portslade, Sussex.),
Dora (b.1875, The Vicarage, 175, Camp Hill, Birmingham, Warwickshire.) and
Alice (b.1879, The Vicarage, 175, Camp Hill, Birmingham, Warwickshire.) [50] .
The eldest son, William (1868-1954) was later to become Dr William Enraght M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., a surgeon in London. The 1893 Medical Directory for London shows Dr W Enraght living in Croyden Road, Anerly, in a house named 'Curraghmore'. During the First World War, Capt Dr William Enraght of the Royal Army Medical Corps, served on H.M. Hospital Ship Formosa in the Gallipoli Campaign. In 1918 Capt Dr Enraght transferred to the Royal Air Force's Medical Department.
Revd Hawtrey Enraght served as Vicar of St Helen’s Ranworth where the altar in the north parclose was dedicated to his father. [52] In later life his ministry took him to St Margaret’s Lowestoft. For his long and dedicated service to his Diocese of Norwich the Revd Hawtrey Enraght was awarded the honorary title of Canon in 1928 [53]
Hawtrey was married to Emily Newton, the granddaughter of Sir Daniel Gooch, whom was also the great uncle of Hawtrey (see above for the Gooch Family).
The Revd Hawtrey Enraght, his wife, and eldest daughter were close friends of the composer Benjamin Britten, and would regularly visit him at his home in Kirkley Cliff Road, Lowerstoft, for afternoon tea in the 1930s.
Shortly after Fr Richard Enraght’s death his widow Dorothea and daughter Grace moved to Walsingham, where Grace married the Revd Edgar Reeves the Vicar of Walsingham. [51]
Dorothea (née Gooch) Enraght died in 1932 and was buried next to her husband.
Brief Timeline of the Revd Matthew Enraght's Life (the Father of Richard Enraght) :-
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© Revd Patrick Comerford Matthew Enraght was Baptised at Holy Trinity, Rathkeale on 3 July 1805 |
1805, Richard's father, the Revd Matthew Enraght was born in 1805 in Rathkeale, County Limerick, the son of Matthew and Mary Enraght, the family ran a Grocery, Wine & Spirits Merchants in Rathkeale, they also owned the 14 acre Knockanavod Farm and Farm House which adjoined the town.
Sadly 2 years after Matthew (junior) birth in 1807 his father died.
1832, Matthew, Graduated with B.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
1834, Matthew Enraght and Maria Anne Cox, were married on 24th November 1834, at Kilmastulla Church in Tipperary. Maria was the daughter of the late Revd Richard Cox and Sarah (née Hawtrey) Cox of Caherconlish in County Limerick and the sister of Sir Ralph Hawtrey Cox of Dunmanway in County Cork.
1835, Matthew, Ordained Priest by the Archbishop of Armagh.
1837, Richard Enraght was born on 23rd February 1837, in Moneymore *(see notes below), the son of the Revd Matthew and Maria Anne.
Matthew was the Assistant Curate of St John's Church, Desertlyn, Moneymore, (County Derry - County Londonderry).
Richard's mother, Maria Anne (née Cox) Enraght, died
in May 1837 at Moneymore.
1839, Matthew married his
second wife, Sarah, the
daughter of Henry Thomas Houghton of Kilmanock House, Arthurstown,
County
Wexford. In October
1840, a month after the couple had lost their son who was stillborn, Sarah sadly died.
1841, Revd Matthew Enraght moved to Donnybrook & Booterstown, Dublin, to serve as a Curate.
1843, In
February 1843 at Booterstown's Church, Dublin,
Matthew married his third
wife, Henrietta Hickman Massey
the only daughter of
the Revd Henry Hickman Massey of Stoneville, County Limerick and the granddaughter of the late Sir Thomas Fetherstonhaugh of Ardagh and Member of Parliament for County Longford.
1845, Curate at Williamstown, Blackrock, Dublin.
1849, Curate at Monktown, Dublin.
1851-1853, Curate at St Paul's Church, Kilburn, London, and Chaplain to the 3rd Earl Castle Stewart, (Edward Stewart).
1853-1856, Vicar of St Mary's, Nonnington, Kent.
1856, Vicar of St Mary
Magdalene, Lyminster in West Sussex.
In 1866 Matthew, took time off from his ministry, and with his wife who was in poor health, spent a few months in Florence, Italy.
At Lyminster, the Revd Matthew
was just 20 miles, with a very good railway connection, from his son
Richard and grandchildren in Portslade, East Sussex.
1873, retired from his Lyminster ministry.
1873-1874 the Revd Matthew Enraght spent
a year at Château-d'Oex, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, where there
was an Anglican community and chaplaincy, for the benefit of his wife,
Henrietta’s, health.
1878 Henrietta Hickman Enraght died in Surrey.
1881 Revd Matthew
Enraght and Dr Walter Phillimore (later Lord Phillimore), gave speeches at the Oxford Branch of the
English Church Union, in support of imprisoned Anglican Priests.
