Vital Statistics
Herbert Frederick Pinsent: 1917 – 1992 GRO1655 (Accountant, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Edna Gray: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1940: Edmonton, Alberta
Children by Edna Gray:
Morley Edward Pinsent: 1943 – 2017 (Married (1) Lynda Jean Rae, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx; (2) Wife (GRO1847), xxxx xxxx, xxxx)
Daughter (GRO1660)
Daughter (GRO1661)
Son (GRO1662)
Son (GRO1663)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1655
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Herbert Frederick Pinsent was the third and youngest son of George Hibbard Pinsent by his wife Amelia. He was born and grew up in Lloydminster, in Saskatchewan, where his father was Methodist/Baptist preacher who worked in a “general store”. The family lived at Fort Pitt, near Battleford, Saskatchewan and that was where the Canada Census takers found them in 1921. Herbert had two brothers and a sister.
Herbert served in the Canadian armed forces during the Second World War and he joined the “civil service” as it came to an end. Herbert married Edna (née Gray) in 1940 and Canada’s post-war voters’ lists show that they had settled in Edmonton by May 1945. Herbert became an “accountant” – who was, presumably, working on his own behalf by 1957.
Herbert and Edna had at least five children, (three boys and two (possibly three) girls) in the 1940s and 1950s. Private on-line sources suggest that had a short-lived daughter, Diane Jean Pinsent who died in 1941; however, I have yet to locate her. The family moved around the city but Herbert was still living in Edmonton as late as 1974 (Canada Voters’ Lists). However, he appears to have also had an office in Calgary, that year. His younger daughter worked in the University of Alberta library for a while in the early 1970s and met her when I was a student. I do not know which of us was the more shocked!
Herbert died in Ottawa, in Ontario, in October 1992. I do not know when or where his wife died.
Herbert’s five surviving children all married and they may well have children who are alive today. His eldest son, Morley Edward Pinsent, married twice and had six children. He was a fishery-biologist. He bought a small (50 acres) homestead on Prince Edward Island and settled there in the early 1970s. Morley and his first wife, Lynda, went back to living off the land. Their early experiences, as described in a local Prince Edward Island newspaper can be found online: [www.theguardian.pe.ca/Agriculture/2005-05-23/article1300265/Back-to-the-beginning/1]. Morley died in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 2017.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother:Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
PARENTS
Father: George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953
Mother: Amelia P. Unknown: 1883 – 1958
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
Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Georgina Frances Pinsent: 1875 – xxxx
Albert Hibbard Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
Edward Charles Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Roy J. Pinsent: 1912 – 1975
Clifford George Pinsent: 1916 – 2002
Albert Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
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