Vital Statistics
Alfred James Pinsent: 1920 – 1992 (Soldier, Welder, Fitter and Heating Engineer, Wigan, Lancashire)
Jane Barlow: 1926 – 2012
Married: 1945: Wigan, Lancashire; 1961: Ince, Lancashire.
Children by Jane Barlow:
Margaret Ann Pinsent: 1946 – 1995
Son (GRO0498)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0026
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Alfred James was the eldest surviving son of Thomas William Pinsent by his wife, Florence (née Perkins). He was born in London where his father was a “railway porter” who had served in the Army during the First World War. Thomas William joined the Royal Air Force as an “Aircraftsman” in 1923 and his son Alfred James and his siblings, a younger brother and two sisters, grew up in Andover, Hampshire, where his father was stationed. At some point, Thomas William left the Royal Air Force and moved his family to Thurrock in Essex, where he had become a General Post Office (GPO) “postman” by 1937.
Alfred James and his siblings came off-age during the Second World War. Alfred joined up, and he was a “sergeant” in the Royal Artillery based in Oswestry, in Shropshire, when he married Jane Barlow, a “private” in the Auxiliary Territorial Service A.T.S., in November 1945. They married in Wigan, in Lancashire, and in the years that followed had a son and daughter.
Alfred became a “fitter and welder” and a “heating engineer” in Standish (which is part of Wigan) after the war. Sadly, their marriage did not last. It was dissolved in April 1960 but the couple tried again and remarried in Ince (a few miles away) in March 1961. The family continued to live in Standish until around 1972 (British Telephone Books: 1880 – 1984: Ancestry.com). However, the couple later settled in Paignton on the South Coast. of Devon. Presumably this was so that they might be closer to where their married son and his sons lived. Alfred James died in Torquay in 1992 and Jane died in Newquay, in Cornwall, in 2012. Their line may well continue.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Grandmother: Bessie Ada Penn: 1872 – 1964
PARENTS
Father: Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Mother: Florence Perkins: 1896 – 1947
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Jessie Harriet Pinsent: 1893 – 1898
Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Joseph James Pinsent: 1897 – 1923
Bessie Louisa Pinsent: 1900 – 1902
Alfred Pinsent: 1902 – 1977
James Valentine Pinsent: 1908 – 1908
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Thomas William Pinsent: 1916 – 1923
Alfred James Pinsent: 1920 – 1992
George Albert Pinsent: 1924 – xxxx
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