Vital Statistics
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009 GRO0093
Kathleen Hilda Goodwin: 1924 – 2015
Married: 1945: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Kathleen Hilda Goodwin:
Daughter (GRO0199)
Son (GRO0709)
Son (GRO0715)
Daughter (GRO0675)
Daughter (GRO0623)
Daughter (GRO1020)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0093
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Bernard Wilfred was the second eldest son of Wilfred Pinsent by his wife Louie Irene (née Bassford). He was born in Leicester and grew up in a grocery store and off-license on Martin Street. I know little about his early life; however, he had the misfortune of falling in the street and fracturing his arm at the age fourteen (Leicester Daily Mercury: Wednesday 29th March 1939). He trained to be a “construction engineer” after leaving school. He was too young to serve during the Second World War.
Bernard married Kathleen Hilda Goodwin; who was a “hosiery worker,” in Leicester in 1945 and he was an “engineer’s template maker” when his first child (a daughter) was born in 1947. Bernard and Hilda had a second child (a son) the following year and then move to Farnborough in Hampshire where Bernard was employed as an “engineer’s draughtsman.” Being Farnborough, he may well have studied aeronautical engineering. Bernard’s second son and daughter were born in 1953 (twins) and two more daughters followed; one in 1955, and one considerably later, in 1967. The children all attended Cove County School in the 1960s. Sadly, one of the girls was injured when motor-cyclist lost control, mounted the pavement and hit both her and a lamp post (Aldershot News: Friday 26th January 1968).
All of Bernard Wilfred’s children grew to adulthood. His two sons appear to have married twice – and had sons by one or other of their wives. The line should continue.
Bernard and Kathleen moved to Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, in Suffolk at some point prior to 1974; which is when their second son married for the first time. They stayed on there and their extended family seem to have married and settled in Suffolk.
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent, of Oulton, died in October 2009 (Lowestoft Journal: 16th October 2009) four days before his younger brother, Neville Pinsent died in Nottingham (Leicestershire Mercury: 17th October 2009). Kathleen lived to be ninety years old. She eventually died in Lowestoft in June 2015 (Lowestoft Journal: 12th June 2015).
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
PARENTS
Father: Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Mother: Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000
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