Vital Statistics
John Michael Pinsent: 1930 – 2004 GRO0527 (xxxx, xxxx)
Joan Margaret Wilson: 1932 – 2016
Married: 1966: Birmingham, Warwickshire
Children by Joan M. Wilson:
Daughter (GRO1000)
Son (GRO1001)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0527
References
John Michael was the only son of Harold West Pinsent by his wife, Lilian Mary (née Kirk). He was born in Leicester in 1930 and grew up in Ilkley in Yorkshire where his father managed a leather works. He was, evidently, artistic and he entered at least one of his paintings in “Ilkley Arts Club’s” annual show in 1950. The Bradford Observer’s correspondent noted “Joan Day’s “canal” has more warmth, richness and spaciousness than its title, and John M. Pinsent shows a spirit of adventure, while G. N. Rotheray has some good tones in a modest water colour. …” (Bradford Observer: Wednesday 25th October 1950).
John Michael was still with his parents when they moved to Bramscote Hills, in Nottingham, later in the 1950s and the family announced his engagement to Jean F. Nelson in the autumn of 1956 (Liverpool Echo: Thursday 29th November 1956); however, I can find no evidence that they married.
John Michael married Joan M. Wilson, in Birmingham in 1966 (Nottingham Evening Post: Thursday 27th October 1966). Joan finished her nurse’s training at “Guy’s Hospital” in London the following August (U.K. and Ireland Nursing Registers: 1898-1968). What John Michael did for a living, I am not sure. The couple seem to have had at least two children, a son and a daughter while living in Birmingham in the early 1960s. They are probably alive today. John Michael died in Reddich, Worcestershire, in 2004 and his wife died in Bodmin, Cornwall, in 2016.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945
Grandmother: Hannah West: 1865 – 1934
Parents
Father: Harold West Pinsent: 1900 – 1962
Mother: Lilian Mary Kirk: 1902 – 1977
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1978
Doris Mabel Pinsent: 1897 – 1898
Harold West Pinsent: 1900 – 1962
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