Vital Statistics
Frederick Pinsent: 1852 – 1929 GRO0326 (Bricklayer, Hackney, London and Walthamstow, Essex)
Hannah Jane Jenner: 1847 – 1926
Married: 1876: Hackney, London
Children by Hannah Jane Jenner:
Frederick Charles Pinsent: 1875 – 1951 (Coffee Stall Manager, Walthamstow; Married Jessie Maud Berrill, 1898)
Thomas Benjamin Pinsent: 1876 – 1877
Alice Amelia Pinsent: 1878 – xxxx (Married Stephen Shorter Sawyer, 1901, Walthamstow, Essex)
Alfred Charles Pinsent: 1881 – 1942 (Restaurant Cook, Hackney, London; Married Sarah Ann Dyer, 1904)
Eliza Maria Pinsent: 1883 – 1885
Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0326
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Frederick Pinsent was the youngest son of Charles Pinsent by his first wife, Mary (née Fullick). He was born at #8 Queen’s Terrace, in St. John’s Wood, London, in August 1852. This was shortly before his father was forced into bankruptcy. To make his father’s predicament worse, his mother died a couple of months later. Charles, who was a “cheese-monger” by profession married Georgiana Caroline Henley two years later and he arranged to be discharged from bankruptcy the following January (1855). The family then moved to #15, Little Norris Street, in Shoreditch, where Georgiana looked after Frederick and his siblings, and the two daughters she had by Charles.
Frederick’s father was clearly extremely stressed by his financial difficulties, and he committed suicide in 1863. His widow, Georgiana Caroline, was only twenty-six years old when he died and she had several young children to deal with. She remarried. She married James Murphy, who was a “carpenter,” in St. John’s Triangle Catholic Church in Hackney, in May 1864. This probably explains why Charles’s two younger sons, Alfred Pinsent and Frederick Pinsent went into the construction trades. His two older sons, Charles Pinsent and George Pinsent had long since left home, joined the “East Indian Army” and taken off for India in 1859.
Frederick Pinsent married Hannah Jane Oliver, the widowed daughter of Thomas Jenner, a Baptist minister, in June 1876. Both fathers were present at the wedding and signed the marriage certificate. Hannah brought two stepsons, Joseph East (9) and William (7) East, and one stepdaughter, Hannah East (4) into the marriage; however, they appear to have kept their own surname and are no cause for confusion in the family. Frederick and Hannah (and family) moved to Harrington Hill in Hackney, where they had five children of their own over the next eight years. Their eldest son, Frederick Charles Pinsent seems to have been born in Hackney almost a year before they married and their second, Thomas Benjamin Pinsent, a few months after their wedding. He died within a year. Their third child, Alice Amelia Pinsent arrived in 1878 and their next, a son, Alfred Charles Pinsent came after the Census had been taken in 1881. Their final child, Eliza Maria Pinsent was born in Hackney in 1883. However, she too was short lived.
Frederick was a bricklayer and his eldest son Frederick (16) was said to be a bricklayer’s labourer when the census was taken in 1891. The two younger children, Alice (11) and Alfred C. (8) were students. The family was then living at #16 Northwold Road, Hackney. Ten years on, in 1901, we find Frederick and Hannah Pinsent living at #106 Harlington Road in Walthamstow, in Essex, with their daughter Alice A. (22) who was then a waitress, and their son Alfred C. (20) who was a cook in a restaurant. Alice married in July, shortly after the census was taken.
Frederick and Hannah’s son Frederick Charles had married Jessie Maud Berrill and become a “coffee stall keeper” by the time the 1911 census was taken. The couple lived at #105 Forest Road, in Walthamstow, with Frederick Charles’s father and mother who had moved in with them. His father, Frederick, was said to be a “coffee stall assistant”. At the age of fifty-nine years, he had had enough of lugging bricks around!
Frederick and Hannah had moved out and they could be found at on Ridley Road, in Hackney in 1920, and at #73 Dalston Lane in Hackney in 1921. That was when the next set of census takers caught up with them. He as then said to be a “caterer’s assistant” who was employed by “F. C. Pinsent” – his son – “Caterer,” who lived next door at #71 Dalston Lane.
Hannah Pinsent died in Hackney in June 1926 and her husband Frederick died in West Hampstead, in Essex, in March 1929. Their sons lives are described elsewhere.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1754 – 1841
Grandmother: Elizabeth Pridham: 1763 – 1821
PARENTS
Father: Charles Pinsent: 1812 -1863
Mother: Mary Fullick: 1812 – 1852
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Anna Thomasin Crout Pinsent: 1777 – 1799
Thomas Pinsent: 1779 – 1779
Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1789 – xxxx
Maria Pinsent: 1797 – 1864
John Pinsent: 1799 – 1870
William Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
George Pinsent: 1814 – 1894
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Thomas Pinsent: 1836 – 1838
George Pinsent: 1840 – 1875
Alfred Pinsent: 1848 – 1919
Henry James Pinsent: 1850 – 1853
Frederick Pinsent: 1852 – 1929
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