Vital Statistics
Alfred Louie Pinsent: 1880 – 1944 GRO0029 (Merchant’s Clerk, Bristol, Gloucestershire)
Rosalie Noble Sage: 1879 – 1955
Married: 1912: Bristol, Gloucestershire
Children by Rosalie Noble Sage:
Joyce Rosalie Pinsent: 1914 – 1978
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0029
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Alfred Louie Pinsent was the third son of William Henry John Pinsent by his wife, Louisa (née Broad). He was born in Westbury on Trym in March 1880 and grew up in a relatively large house (six rooms according to the 1911 Census) on Woodbury Lane with four (surviving) brothers and four (surviving) sisters. He was one of the younger children.
Alfred’s father was a gardener and an avid supporter of the “Redland and West Bristol Workmen’s Flower show and Home Encouragement Society,” and most of his children contributed and won prizes for their plants and/or handiwork at some point during the 1880s and 1890s. Alfred came in second for his “Hyacinth in a Pot (gardener’s children)” in 1895. His brother, Sidney Pinsent won the first prize. Alfred also came second with his “Pot of single tulips (gardener’s children)” the same year (Western Daily Press: Friday 15th March 1895).
Alfred was a “bread deliverer” when the Census was taken in 1901 and a “mercantile clerk” ten years later. He was living with his parents and other siblings on Woodbury Lane on both occasions. Alfred married Rosalie Noble (née Sage), the daughter of a deceased “carriage painter” at the “Medland Congregational Church” in 1912, and they had a daughter, Joyce Rosalie Pinsent, in 1914 (Western Daily Press on 1st December 1914).
The 1921 census data tells us that Rosalie was an inmate at the Stapleton Poor Law Institution in the Snowdon Buildings, in Bristol. Where Alfred was, I am not sure. Their daughter, Joyce. was then living with her aunt, Sarah Ann Sage and two of her adult cousins, Theresa Noble Sage, and Gladys Noble Sage.
The Wartime Register, which was compiled 18 years later, shows that both Alfred Louie and his wife, Rosalie (née Sage) were inmates at the Stapleton Institution, in Fishponds, in Bristol. It was a wing of the psychiatric hospital that contained a training centre for the mentally deficient. Alfred was listed as a “clerk” and Rosalie as a “tailoress”. Alfred was said to be “accountant’s clerk” when he died in 1944. His widow, Rosalie Noble (née Sage) died while still an inmate at Stapleton in 1955.
Joyce Rosalie was a “paid domestic” at “Bristol Homeopathic Hospital” in 193 – when the England and Wales, Wartime register was compiled. She appears to have died, unmarried in, 1978.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Grandmother: Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890
PARENTS
Father: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Mother: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Emily Pinsent: 1843 – 1848
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1852 – 1906
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
Edwin John Pinsent: 1868 – 1949
George Pinsent: 1870 – 1890
Alfred James Pinsent: 1872 – 1873
Alfred Louie Pinsent: 1880 – 1944
Sidney Pinsent: 1883 – 1947
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