Vital Statistics
William Henry Thiery: 1865 – 1915 GRO0901 (Baker and Confectioner, Corsham, Wiltshire and Bath, Somersetshire)
Hannah Ann Cox: 1865 – 1922
Married: 1889: Bath, Somerset
Children by Hannah Ann Cox:
Daisy Louise Pinsent: 1890 – 1960
Thiery George Pinsent: 1891 – 1967 (Married (1) Florence Maud Fisher, 1920, Bristol, Gloucestershire; (2) Edith Emma Sussemilch, 1933, Foxley, Wiltshire)
Walter Sidney Pinsent: 1893 – 1898
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0901
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William Henry Thiery Pinsent was the eldest son of William Henry John Pinsent by his wife, Louisa (née Broad). He was born in Clifton, in Bristol, in 1865 and grew up in a family of five boys and four girls. His father was a “coachman” who later became a full-time “gardener”. The family lived in Woodbury Lane, in Westbury on Trym – a northern suburb of Bristol and it belonged to the “Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Show and Home Encouragement Society.” The family competed in many of its horticultural and domestic categories throughout the 1880s and were quite successful – particularly in the plant and bulb categories. Doubtless it helped to have a “gardener” on hand. William Henry Thiery did well with his potted hyacinth, his fern and his succulents in 1883 and his mother (once again) won out in the dried grass department (Western Daily Press: Friday 9th March 1883). Two year’s later “Thiery” (as William Henry Thiery Pinsent was generally known) only came second for his pot grown fern but may have felt better after winning the society’s prize for the best pair of succulent plants. His mother meanwhile came third with her dried grasses (Bristol Mercury: Friday 6th March 1885).
Children were sent out work or into apprenticeships when they reached the age of thirteen or fourteen in those days and “Thiery” Pinsent, was with his uncle, Samuel Lambshead, a “baker” in Chudleigh when the census was taken in 1881. He was there under the watchful eye of his aunt Laura Emily (née Pinsent) and grandmother (Harriet Pinsent, née Morgan). He may well have been there to see what he thought about the bakery business as he seems to have been apprenticed to a “baker” during the 1880s. This was probably in Bristol – otherwise it is hard to see how he could have competed in the “Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Shows” on a regular basis.
After completing his apprenticeship, “Thiery” advertised for a position with a “baker” in Bristol: “Young man seeks situation as second-hand baker, or confectioner; used to first class small goods, highest references: Total abstainer: 7 years last situation: Address, W. Pinsent, 3 Woodbury Place, Redland” (Western Daily Press: Monday 4th June 1888). He probably had no takers.
Instead, “Thiery” moved to Bath in Somerset where he married a “domestic servant”, Hannah Ann Cox, at “New King’s Street Chapel”, in March 1889. They had three children. The first, Daisy Louise Pinsent was born in Bath the following year. What happened to her I do not know. However, she was still single and living with her mother “Ann” in Westbury on Trym when the census was taken in 1921. Daisy died in Bristol in 1960.
“Thiery” and Hannah moved to Corsham (approximately 8 miles or 12 kilometres northeast of Bath) and their second child, Thiery “George” Pinsent was born there, in 1891, as was their third, Walter Sidney Pinsent in 1893. The family actually lived at Box Hill near Corsham. “Thiery’s” young sister Beatrice Rose was with them when the census was compiled in 1891. Perhaps she had come to help look after the children. “Thiery” and Hannah, or “Annie” as she sometimes seems to have been called, maintained close links with the rest of the Pinsent family and all three of their children were christened in Holy Trinity Church in Westbury on Trym. Walter Sidney died when he was four years old. His father is said to have been in Tiverton, in Devon, at the time. Why, I do not know.
Bakers sold bread off the back of their cart in those days, and we find that William Pinsent, of Lorne Street, in Twerton, was summoned for selling bread without having his weights and scales available. He claimed they were in being repaired, so the Bath magistrates only gave him a small 5s fine for non-compliance (Bath Herald: 28th July 1900). Perhaps business was tough at the turn of the century as William was one of many master bakers in the Bath District who formally announced that they would nolonger be giving Xmas boxes to Customers or their Employees (Bath Herald: 29th November 1900).
“Thiery” and Hannah were back in Bath by 1911. The census record shows that they were living on Coronation Avenue with their son Thiery “George” – who was a “printer, press man and lithographer” at Pitman’s Printing Works and also their daughter Daisy Louise Pinsent. William died while there, in 1914. Hannah and Daisy were living on Stoke Lane in Westbury on Trym at the time of the 1921 census. She died in Bristol in 1922.
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 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
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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