Vital Statistics
Frederick Charles Pinsent: 1875 – 1951 GRO0327 (Caterer, Walthamstow, Essex)
Jessie Maud Berrill: 1877 – 1967
Married: 1898: Walthamstow, Essex
Children by Jessie Maud Berrill:
Ivy Lillian Pinsent: 1900 – xxxx (Married Harold John Buck, 1925)
Victor Charles Pinsent: 1907 – 1993
Family Branch: Devonport
Family Summary: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0327
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Frederick Charles Pinsent was the eldest son of Frederick Pinsent by his wife, Hannah Jane (née Jenner). He was born in Hackney, in London, in 1875 and attended Sidney Road School between 1884 and 1888, when his parents lived at #165 Rushmore Road (London, England, School Admissions and Discharges: 1840-1911). After leaving school, he took a job as a “waiter” in Walthamstow in Essex, on the outer fringe of London – approximately five miles northeast of Hackney.
Frederick was a Wesleyan and he married Jessie Maud Berrill at the New Congregational Church in Hackney, in October 1898. They had a daughter, Ivy Lillian Pinsent in 1900, while they were living at #105 Pretoria Avenue in Walthamstow. They were still there when the census was taken the following year. Ivy attended Napier College and played a principal role in an operetta (“Pearl, the Fisher Maiden”) put on by the upper and middle school students as a charity concert at Christmas in 1913 (Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian: Friday 19th December 1913). Ivy married a “sales rep” (representative) named Harold John Buck, in 1925. Note that the “Mrs Pinsent” who, along with Mr. W. H. Dickenson. M.P. and others, contributed to a discussion on “Mental Deficiency” at a “Walthamstow Women’s Liberal Association” meeting in June 1913 was probably Ellen Frances Pinsent. I don’t know if Jessie Maud attended!
Frederick Charles and Jessie had moved to #105 Forest Road, in Walthamstow, by 1911, and they lived there with their with their two children, Ivy, and a son, Victor Charles Pinsent. Frederick’s parents, Frederick and Hannah, moved up from Hackney to join them in the early 1900s. Frederick “senior” helped his son manage a coffee stall. Frederick Charles described himself as being a “master caterer” when he registering the birth of his son in 1907.
Interestingly, Frederick Charles “of Clifton Avenue, Walthamstow,” was summoned before Mr. Leycester at the North London Police Court in March 1917 for selling tobacco at a coffee-stall after 9 p.m., contrary to the – presumably war-time – regulations). Apparently, he could sell a cigar or cigarette to a customer to enjoy with his meal but not sell him tobacco to go. The magistrate saw no particular evil intent at play, and he said: “I shall fine you only 5s. Don’t do it again!” (Ilsington Gazette: 23rd March 1917).
Frederick Charles Pinsent was over forty-three years old on 5th July 1918 – when he joined the “Royal Air Force.” He signed on for the duration of the war – which was, in fact, nearly over. He passed his medical and was described as being 5 ft. 3 in. in height, with a 31 ½ in chest, fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. He signed on as a Pte. 2nd Class and trained as an “Aircraft hand (A.C.H.)”. Frederick Charles was given a very good character rating (British Royal Air Force Records, Airmen’s Service Records (1912 -1939): findmypast) and on leaving the Air Force, on 27th February 1919 he transferred to the “R.A.F. Reserve.”
After the war, Frederick Charles rejoined Jessie Maud and their two children in Walthamstow. He went back into the catering business and the 1921 census shows that he was a “refreshment caterer, working on own account at 71 Dalston Lane.” It was a business he ran with his father, Frederick, who lived next door at #73 Dalston Lane. Jessie Maud had household duties to attend to, and their daughter Ivy Lilian worked as a “shorthand typist” for “William Warne, Rubber Manufacturers” on Gresham Street, in London E.C. 2. Frederick Charles’s son Victor Charles was still at school. The household included a boarder.
The Pinsent family was still living on Clifton Avenue when the second world war started in 1939. Frederick Charles’s parents had died by then, but Frederick Charles and Jessie still owned their Dalston Lane property. At least, they still held it in 1932 (London, England Electoral Register: 1846-1965).
Frederick Charles died in Langthorne Hospital, in Essex, in September 1951 and his widow, Jessie Maud, who was still to be found at #18 Clifton Avenue as late as 1962, died in 1967.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1812 -1863
Grandmother: Mary Fullick: 1812 – 1852
PARENTS
Father: Frederick Pinsent: 1852 – 1929
Mother: Hannah Jane Jenner: 1847 – 1926
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Mary Ann Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – 1868
Thomas Pinsent: 1836 – 1838
Charles Pinsent: 1837 – 1862
George Pinsent: 1840 – 1875
Amelia Pinsent: 1842 – 1901
Alice Pinsent: 1844 – xxxx
Eliza Pinsent: 1846 – 1847
Alfred Pinsent: 1848 – 1919
Henry James Pinsent: 1850 – 1853
Georgiana Caroline Pinsent: 1854 – xxxx
Eliza Marian Pinsent: 1856 – 1857
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Frederick Charles Pinsent: 1875 – 1951
Thomas Benjamin Pinsent: 1876 – 1877
Alfred Charles Pinsent: 1881 – 1942
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