Amy Elizabeth Calcott was born on 17 September 1884 in Coventry to parents James Calcott and his wife Louisa nee Ingram. She was joined by her brother William Herbert in 1886. In 1891 the family were living in Howard Street, with James Calcott employed as a cycle manufacturer. Amy had two brothers and three sisters living with her at this time. By the time of the 1901 Census Amy was 16 years old and the family home was "Thurlaston", Foleshill Road. Presumably the house was named after her mother Louisa's birthplace.
Amy married George Frederick Kerby in July 1910; a year later they were living in Spencer Avenue, Earlsdon, and George was working for the Inland Revenue as a Tax Assessor. They had a son on 5 February 1915 who was named Geoffrey Calcott Kerby. By 1939 they had changed address and all three were living at Styvechale Lodge. Sadly she is described in the census as an invalid. She passed away on 28 June 1957 aged 72 years, just 6 months after her husband, while living at the family home Oak Lawn, Stoneleigh Road, Gibbet Hill.
Amy's father, James Calcott and his brother William, made the Calcott car (one of the many companies developing the motorised vehicle in Coventry.) There is a Calcott car at the motor museum in Beaulieu.
George Frederick Kerby
George was born on 22 October 1880 in Foleshill, Warwickshire, to parents George Kerby and his wife Mary Ann Kerby nee Middleton. A year later in April 1881 the family was living at Stoney Stanton Road with George's father employed as a flour miller.
He married Amy Elizabeth Calcott when he was 29 years old in Coventry in July 1910. A year later they were living at 49, Spencer Avenue in Earlsdon, Coventry and the census shows George was now working as an Inspector of Taxes. They only had one child, a son Geoffrey Calcott Kerby who was born on 5 February 1915. By 1939, George, his wife & son had moved to Styvechale Lodge on the Kenilworth Road and he had become a Manufacturer's Agent. His death was recorded in Warwick on 7 December 1956 when he was 76 years old; he had died at Riverpark Nursing Home, Blackdown, Leamington Spa. His home address at the time was Oak Lawn, Stoneleigh Road, Gibbet Hill. Probate was granted in Birmingham on 28 February 1957 with his executors being his son Geoffrey, daughter Valerie Hiscocks and George Mander.
Geoffrey Calcott Kerby
Geoffrey was born on 5 February 1915 in Coventry to parents George Frederick and Amy Elizabeth Kerby nee Calcott. In the 1939 Register he is aged 24 and shown living with his parents at 12, Styvechale Lodge, having become a dental surgeon. His father was a Manufacturer's Agent at that time. During the war he became a lieutenant in the army dental corps. He married
Daphne Dawson in 1947 at Woolwich, Kent. Daphne had been born on 19 August 1921, the daughter of George and Alice Dawson.She and Geoffrey had a son Peter in 1949 and another, Michael, in 1951, and a daughter Carolyn in 1954. The Phone Book listings of 1977 showed him living at Crabmill Farm, Waste Lane in Coventry with his Dental Surgery at 2, Carthusian Road, Coventry. He died aged 97 on 5 January 2013 and the interment of his ashes was at Stoneleigh on 20 April 2013. Daphne died on 20 March 2017 and her ashes were interred on 14 May.