Vital Statistics
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970 GRO0877
Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985
Married: 1922: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Louie Irene Bassford:
Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
Daughter (GRO0175)
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000
Elaine Irene Pinsent: 1939 – 1941
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0877
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Wilfred was the third son of Walter Pinsent by his wife, Clara (née Black). He was born in Leicester where his father was a “shoe finisher” who lived on Western Road (1901 Census). His parents took over a grocer’s shop and off-license on Martin Street in 1909, and so that was where Wilfred and his siblings (Charles William Pinsent, Arthur Ernest Pinsent, and Hilda May Pinsent) spent their youth.
Wilfred followed his father into the shoe trade when he left school and became a “shoe clicker.” At the time of the census in 1921, he was employed by “Fox and Co.” However, he was later to become a “shopkeeper”. In fact, he may have been the (relatively junior) “shop keeper” found to be living at #2 All Saint’s Place in Leicester in 1925 (Kelly’s Directory). He took over his parent’s business on Martin Street around 1928 (Kelly’s Directory).
Wilfred married Louie Irene Bassford (a “shoe-machinist”) in 1922. They had eight children (six sons and two daughters) in the years that followed. Of these, all but three (George Pinsent, John Walter Pinsent and their sister Elaine Irene Pinsent , who was born in 1939) lived to adulthood and married.
The War-time Register shows that Wilfred and Louie ran an “Off-license and Grocery ” on Martin Street in 1939 and their sons, Charles William Pinsent – who was training to be an “engineering estimator,” Bernard Pinsent – an “apprentice templater,” and Neville Pinsent and Brian Pinsent – who were still “schoolboys” were still living with them. There was another child present; however, his or her name has been redacted. None of their children would have been married by then.
Their four sons married in the 1940s and 1950s and their lives are described elsewhere. They had children of their own who bring the family line through into modern times. Wilfred died in Leicester (England and Wales Burial Index: Ancestry.com) in 1970 and his widow, Louie Irene, died there in January 1985. Her children placed an “in memoriam” notice in the Leicester Daily Mercury the following year (29th January 1986).
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Grandmother: Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
PARENTS
Father: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Mother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Annie Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx
Harriet Pinsent: 1875 – 1959
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
Florence Pinsent: 1880 – 1901
Maria Pinsent: 1885 – 1943 * Illegitimate
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
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