Vital Statistics
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949 GRO0430
Eveline Maud Holt: 1879 – 1946
Married: Leicester, Leicestershire: 1903
Children by Eveline Maud Holt:
John Holt Pinsent: 1904 – 1970
Florence Pinsent: 1906 – 1906
Katherine Sarah Pinsent: 1907 – 1907
James Leonard Pinsent: 1908 – 1978
Kathleen Pinsent: 1911 – 2003
Thomas William Pinsent: 1912 – 1986
Eveline Mary Pinsent: 1915 – xxxx
Beatrice Margaret Pinsent: 1919 – 2004
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0430
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Horace was the youngest son of John Pinsent by his wife, Elizabeth (née Johnson). He was born in 1879. He was the last of eleven children the couple had over a period of twenty-four years. He grew up in Leicester, and the census records show that he was living with his parents and a selection of elder siblings on Birstall Street in 1881. The family moved to Bedford Street, where Horace’s parents ran the “Sir Robert Peel” beer-house, a few years later. The census records also tell us that he was a “schoolboy” living at home in 1891; however, he was likely put to work in the shoe business shortly thereafter – as very few boys in his social class stayed in school much after the age of twelve. In 1895, Horace and another boy were summoned for “disorderly conduct in Fennell Street.” What they were up to was left unstated but they were both discharged with a caution (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 12th January 1895).
Horace’s father died in 1899 and his mother moved to Southdown Road, in West Humberstone, Leicester; so that was where the census takers caught up with Horace two years later. Elizabeth (née Johnson) was then living with her son, Horace, one of her grandsons, John Arthur Pinsent, and an unrelated lodger. The three young men were all “shoe finishers.” John Arthur was the son of Elizabeth’s eldest son, Thomas Johnson Pinsent.
Horace went on to become a “shoe riveter” who married Eveline Maud Holt (a “hosiery machinist”) in Leicester, in 1903, and set up house on Tudor Road in Leicester. Horace and Eveline had eight children (three boys and five girls) over the next fifteen years; however, some of them died young. Although they had had four children by 1911 only two, John Holt Pinsent and James Leonard Pinsent were living when the census was taken in 1911. Their later children, Kathleen Pinsent, Thomas William Pinsent, Eveline Mary Pinsent and Beatrice Margaret Pinsent all survived and – with the exception of Beatrice – all married.
When the census takers next called, in 1921, they found Horace, and his wife and family, still living on Tudor Street. He was then a “machine operator in the lasting room” of “F. J. Palfreyman & Co. Ltd., Boot and Shoe Manufacturers” in North Evington. His eldest son, John Holt, who was only sixteen, was also involved in the shoe trade – he was working in the press room of “H. Argyle & Co. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,” on Holme Street in Leicester. Horace’s younger children, James Leonard (13), Kathleen (9), Thomas William (8) and Eveline Mary (6) were all at at school, however, his youngest, Beatrice M. (2) was still at home with her mother who, of course, had “household duties” to attend to.
Kelly’s Directories for 1912, 1925 and 1928 show that Horace was in fact a “riveter” who, for a while, lived on Tudor Road with his Holt in-laws. He was still living there when the War-time Register was compiled in 1939. On that occasion, he was described as being a “bottom leveler and boot and shoe hand” who was living with his wife, Eveline and four of their children; Thomas W., who was an “engineer’s fitter;” Kathleen, who has a “hosiery cutter,” Eveline M., a “hosiery machinist”, and Beatrice M. who was also a “hosiery machinist.” She had signed up as an “A.R.P. (Voluntary Air Raid Precaution) Dispatch Rider”. Presumably his in-laws had long-since died. The Register has been modified to show that Eveline later became Eveline Haywood. The change must have been made after she married James William Haywood – son of Samuel – in December 1939. He was probably her brother John Holt Pinsent‘s brother-in-law He had married Florence May Haywood – daughter of Samuel – in 1929.
Eveline Maud Pinsent “of 103 Tudor Road,” died in the “General Hospital”, in Gwendolen Road in Leicester, in June 1946 and her husband, Horace, was granted “Letters of Administration” for her estate, valued at £267. He died in Great Yarmouth, three years later, and his estate, which was valued at £673, was administered by his son John Holt Pinsent (who was then a “nursing orderly”) and his daughter sister Beatrice Margaret Pinsent (who was a “nurse”) A year later, the family placed an “In Memoriam” notice in the Leicester Daily Mercury (Saturday 16th September 1950).
Kathleen Pinsent “late of 103 Tudor Road, Leicester” emigrated to the United States of America shortly after the Second World War. She boarded the Cunard Ship “Queen Mary” bound for New York in November 1947 and married Sigurd Baro, in Brooklyn, New York on 23rd December. Presumably he was a United States serviceman who had been stationed in England during the war.
Kathleen’s sister Beatrice went out to America to visit her in November 1950. She traveled as a tourist on the Cunard Ship “Queen Elizabeth” and arrived in New York on 6th November (New York Passenger Lists: 1820-1957). She was a “nurse” who may well have gone out to witness the birth of an American niece.
Kathleen was still living in Brooklyn when she received her “Certificate of Alien Admission” to the United States on 14th December 1954 (U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794 – 1995). Kathleen Baro (née Pinsent) returned to England with a young daughter on the Cunard Ship “Saxonia” in 1957 (U.K. Incoming Passenger Lists: 1878 – 1960: Findmypast). She gave her contact address in England as Chorley in Lancashire – which strongly suggests she was planning to stay with her brother James Leonard Pinsent and his family! Kathleen died in America in 2003 and her sister Beatrice died in North Devon in 2004. Beatrice died in North Devon in 2004.
Horace and Eveline Maud’s three sons all married. John Holt Pinsent married Florence May Haywood in Leicester, in 1929 and, as noted above, his younger sister, Eveline Mary Pinsent, seems to have married Florence’s brother James William Haywood ten years later. James Leonard Pinsent married Irene Bradshaw in 1927 and Thomas William Pinsent married Iris Winifred Bliss in 1940. All three had children. Their lives are discussed elsewhere.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Grandmother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871
PARENTS
Father: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Mother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Fanny Pinsent: 1820 – 1880
William Pinsent: 1822 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1824 – 1831
Caroline Pinsent: 1825 – 1864
James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – 1833
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
Henry Pinsent: 1838 – 1846
George Pinsent: 1839 – 1857
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
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