Miss W.J. Enserinck started working as a state accountant at the Amsterdam tax office on 1 March 1916. The word ‘Miss’ was once used to refer to young girls, unmarried women and female schoolteachers (married or not). W.J. Enserinck was born in 1876 and remained at the Tax Administration until at least 1926. Even then, at the age of 50, she was still referred to as ‘Miss’. After 1926, she no longer appears in the civil service yearbooks, but the position of state accountant also seems to have ceased to exist.
Not much else is known about Miss Enserinck. We do know that she also used her accounting skills for a good cause. An article in the Hoornsche Courant (local newspaper) on 1 February 1913 reveals that she drew up the annual report for the Hoorn branch of the Nederlandsche Kinderbond (Dutch Children’s Association). The aim of the association was to ‘nurture love and justice for all living things’.
The branch brought in more donations than the previous year, enabling it to fund club evenings for children and buy books for the library.