1882, The Revd Matthew Enraght, lived with his daughter and granddaughter in Clifton, Bristol and died while visiting Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, on the 13th April 1882.
Brief Timeline of Richard Enraght's Life:-
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| Image Credit the Hathi Trust Digital Library The Drapers' Company's Reports of Deputations (1841) - Estates of the Company in Drapers Town. (present day - Moneymore). Moneymore in 1827 |
1837, Richard Enraght was born on 23rd February 1837, in Moneymore (County Derry - County Londonderry), the son of the Revd Matthew Enraght and Maria Anne Cox, who were married on 24th November 1834, at Kilmastulla Church in Tipperary.
Maria Anne was the daughter of the late Revd Richard Cox and Sarah (née Hawtrey) Cox of Caherconlish in County Limerick. Sarah was the sister of Sir Ralph Hawtrey Cox of Dunmanway in County Cork.
Richard's mother, Maria Anne (née Cox) Enraght, died
in May 1837 at Moneymore, where
his father was serving
as an Assistant Curate at St John's Church, Desertlyn, Moneymore.
The 1891 UK Census for Poplar, Bromley, in the year that the Revd Richard Enraght was serving as the Curate of St Gabriel Church, records his place of birth as ‘Moneymore’
The 1891 Census' enumerator’s itallic handwriting is very poor,
the badly formed ‘M’ letter appears to be ‘Cl’ the ‘n’ letter appears
as ‘r’ and the ‘y’ letter as a ‘g’.
In the same document an unrelated female resident of Bromley, with the Christian name of 'May' also has a badly written 'M' which also appears as a 'Cl'.
The ‘AI Bot’
has determined that this poor itallic handwritten ‘Moneymore’ is actually spelt as ‘Cloregmore’ (No place of that name in Ireland) and also the handwriting of the surname ‘Enraght’ has been interpreted by the 'Bot' as being spelt as ‘Enragtt’.
Some genealogical and history websites have assumed this ‘AI Bot’ miss-interpreted word of ‘Cloregmore’ is the actual village of ‘Clonmore' in County Carlow.
The Enraghts and their related Cox and Hawtrey families, have no
historic connection with Clonmore.
Richard Enraght’s son, the Revd Hawtrey Enraght stated to the British Guardian newspaper in 1898, that his father was born in Moneymore in 1837.
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1851, student at the Sheffield Collegiate School, Yorkshire. (UK Census)
1860, Graduated with B.A., & Div. Test., Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
1861, Student of Divinity at St Mary the Virgin, in Nottingham (UK Census)
1861, Ordained a Deacon and Priest (1862) by the Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol, at Gloucester Cathedral.
1861-64, Curate of St Bartholomew Church Corsham, Wiltshire.
1864-66, Assistant Curate of Sheffield Parish Church in 1865, (now known as Sheffield Cathedral), and in early 1866 he was appointed Assistant Curate in the nearby, St Luke the Evangelist, Solly Street, but this posting did not last long.
While living in Sheffield, Fr Enraght served as the Travelling Secretary of The National Association for Promoting Freedom of Worship in the Church of England.
1866-68, Curate of St Mary's Church, Wrawby, Brigg, Lincolnshire,
1868-72, Curate of St Paul's Church, Brighton, East Sussex.
1872-74, Curate in Charge of St Andrew's Church, Portslade, East Sussex. From 1872 until 1874 the Enraght Family lived at No. 5 Station Road Portslade (originally named, Courtney Terrace), where their daughter Grace was born in 1873.
1880-81, Arrested and sent to Warwick Prison, after refusing to attend his trial, at which, in his absence, he was found guilty of contravening the Public Worship Regulation Act
1882, Through the failure of an appeal to the House of Lords in May by Fr Enraght, he became liable to another term of imprisonment.
On St Matthew's Day, 21st September 1882, Fr Enraght attended Dr Pusey's funeral at Christ Church, Oxford.
1883, Dismissed and evicted from his vicarage with his young family by order of the Bishop of Worcester at Easter 1883. Fr Enraght & Family took lodgings in Montpelier Street, Brighton, close to the Church of St Michael & All Angels, Brighton, to convalesce. He assisted Fr Wagner at St Paul's Brighton while waiting for his next Church appointment.
1884-88, Curate of St Michael & All Angels, Bromley by Bow, Poplar, London
1888-95, Curate of St Gabriel, Poplar, London. The Enraght Family lived in St Gabriel's Vicarage, in Morris Road, Poplar.
In November 1894, Fr Enraght officiated at the funeral of his cousin, Dr Richard Hawtrey Lyon at St Mary's Church, Thatcham, Berkshire. Dr Richard was a partner in a Medical Practice in Thatcham with his brother, Dr Francis Henry Lyon.
The brothers were the sons of the late Revd Thomas Lyon, Chaplain to the Marquis of Thomond, Rural Dean and Rector of Kilbarron in County Tipperary, like Fr Enraght, they were nephews of the late Sir Ralph Hawtrey Cox of Dunmanway in County Cork.
