Leonard Andersen Enevoldson

Leonard & wife Patty Enevoldson

Leonard Enevoldson's visit to Denmark in 1933

Leonard Enevoldson 1933

Leonard Andersen Enevoldson was born in 1910 and was the second child born to Thyge and his second wife Gertrude.  This photograph of Leonard was taken in 1933 when he returned to the Holmsland to visit his Danish cousins.  The young lady with arms draped over Leonard is Krista Andersen, his 1st cousin once removed.  Krista would have been 15 years of age at the time of the photograph.  Krista later married Andreas Veise and she maintained contact with her English cousins up until her death in 2001.

Leonard lived in Hull all of his life, working as a Fish Merchant on the Hull Fish Dock.  He married Patricia and they lived happily together until January 2001 when sadly they both died with days of eachother.  Leonard was affectionately known as Uncle Tubby by his many nieces and nephews.

This is the house where Thyge Andersen was born.

The house as it looks today having been lovingly restored

Thyge Andersen Enevoldsen

The Bible

On the day of the consecration, Gertrude Enevoldson, Thyge's wife, presented a Bible to the congregation.  The Bible has been lovingly cared for by each passing generation and is still present in the Mission House today.  Over the years, when the children of Thyge and Gertrude Enevoldson visited the Mission House they signed the Bible.

First to sign was Thyge's son Leonard Anderson Enevoldson when he visited the Mission in August 1933, not long after Thyge's death.  Daughter Audrey and her brother Leslie visited in June 1978.  Son Stuart and his wife Vera visited in June 1985.  Son John visited in October 1996 and Iver and his wife Marian and sister Audrey visited in 1993.

The Bible presented to the Mission by Gertrude Enevoldson in 1910

100 Year Anniversary Ebenezer Mission House

On this day, Tuesday, 7th September 2010 we celebrate the 100 year Anniversary of the consecration of the Mission House.

Ebenezer Mission House

The consecration of the Mission House took place on 7th September 1910, 100 hundred years ago next month.  I have recently discovered a photograph or painting  of the Mission as the building originally appeared and have included for all to see.  Certainly looks more like a place of worship than the building does today.

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