ROBERTS, Enoch Pedro (1894-1976)

ROBERTS, Enoch Pedro (1894-1976)

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Enoch Pedro Roberts was born December 29, 1894, on Green Turtle Cay, Abaco to Bartholomew Roberts (1854) and his wife Charity Ann Russell (c.1860).

His siblings included…

  • Adora Beatrice (1885)
  • Alberta Alice (1885)
  • Rosa Jane (1889)
  • Grethel Marguerite (1892)

On August 28, 1922, in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Enoch married Gladys Raine Archer (1904?-1956) from Marsh Harbour, Abaco. She is the daughter of Richard Samuel Archer (1871) and Beatrice Lightbourn (1874).

Their children included…

  • Dorothy Lorraine (1924)
  • Gerald Archibald Livingston (1926)
  • Sylvia Ethelyn (1928)
  • Richard Frederick Anthony (1932)
  • Enoch Pedro Jr (1936)
  • Patrick David (1942)
  • Rosemund Vashti

He was appointed Tidewaiter in the settlement – a position he held for four years. In 1917, Mr. Roberts joined the Board of Education as a Teacher in Training at the Boys Central School in Nassau. For the next 50 years he worked at schools throughout the country and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1974 for his service to education.

Enoch Pedro Roberts passed away March 2, 1976 (age 81) in Nassau, New Providence.

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