Vital Statistics
John Holt Pinsent: 1904 – 1970 GRO0524
Florence May Haywood: 1905 – 1989
Married: 1929: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Florence May Haywood:
Daughter (GRO0619)
Stephen Pinsent: 1946 – 2009
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0524
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John Holt Pinsent was the eldest son of Horace Pinsent by his wife, Eveline Maud (née Holt). He was born in Leicester and grew up on Tudor Street with three sisters (Kathleen, Eveline Mary and Beatrice Margaret Pinsent) and two younger brothers (James Leonard and Thomas William Pinsent).
John followed his father into the shoe business and was a “shoe hand” when he married Florence May Haywood in 1929. They had two children, a daughter who arrived shortly after they married and a late son (Stephen Pinsent) who was born in 1946.
Stephen married Janet Harriman (née Freer) in 1987. He would have been forty-one years old at the time. I am and not aware of his having had an earlier marriage. Janet certainly had: on-line trees (Ancestery.com) suggest she brought several Harriman children into the marriage. Stephen and Janet likely had at least one son of their own.
Janet Pinsent (née Freer) died in Leicester in May 2008 (Staffordshire Sentinel: 15th May 2008) and her husband Stephen died there the following year (Leicester Mercury: 19th January 2009).
In the 1930s, John Holt Pinsent was still working in the boot and shoe industry. He went to live with his “in-laws” on Beatrice Street in Leicester, and by the time the War-time Register came to be compiled in 1939, he was living with his wife Florence, his widowed mother-in-law, and one of her sons, James William Haywood (a “boot and shoe worker”). Mr. Haywood married John’s sister Eveline Mary Pinsent later that year. John Holt signed up as an “Air Raid Warden” and his experiences in wartime may explain why he switched to nursing when it ended. The Register shows one closed (redacted) record attached to the household. This was probably John Holt and Florence’s daughter. She would have been a schoolgirl at the time.
The family stayed on in Leicester after the war. John took nurses training in London and received his qualifications in 1950 (U.K. & Ireland Nursing Register: 1898 – 1968: Ancestry.com).
John Holt Pinsent died in Leicester in 1970, and his widow died there in 1989.
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)
James Leonard Pinsent: 1908 – 1978
Thomas William Pinsent: 1912 – 1986
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