Vital Statistics
Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979 GRO1420 (Railway employee, London, Middlesex)
Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Kaylor: 1902 – 1979
Married: 1921: London, Middlesex
Children by Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Kaylor:
Elizabeth Rose Pinsent: 1922 – 1924
Marguerite Maud Lilian Pinsent: 1923 – xxxx
Daughter (GRO0682)
Philip Sidney David Pinsent: 1929 – 2015
Son (GRO0455)
Henry George Pinsent: 1933 – 2016 (Married Patricia Anne Lock, Deal, Kent, 1958)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1420
Sidney Henry was the second eldest son of William John Pinsent by his wife Rose Emeline (née Parsons). He was born in Shoreditch in London, and he grew up there with three brothers and four sisters who – were born over a twenty-one year period. His father was a Covent Garden “market porter” and “fruit and vegetable salesman” who served in the British army during the First World War and had the misfortune of dying of influenza just as it was coming to an end.
Sidney’s parents, William John Pinsent and Rose Emeline were living at #7 Tyssen Street, in Hackney, in 1898 when their sons, William and Sidney, enrolled at “Hamond Square School” (Hamond Square School: Hackney: Admission and Discharge Register for Infants). However, by the time the census takers made their rounds in 1911, the family had relocated to three-rooms at #51 Poole Street in Hoxton . Sidney was, by then, an “errand boy for a grocer.”
Sidney Henry Pinsent enlisted in the army in November 1914. He was nineteen years old at the time. He served as Private and acting Corporal in the “Essex Regiment” [#2441] before being promoted to Lance Corporal [#211150] in the “Bedford and Herts. Regiment”. He saw service over-seas and after the war was awarded the “Victory” and “British” Medals. He left the regiment in March 1919 (British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards 1914-1920).
After the war, Sidney lived on Poole Street in Shoreditch with his widowed mother and developed a packing case dealer ship with his brother Leonard. The 1921 census shows that they worked from home; however Sydney married Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Kaylor (usually known as Elizabeth) in Hoxton in December 1921 and, presumably, moved out. Sydney and Louise had three sons and three daughters. Sadly, they got off to a bad start. Their first born, Elizabeth Rose Pinsent, died when she was only 23 months old. She is buried in Chingford Mount Cemetery in Hoxton. Their other children were more fortunate, they lived to maturity.
The Electoral Rolls show that the family was living in Abingdon Buildings in Tower Hamlets (Bethnal Green) when their son Philip was born in the late 1920s. Jobs were had to come by after the war and Sidney was said to be a “builders labourer”. The family had moved to Fane House in Bethnal Green (Tower Hamlets) by 1938 and it was still there when the England and Wales (War-time) Register was compiled the following year. On this occasion, Sidney was said to be a “goods checker for the Railway” and Louisa worked for a “finer gent’s tailor” – as well as, presumably, fulfilling her full slate of domestic duties. His children were probably still at school.
Sidney’s (now eldest) daughter, Marguerite Maud Lilian Pinsent joined the “W.A.A.F.” (“Women’s Auxiliary Air Force”) during the war and married a “driver” in the “Royal Army Service Corps.” in 1945. Interestingly, her marriage certificate shows that her father was a “Ministry of War” “caterer.” How that fits in, I am not sure.
Sidney and Louisa’s eldest son, Philip Sidney David, is not known to have married and I know very little about him. The life of the Sidney’s youngest son, Henry George Pinsent is discussed elsewhere.
Sidney Henry and his wife, and their children, were living at #15 Sunnyhill Road in Streatham by 1945, and it was the family’s home until 1965 or later. Philip Sidney David and Henry George Pinsent joined their parents on the electoral roll when they came off-age (London, England, Electoral Rolls: 1832-1965) and Philip was still living with his parents in Streatham in 1965.What happened to Sidney and Louisa from then onward I am not sure. However, Sidney would have been over 70 years old. They may have gone to live with one of their married children.
Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Pinsent died in Wandsworth in Greater London sometime in the summer of 1979 and Sidney Henry died there that autumn. Their son, Philip Sidney David Pinsent, died in London in 2015.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
Parents
Father: William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918 ✔️
Mother: Rose Emeline Parsons: 1872 – 1950
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
George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
Male Siblings (Brothers)
William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963
Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979 ✔️
Henry Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1897
Leonard Charles Pinsent: 1898 – 1974
Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967
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