Vital Statistics
William Pinsent: 1860 – 1936 GRO0882 (Baker and confectioner in Deptford, Kent and Ilford, Essex)
Lydia Florence Warren: 1854 – 1911
Married: 1890: Woolwich, Kent
Children by Lydia Florence Warren:
Sidney Carton Pinsent: 1891 – 1961 (Married Ethel Ida Mann, Romford, Essex, 1915)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0882
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William Pinsent was the younger son of John Pinsent by his wife Elizabeth Loveys. He was born in Bovey Tracey and grew up there with an elder brother, John Pinsent and two elder sisters, Elizabeth Pinsent – who married John William Abbott in London in 1874, and Anne Pinsent – who stayed down in Devon and married James Grant Hannaford Hill in 1876.
William’s mother Elizabeth had an interest in a cottage at “Bridge End” in Bovey Tracey until her (illegitimate) daughter Jane Ann Mead “Pinsent” came of age in 1866, so it is perhaps surprising to see that Elizabeth was living at “Rewes Farm” in Stoke Gabriel with her young family and infant son William when the census was taken in 1861. Her husband, John, was lodging with a clay worker in Bovey Tracey. Perhaps Elizabeth was just visiting.
The family appears to have reunited some time in the 1860s and John and Elizabeth and their family were living on “Bridge Street” in Bovey Tracey when the census takers returned in 1871. William was a “scholar” by then. He appears to have been apprenticed to a “baker” after leaving school – although where I am not sure. He next turns up in Greenwich, in Kent in 1890. That was the year he married Lydia Florence Warren, the daughter of an “engineer”. By then, he was a thirty-years old “confectioner” who had, he said, been born in Bovey Tracy and now lived in New Cross south of the River Thames a few miles west of Greenwich. The couple’s one and only son, Sidney Carton Pinsent was born in New Cross the following year but the family was living on “Pomeroy Street” in Deptford when the Census takers caught up with them a month or so later.
Some time in the 1890s, the family moved across to the north bank of the Thames. They likely lived on “Hunter Road” in Ilford, in 1904, as a William Pinsent was down on the electoral rolls for a dwelling house there. The same man (?) may have lived on “Elsenham Road” in “Manor Park” and qualified as an elector by holding property both on “Elseham Road” and in “St. Mary’s Gardens” in “Little Ilford Lane” in 1907. Unfortunately, there was more than one William Pinsent living in Essex at the time!
Lydia died while the family lived at “#245 Sheringham Avenue” in West Hampstead (which is near Ilford) in 1911 and William was a widowed “baker,” aged 51, when the census takers called a few months later. He was living there with his son Sidney Pinsent, who was a “house decorator”. William Pinsent, of Leighton Road in Kentish Town died in London in the 1936 [St. Pancras Gazette: Friday 12th June 1936]. He was buried in Camden on 9th June 1936 (U.K. Burial and Cremation Index: 1576-2014).
William’s son Sidney served in the army during the First World War. He married Ethel Ida Mann in 1915 and they settled in Romford after the war. His life is described elsewhere.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Grandmother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859
PARENTS
Father: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
Mother: Elizabeth Loveys: 1817 – 1884
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Ann Pinson: 1809 – 1862
William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Elizabeth Pinson: 1814 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1817 – 1819
Joseph Pinson: 1819 – 1881
Sarah Pinson: 1821 – 1886
James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886
Samuel Pinson: 1828 – 1833
Thomas Pinson: 1830 – 1832
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
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