Eminson, Robert George
* see below for photo information
R.C. EMINSON
Robert George Eminson ('Bob'; incorrectly listed)
Born 4th November 1877 at St. John's Wood, London
Son of John Milton Oxley (a pharmaceutical chemist from Scotter) and Fanny Froment (nee Button of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire)
As a child lived at London Road, Earley, Berkshire
Father made his living buying ailing chemist shops and ’turning them round’ for a profit
By 1891 the family was living at Balby Road, Doncaster and later at Campbell Road, Bromley
Remained a bachelor and continued to live with his parents and spinster sister Gertrude (‘Gertie‘)
When his paternal grandmother Martha Eminson (nee Oxley) died in 1907 his father inherited Mount House on Messingham Road, Scotter; since demolished in the 1970s
On 28th March 1907 set sail on board S.S. Pomeranian from London via Le Havre to Toronto, Canada
2 weeks later arrived at Halfiax, Nova Scotia
Not found in the 1911 England census
His family were at Alderman’s Drive, Peterborough when his father died in 1912
Moved with his mother and sister to the Scarborough area where Fanny died in 1933
Lived at 22 Alma Square, Scarborough
Gertie died at 47 High Street, Snainton on 4th January 1958 aged 81
In the early 1960s visited his cousin William Gibbons Eminson at Northorpe and remembered as:-
‘a big man who strode across the yard in a few paces’
Moved to reside at 344 Scalby Road, Newby, Scarborough
Died 30th November 1972 aged 95 at Ravensworth Lodge, a nursing home on Belgrave Crescent
Cremated in the town at Woodlands
Brother of Herbert (main face)
* The image above was cropped from one in a series of pictures showing Mount House interiors. At the time they were taken it is believed his sister Gertrude was living there. One of the images shows a family room with many photographs. Three are on display, one with a white frame and the other two in black frames. (Quite often black frames were used for people who had died.)
An elderly lady is seen in a black frame; she is almost certainly Gertrude’s mother who passed away in 1933 aged 81. Standing on a small table are two photographs side by side. They each show a young man and seem to have been taken at the same time. It has been assumed the image in a black frame is Herbert, killed in 1918, and the one above is the only known image of Robert.