Vital Statistics
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882 GRO0123
Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
Married: Leicester, Leicestershire: 1864
Children by Susannah Bagshaw:
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Annie Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx
Harriet Pinsent: 1875 – 1959
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
Florence Pinsent: 1880 – 1901
Maria Pinsent: 1885 – 1943 * Illegitimate
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0123
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Charles was the youngest son of Thomas Pinsent by his wife Hannah (née Johnson). He was born in 1842 – over twenty years after his eldest sibling – a sister called Fanny Pinsent. Charles’ father was a “cordwainer” or “shoemaker” from Tiverton in Devon who moved to his wife’s home town of Loughborough in around 1834/5. Charles was born while the family was living on Holland Street in Loughborough (1841 Census data). The family had moved to Barrow Street by the time the next census was taken, in 1851.
Thomas’s boys left school and entered the workforce at around the age of twelve. In Loughborough, that meant taking some sort of job in the then growing shoe manufacturing business. Charles dutifully followed his father into the shoe trade. The 1861 Census tells us that he was a “shoe-maker.” He was a “shoe-clicker” when he married Susannah Bagshaw, the daughter of a Leicester “loom hand,” in 1864. They settled in the nearby city of Leicester and had three sons, (George Henry Pinsent, Walter Pinsent and Ernest Alfred Pinsent) and four daughters, (Elizabeth Pinsent, Annie Pinsent, Harriet Pinsent and Florence Pinsent) in the years that followed. Charles’s elder brothers, James Pinsent and John Pinsent both followed him and moved their families there shortly afterwards. Leicester was at the heart of the shoe industry and they may have felt that job prospects were better. James arrived in 1865 and John in 1868/9. The boys’ mother Hannah stayed on in Loughborough after her husband died in 1860. She died there in 1871.
The local papers tell us that Charles’s wife, Susannah was charged with verbally threatening a neighbour, Annie Warren, during an altercation that occurred in a shop in May 1869. Susannah argued that the threats actually came from the complainant “because she had asked her for a shilling.” The Magistrates – clearly not wishing to get involved – dismissed the case (Leicester Journal: Friday 28th May 1869). In the meantime, Charles and Susannah went about bringing up their young family on Buckingham Street (1871 Census data). They had moved their then somewhat larger family to Walnut Street by the time the next census was taken, in 1881. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth Pinsent was a “shoe machinist” by then and her younger siblings were either “scholars” or still at home. Kelly’s Directory confirms the address; stating that Charles was a “boot & shoe maker” living at 53 Walnut Street in Leicester in 1881.
Charles was an early “anti-vaccer”. In June 1881 he was fined 10s for failure to comply with the Vaccination Act (Leicester Daily Mercury: Friday 3rd June 1881). He died in April, the following year and his widow, Susannah (née Bradshaw) was left to look after seven children between the ages of one and fifteen years old.
Susannah had an illegitimate daughter, Maria Pinsent, in 1885, which would have added to the problem. Maria was brought up with the rest of the family. The 1891 Census shows that Susannah’s two eldest children, Elizabeth and George Henry Pinsent had married and moved out; however, the others were still at home. The four eldest, Walter, Annie, Harriet and Ernest Alfred Pinsent were working in the shoe trade. Florence and Marie were scholars. The family lived on Ridley Street.
Susannah married a “framework knitter”, William Lockwood, in 1893 and drops out of sight for almost twenty years – presumably became she became “Mrs. Lockwood”. Perhaps Mr. Lockwood died as she reappears as “Mrs. Pinsent” in the 1911 Census. She was living on West Holme Street with her daughter Maria, a single “working boot machinist” and one of her grandsons, Walter Pinsent, who worked “in a clicking room”. He was the son of her youngest son, Ernest Alfred Pinsent. In answer to the census question, Susannah said she had had eight children and only one (presumably one of her married daughters) had since died. It was an impressive achievement in those days.
Florence married William Riley in 1901 and was living with him and a young, school-aged, daughter on Beaconsfield Road in Leicester when the 1921 census was taken. She was a “housewife” and her husband was a “boot and shoe repairer”. Florence’s sister Maria, who was a “shoe machinist” employed by the “Co-operative Shoe works” was living with them – as was a widowed “dyer’s labourer.”
It is not clear when Susannah died. She may have been buried under the name of Susannah Lockwood. Charles and Susannah left three sons who married and went on to extend this branch of the TIVERTON family line.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1769 – 1833
Grandmother: Hannah Brimson: 1766 – xxxx
PARENTS
Father: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Mother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
William Pinsent: 1792 – 1844
Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860 ✔️
Anne Pinsent: 1799 – 1801
Richard Pinsent: 1799 – xxxx
Fanny Pinsent: 1804 – xxxx
Jane Pinsent: 1804 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
William Pinsent: 1822 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1824 – 1831
James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Henry Pinsent: 1838 – 1846
George Pinsent: 1839 – 1857
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882 ✔️
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