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Vital Statistics

Birth: N/A (née Edna Gray)
Marriage: 1940
Spouse: Herbert Frederick Pinsent
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1167

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Vital Statistics

Harry Pinsent: 1877 – 1905 GRO0405

Florence Hannah Clayton: 1878 – xxxx
Married: 1899: Leicester, Leicestershire

Children by Florence Hannah Clayton:

Harry Pinsent: 1899 – 1900
Margaret Pinsent: 1904 – 1904

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0405

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Harry Pinsent was Thomas Johnson Pinsent’s younger son by his first wife, Sarah Ann Ellis. He may have been baptized as “Henry” but he seems to have been known as “Harry”. He was born in Leicester and was five years old when his mother died in 1882.

His father remarried the following year and he, like his elder brother, John Arthur Pinsent, seems to have had difficulty adjusting. The Census (1891) records show that Harry was sent to live with his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Ellis, on Bow Street.

Benjamin was a foreman in the shoe trade and it may have been a strategic move – as it enabled Harry (14) to train as a “shoe finisher” alongside his older cousins Edwin Ellis (25) and Arthur Ellis (17).

By then (1891) Harry’s father was a “hairdresser” living on Catherine Road in Leicester with his second wife Caroline (née Deakin) and his daughter from his first, Emma Louise Pinsent (11). The household also included Robert E. “Pinsent”, who appears to be one of Caroline’s sons from an earlier marriage. If so, he is not a “Pinsent” at all.

Harry Pinsent, “of Bow Street” was fined 10s for using obscene language in Abbey Lane in May 1894 (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 5th May 1894), and was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for re-offending a few weeks later (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 2nd June 1894). 

Harry married a “hosiery artisan” Florence Hannah Clayton, in 1899 and they had a son, also called Harry Pinsent later the same year. Sadly, he died within a year.  The couple had a daughter, Margaret Pinsent a few years later but she died at birth.

According to the Census records, Harry’ sister Jane Pinsent was living next door to the couple, on Bedford Road, in 1901. The couple moved to Syston Street, where Harry died of tuberculosis (age 27) in 1905.  He was a “shoe-finisher.” His widow, Florence Hannah (Clayton), was unencumbered by children by then and she remarried the following year. She married a “labourer”, Samuel Saywell.

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909

PARENTS

Father: Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
Mother: Sarah Ann Ellis: 1858 – 1882

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925 ✔️
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Arthur Pinsent: 1875 – 1942
Harry Pinsent: 1877 – 1905 ✔️

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Vital Statistics

Birth: 1889 (née Mabel Braimridge)
Marriage: 1910
Spouse: Ernest Pinsent
Death: 1982

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1845

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