Vital Statistics
Ernest Pinsent: 1926 – 2021 GRO0271 (Electrical Engineer, Wigston, Leicestershire)
Florence May Goode: 1926 – 1987
Married: 1951: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Florence May Goode:
Stephen Ernest Pinsent: 1957 – 2022
Daughter: GRO0549
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0271
Ernest was the only son of Arthur Ernest Pinsent by his wife Lily (née Gallifant). He was born in Knighton in Leicester, where his father was a “shoe hand” who seems to have also worked for his father in his grocer’s shop on Clarendon Road. He was an “electrician” when he married Florence Maye Goode, an “accounting machine operator”, in St. John The Baptist Church in Knighton, in Leicester in 1951. In the years that followed, they had two children, a son, Stephen Ernest and a daughter.
The two children joined the “Leicester Knighton Fields Swimming Club” while at primary school and they went on to become successful competitive swimmers (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 12th November 1968). They both competed in local, district and national events throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s. Stephen, for instance, came second in in the 100 yards freestyle at the “Leicestershire ASA Junior and Open Swimming Championships” in January 1976 while his sister who was, if anything, more successful than he was came first in the girls 200 yards freestyle event (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 27th January 1976). In 1974, she was awarded a trophy at the “Leicester Amateur Swimming Association” annual meeting for having the fastest time for the 100 yards the county in her class the previous year (Leicester Daily Mercury: Friday 1st March 1974). The swim meets came thick and fast during the winter months in the 1970s and their successes and failures are well documented in the Leicester Daily Mercury and other papers. Ernest was also a swimmer. He was a member of the Leicester Club’s men’s relay team at a “Masters Tournament” (men aged over 35 years) in 1973 (Leicester Daily Mercury: Wednesday 23rd October 1973). He was the Leicester boys “team manager” when they traveled to one of their meets the following year (Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 21st September 1974.
The siblings were not the only Pinsents splashing around in the pool in those days. A distant cousin swam for the “Belgrave Swimming Club” (Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 26th October 1972) and later played water polo for the “Fosseway” team (Leicester Daily Mercury: Monday 7th May 1973).
Ernest’s family lived at Denmead Avenue, in Wigston Fields, a suburb of Leicester in the 1970s but later moved a short distance to Newton Lane. Florence May Pinsent died there in June 1987 (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 16th June 1987). She left a personal estate of less than £70,000 (England and Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995).
Ernest stayed on in the family home and after he retired, he became a director of a couple of limited companies (EINW Ltd. #01049374 and WMS Ltd. #02509524) involved in making electrical installations. However, he was not affiliated with them for long as he resigned from both of them in 1993 (Companies House). His daughter married in 1980 but his son Stephen Ernest appears to have remained single – or at least I am not aware of any marriage. Ernest and his son were living together in the family home on Newton Lane as late as 2012 (U.K. Electoral Registers) and that is likely where they were when he died, aged 95, in December 2021.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
PARENTS
Father: Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Mother: Lily Gallifant: 1900 – 1994
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
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