Vital Statistics
James Leonard Pinsent: 1908 – 1978 GRO0456
Irene Bradshaw: 1908 – 1977
Married: 1927: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Irene Bradshaw:
Patricia Pinsent: 1927 – 1928
Neville Pinsent: 1930 – 2006
Colin Pinsent: 1934 – 1935
Daughter (GRO0050)
Son (GRO0374)
Daughter (GRO0484)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0456
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James Leonard was the second son of Horace Pinsent, a “shoe riveter,” by his wife Eveline Maud (née Holt). He was born in Leicester and grew up on Tudor Street with two brothers and three sisters. He was brought up to be polite – and as a teenager he thank “Nunkie” at the Leicester Chronicle after hearing that he had won a fountain pen for solving a diamond puzzle published in the paper (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 11th February 1922). James went to school in Leicester and he had become a “motor mechanic” by the time he married Irene Bradshaw in 1927. She was the daughter of a “shoe hand”. James Leonard’s brother John Holt Pinsent witnessed the marriage. The Electoral Registers (1920-1932) show that James lived with his in-laws on Rydal Street in 1930 and 1931 (findmypast).
James Leonard and Irene had six children (three girls and three boys) between 1927 and 1948; however, two of them, Patricia Pinsent and Colin Pinsent died in infancy. By the time the War-time Register was compiled in 1939, James and Eveline were living on Valence Road in Leicester two of their children, Neville Pinsent (a schoolboy) and Daughter (GRO0050) (a toddler). Leonard had driven taxis before the war but he was listed as a “Funeral Service Driver and Assistant” in the Register. He signed on for “A.R.P.” duties – and was probably an “Air Raid Warden”.
After the war, James Leonard continued to be an “undertaker.” He moved his family to Chorley, in Lancashire, around 1950 and his children all married on the west of the Pennine Chain, in the 1950s and/or 1960s. Travel manifests show that Leonard’s sister Kathleen Baro headed for Lancashire when she brought her young daughter to England to see her siblings in 1957 (U.K. Incoming Passenger Lists: 1878 – 1960: Findmypast).
Irene (née Bradshaw) died in Chorley, in June 1977. James Leonard died in Chorley in 1978 (England & Wales: National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations: 1858 – 1995). James’s son Neville’s life is briefly discussed elsewhere.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
PARENTS
Father: Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
Mother: Eveline Maud Holt: 1879 – 1946
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
John Holt Pinsent: 1904 – 1970
Thomas William Pinsent: 1912 – 1986
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