Vital Statistics
Victor William Pinsent: 1909 – 1983 GRO0863 (Shoemaker, Plymouth, Devon)
Mavis Beatrice Victoria Bignell: 1920 – xxxx
Married: 1940: Plymouth, Devon
Children by Mavis Beatrice Victoria Bignell:
Son (GRO0167)
Family Branch: Bovey Tracey
PinsentID: GRO0863
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Victor William Pinsent was younger son of Samuel George Caleb Pinsent by his wife Florence Edith Louise (née Hill). He was born in Plymouth and grew up there with an elder brother (Leslie Samuel Pinsent and seven sisters. His father was a “cordwainer” or “shoemaker”. The family was lived on Neath Road when he was born; however, he grew up in Salisbury Road where his father had a boot and shoe repair shop. Victor seems to have followed his father’s footsteps and become a “cobbler” or “shoe-repairman”. Both were listed as “boot repairers” living at 64 Salisbury Road when the Wartime Register was compiled in 1939.
Victor married Mavis Beatrice Victoria Bignell, in Compton Gifford, in Plymouth on 17th August 1940. She was the daughter of a “blacksmith.” Two years later, while living in Plympton, they had a son, David Victor Pinsent. After the war, Victor and Mavis stayed on in-and-around Plymouth. They were living on Torbridge Road in the village of Horrabridge in 1966 (Horrabridge Parish Electoral Roll: 1943 – 19673: Findmypast). Horrabridge, – which is on the edge of Roborough Down to the north of Plymouth was – coincidentally, the home of Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent in the 1940s, and of his son Robert John Francis Homfray Pinsent when he retired to Devon in the late 1970s. Whether the families overlapped, I am not sure. Mavis was living there from 1965 to 1968 (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984: Ancestry.com) but she may have moved on after that.
Victor’s death was registered in the Government Office in Tavistock in the summer of 1983. Mavis moved to Hampshire after her husband’s death and married Leslie A. Weeks in August 1988.
Victor’s son was a “soldier” who married in Plymouth in 1965 and two of his three children were born in Germany where he was serving with the “British Army of the Rhine” in the late 1960s. His son has had sons, so the line, presumably, continues.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Samuel Pinsent: 1839 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Jane West: 1846 – 1931
PARENTS
Father: Samuel George Caleb Pinsent: 1875 – 1951
Mother: Florence Edith Louise Hill: 1875 – 1959
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Rosetta Pinsent: 1868 – xxxx
Eleanor Elizabeth Pinsent: 1870 – 1942
William Abraham West Pinsent: 1872 – 1958
Lily Hetty Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
Beatrice Mary Ann Pinsent: 1879 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1882 – 1893
Bessie Pinsent: 1884 – 1918
Thomas Charles Pinsent: 1886 – 1889
Ann Pinsent: 1887 – 1889
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Leslie Samuel Pinsent: 1904 – 1976
Victor William Pinsent: 1909 – 1983
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