Vital Statistics
Alfred Pinsent: 1902 – 1977 (Commissionaire and Receptionist, Benfleet, Essex)
Annie Henrietta Brightman: 1907 – 1999
Married: 1930: London, Middlesex
Children by Annie Henrietta Brightman:
Daughter (GRO0113)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0019
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Alfred Pinsent was the third and youngest surviving son of Thomas Henry Pinsent by his wife, Bessie Ada (née Penn). He was born on Norway Street, in Holborn, in London, shortly after the death of one of two (short-lived) sisters. Alfred and two of his brothers were baptized in St. Luke’s Church in Finsbury on 5th September 1905 (London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms: 1894 – 1916). However, the family later moved to Frome Street in Shoreditch and Arthur and one of his cousins, Violet Pinsent, were admitted to the, nearby, Gopsall Street School on the same date (15th April 1907). She was the daughter of Alfred’s uncle William John Pinsent. Alfred’s schooling would have overlapped with that of another cousin, Violet’s brother Bertram Horace Pinsent. The two families clearly were well known to each other.
Alfred’s father, Thomas Henry Pinsent, was a “packer” employed by the “Wesleyan Methodist Society” who died in 1910, while Alfred and his siblings were still young. It fell to their mother (Bessie Ada (née Penn) to bring them up by herself. The census records shows that the family was still living on Frome Street in 1911. Alfred was too young to serve in the armed forces in 1914, and it is not clear what he did when he left school – during or shortly after the First World War. Nevertheless, he later joined the army and was a member of the Royal Corps of Signals at the Headquarters of the 2nd British Silesian Brigade, when the census was taken in 1921.
Alfred was a “Commissionaire” living on Rheidol Terrace when he married Annie Henrietta Brightman, in St. Peter’s Church, Islington, in 1930, and he was a “Commissionaire and Office Receptionist” when the Wartime Register was compiled in 1939. Alfred had moved to “Ivydene” in Benefleet, in Essex, by then, and he was then living with his wife, Annie H. Pinsent, (who – predictably – had “unpaid domestic duties” to attend to) and his mother Bessie Pinsent (a “retired domestic”).
Alfred rejoined the army as a “signalman” in the R.C.S. (Royal Corps. of Signals) in 1944 – which was the year his only child, a daughter, was born. She married in the 1960s. I do not know what Alfred got up to after the Second World War. However, I do know that he died in Southend on Sea in Essex in 1977 and his widow, Annie Pinsent, died in Thurrock, in Essex, in 1999.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
PARENTS
Father: Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Mother: Bessie Ada Penn: 1872 – 1964
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
George James Pinsent: 1859 – 1860
James Walter Pinsent: 1861 – 1948
Sarah Lydia Pinsent: 1863 – 1942
Joseph Benjamin Pinsent: 1865 – 1897
Louisa Mary Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918
Martha Elizabeth Pinsent: 1871 – xxxx
Georgina Frances Pinsent: 1875 – xxxx
Albert Hibbard Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
Edward Charles Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Joseph James Pinsent: 1897 – 1923
James Valentine Pinsent: 1908 – 1908
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