Newton Abbot Agricultural Association and Labourers Friend Society: The above society held its thirty-sixth annual meeting on Thursday in two fields in the occupation of Mr. William Mudge. The entries of ploughs were not so numerous as formerly. Twentysix ploughs were entered. … Ploughing: Ploughman, with double or one-way plough, who has previously won a first prize in the next class, and now resident within the Newton Abbot Union. 1st, John Wotton, with Mr. Elias Ford; 2nd William Webber, with Mr. Maye; 3rd, Henry Puddicombe, with Mr. Bracewell; Ploughman with double or one-way plough 1st. Richard Brooks, with Mr. Carpenter; 2nd, John Balkwill, with Mr. J. Pinsent, Combeinteignhead; 3rd, Samuel Elliott, with Mr. Pickard (etc) … Female labourer who has lived or worked the longest on the same farm or with the same master or mistress: 1st Ann Winsborough, fifty years on Mrs. Staddon’s farm Shiphay, Collaton; 2nd, Ann Howard, thirty years and four months, Mr. Pinsent, Ware, Kingsteignton; 3rd. S. Bowden, twenty-eight years with Mr. Dymont, Ideford (etc.) ... J. Pinsent attended the dinner in the Globe Hotel.
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GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918
GRO0492 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1838 – 1916