Vital Statistics
John Pinsent: 1773 – xxxx GRO1345 (Property owner, Bovey Tracey, Devon)
Sarah Hill: xxxx – 1839
Married: 1798: Lustleigh, Devon
Children by Sarah Hill:
John Pinsent: 1799 – 1878 (Married Susanna Morrish, Kingsteignton, 1829)
Joseph Pinsent: 1800 – xxxx
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1804 – 1851
Mary Pinsent: 1807 – 1854 (Married Thomas Howard, Bovey Tracey, Devon, 1825)
Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1345
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John Pinsent was the eldest son of Joseph Pinsent by his wife, Mary (née Berry). He was brought up in Bovey Tracey where his father was a tenant farmer who seems to have surrendered the “part of Yeo” he worked with his father back to its owner, (the Church: Rev. Mr. Morgan) in 1808. The land was probably part of a much larger estate that had been owned the Pinsent family in the 1600s. Joseph also seem to have sold the smaller “part of Yeo” where his mother lived with her daughter Sarah and her husband, Mr. Dearin, after her husband died. Joseph had been a “butcher” as well as a farmer and in later life, he became a “property developer” in Bovey Tracey. The community was growing fast with the development of its potteries and brickyards.
Among the houses Joseph bought in 1797, was a small house in Bovey Tracey (valued at 2s 6d) called “Carrols” or “Canols.” He bought it the year before his son John Pinsent married Sarah Hill and they made it their home. Sarah came from the neighbouring parish of Lustleigh. The couple had two sons, John Pinsent and Joseph Pinsent and two daughters, Elizabeth Pinsent and Mary Pinsent.
John most likely died in 1809, although I can find no record of it. What I do know is that his wife Sarah took ownership of the house and lived there until 1813. Land Tax Records show that she then rented it out to a Mr. Rich until 1818, and to a Mr. Newcombe until 1821. A Mr. Beale rented it until at least 1831, which is when the record series ends. John’s father was still alive and Sarah (née Hill) probably lived off family investments. Her father-in-law died in 1838 and her brother-in-law Thomas, a “carpenter” who had been living in London, returned to Bovey Tracey shortly thereafter.
When John died, Sarah was left with four very young children to look after. I am not aware of her having remarried and, as she was still “Sarah Pinsent” when she rented out her house to Mr. Beale in 1831. Sarah’s daughter Elizabeth saw a lot of her mother’s family when she was growing up and Sarah may have taken her children back home to Lustleigh to live when they were young. I do not know for sure when Sarah died. However, she could be the Sarah Pinsent, aged 64, who died in Tormoham in June 1836.
John and Sarah’s elder son, John Pinsent was probably apprenticed to a “baker” in Kingsgteinton. If so, he married Susanna Morrish while living there in 1829. The couple had a family and, eventually, settled in West Teignmouth. John’s life is discussed elsewhere. His younger brother, Joseph Pinsent, is still unaccounted for.
John and Sarah’s elder daughter Elizabeth never married. Census data shows that she was a “dressmaker” living with her uncle Abraham Hill and his wife Anne, and their unmarried daughter Mary Hill, at Daccombe in Coffinswell (a few miles southeast of Newton Abbot) in Devon in 1851. She died there a few months later.
Elizabeth’s will was proved in the “Principal Registry of the Lord Bishop of Exeter” and a copy survived the bombing of the “Exeter Probate Registry” during the “Second World War”. It is in the “Stamp Office”. Elizabeth asked that her debts be paid and the remainder of the £5 she had in the “Devon and Exeter Savings Bank” be split equally amongst her (deceased) brother, John Pinsent’s living children, and that their portions be invested until they reached the age of 18 years. She gave her interest in a dwelling house in Bovey Tracey to her uncle (?), Abraham Hill, who had provided money for its purchase and repair, and she gave the rest of her estate to her cousin Mary Hill.
Elizabeth’s younger sister, Mary Pinsent appears to have married Thomas Howard in Bovey Tracey in December 1825.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
Grandmother: Elizabeth Unknown: 1719 – 1816
Parents
Father: Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
Mother: Mary Berry: 1751 – 1825
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
John Pinsent: 1755 – xxxx
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1756 – xxxx
Sarah Pinsent: 1758 – xxxx
Male Siblings (Brothers)
John Pinsent: 1773 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1776 – 1856
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