(The late Revd Thomas Lyon was married to Richard Enraght's mother's sister).
1895-98, Rector of St Swithun, Bintree (then Bintry) with Themelthorpe, Norfolk
1898, Died September 21st, on St Matthew’s Day, at Bintree, Norfolk.
Lost & Surviving Memorials to the Revd Richard W. Enraght
All Saints, Birmingham
In May
1899, the Birmingham Branch of the English Church Union held their
second anniversary at All Saints in Small Heath. The main purpose of
the meeting was the unveiling and dedication of a memorial stained
glass window in the north aisle of All Saints to the memory of the
late Revd R. W. Enraght, Vicar of the neighbouring Holy Trinity, Bordesley. The Revd. Hon. H. Douglas unveiled the new window with the
words “in pious memory of Richard William Enraght, priest”.
Canon
Douglas gave a short address recalling the life and times of Revd
Enraght ‘whom was a personal old friend and whose self-sacrificing
devotion and beautiful character’ were the subject of a warm
panegyric. The Canon went on to say Revd Enraght was a man who
admitted no compromise in any way, but he was endowed with grace and
charity, for “no one was ready to forget injuries and to make the
most of all good to be met in the World”.
A sermon by
Canon Bodington was devoted to a brief exposition of the Catholic
Faith as “the religion of common sense,” with particular
reference to the “settled principles of the English Reformation of
which the Revd Enraght wrote some years ago”.
Sadly, a
bombing raid on Birmingham in the Second World War completely
destroyed the All Saints Church along with the Enraght Memorial
Window. In the subsequent years a new All Saints Church was built on
the bomb site.
St Gabriel Church, Poplar, London
In
December 1898 the Morning Post reported, “The Enraght
Memorial – As a memorial to the late Revd R Enraght it has been
decided to complete the temporary side Chapel of St Gabriel, which is in a most unfinished state. The estimate cost is about £200.
The Holy Eucharist is offered daily in the chapel, this being
inaugurated by Mr Enraght when he was appointed to the Curacy in
charge ten years ago. The Bishop of Stepney has approved the
proposal”.
It was
announced in September 1899 that the £200 had been
raised by public subscription, amongst the subscribers, were the
Bishops of Islington and Stepney and the Hon. Lionel Holland, M.P.
for Tower Hamlets Bow & Bromley.
Again Sadly, a bombing raid
on London in the Second World War, damaged St Gabriel’s beyond
repair and the Church along with the ‘Enraght’s Chapel’ was
demolished.
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The
Lady Chapel windows at
St Swithun’s Bintree depicting the Annunciation of Our Lady ('The Enraght Memorial Window') |
St Swithun Church, Bintree, Norfolk.
In April 1933, 'The Enraght Memorial Window' was dedicated at St Swithun Church, Bintree. The subject was a two light window is the Annunciation. This window was installed in the Lady Chapel above the altar. This stained glass window was a gift from members of the Enraght family. Bishop O’Rorke dedicated the window at a special evensong service, two representatives of the Enraght family, Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Spurgeon, both from Aldeburgh, were amongst the large congregation. (Bishop Mowbray Stephen O'Rorke, a former Bishop of Accra, the Rector of Blakeney in Norfolk and a Guardian of The Shrine at Our Lady of Walsingham)
St Alban the Martyr, Highgate, Birmingham
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| copyright © PCC of St Alban and St Patrick, Highgate, Birmingham. Fr Enraght’s chasuble |
The above photograph shows Fr
Enraght’s chasuble on display at St
Alban the Martyr,
Highgate, Birmingham.
Fr Enraght was close friends with the
Vicar and Curate of St Alban’s, the Revd James Samuel Pollock and his
brother the Revd Thomas Benson Pollock, whom Fr Enraght had known since
their days together at Trinity College, Dublin. The Pollock brothers were born on the Isle of Man.
Holy Trinity Bordesley was the neighbouring Parish to St Alban the Martyr.
In 1933, the Catholic Literature Association issued the following tribute to Fr. Richard Enraght and the four other priests that had been imprisoned:-
A modern day commentary on the events that surrounded the Public Worship Regulations Act of 1874 comes from the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church:- “This attempt at suppressing Ritualism so discredited the Act (in fact it created Anglo-Catholic martyrs) led to it being regarded as virtually obsolete”
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© D. Sharp The Revd Richard Enraght 'Bus', 22 November 2013. In Boundary Road, Hove, the opposite side of this street is called, Station Road, Portslade, where Fr Enraght lived in 1872. (In 2023 this bus was taken out of operation, after 17 years of service throughout the City of Brighton & Hove.) |
***Notes Concerning the Timeline of the above Revd Richard Enraght text appearing on the Internet.
In 2025 the above Biography article was greatly expanded from the original 2001 Biography text by new updated research.