Vital Statistics
George Henry Pinsent: 1844 – 1915 GRO0351 (Tailor; London)
(1) Amelia Pinsent: 1842 – 1901
Married: 1874: London, Middlesex
(2) Eliza Mason: 1854 – 1935
Married: 1901: Stratford, Essex
Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0351
George Henry was the eldest and only surviving son of George Pinsent, a “Journeyman tailor,” by his wife Elizabeth (née Leatt). He was born in his mother’s home parish of St. Paul’s in the Covent Garden area of London. He grew up in London with an ever growing number of brothers and sisters.
The Census records show that George Henry was a “scholar” in 1851 and a “porter” in the market at Convent Garden a decade on. George Henry then became a “private” serving with the “Royal Marines” on “H.M.S. Pylades”; however, he left in time to marry his cousin, Amelia Pinsent (1842 – 1901), in Stepney, in 1874. She was his Uncle Charles’s daughter.
George Henry was a “tailor,” like his father and, although Amelia had grown up in her father’s “cheese-shop,” she took up her husband’s trade. They had no children of their own but adopted a daughter Eleanor Lee Pinsent (a.k.a. “Nellie L. Pinsent.”) who was eight years old when the census takers called in 1881. Presumably, she too learnt to cut and sew. The records show that although the family was living in Tower Hamlets, in London in 1881, it had relocated and settled in Albert Square in Stratford, in Essex, by 1891. Ten years on, in 1901, George was reported to be a “breeches tailor” living with his wife Amelia (who was by than an “assistant tailor”) and their unmarried daughter Eleanor L. – who was a “home worker”. Interestingly, the census records shows that they had a visitor, “William A. May – a tailor who was working on his own account” with them. Eleanor Lee Pinsent married William Arthur May in North Peckham, Southwark, in December 1902. Her father by adoption, George Henry Pinsent, was present and signed the register as a witness. Sadly, her “mother” Amelia did not live to see the wedding. She died of cancer in May, 1901. Perhaps her death, and her “father” decision to remarry freed Eleanor up to marry.
George went on to marry a “butcher’s” daughter, Eliza Mason, in St. Paul’s church in Stratford later that same year (1901). Eliza’s mother seems to have suffered a stroke and moved into the family home on Churchill Road, and her daughter was with her when she accidentally fell and died (Eastern Argus and Borough of Hackney Times: Saturday 27th August 1906).
George Henry and Eliza were still living in Churchill Road when the census takers returned in 1911. He was a “gentleman’s tailor,” who had, evidently, not forgotten his roots. They erroneously stated that he had been born in Newton Abbot in Devon! George died in Homerton in November 1915. Eliza went to live with her niece, Ellen Crisp and her husband, Edward Crisp, who was a “hostler” employed by the brewers, “William Fuller and Son, Provision Merchants” of Homerton. She was still living in the Hackney area when she died in 1935.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1754 – 1841
Grandmother: Elizabeth Pridham: 1763 – 1821
Parents
Father: George Pinsent: 1814 – 1894
Mother: Elizabeth Leatt: 1822 – 1890
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
Charles Pinsent: 1812 – 1863
George Pinsent: 1814 – 1894
Male Siblings (Brothers)
George Henry Pinsent: 1844 – 1915
Thomas Charles Pinsent: 1845 – 1868
William John Pinsent: 1848 – 1849
Walter Pinsent: 1860 – 1863
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