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Torquay Times, and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 1st March 1879

Torquay Times: Directory of Torquay: … 88: Sulyarde Ter. (Torbay Road): Torbay Hotel (Mrs. Bates, proprietress) Sulyarde House: Mr. and Mrs. Hammerton, Mr. Alfred Smith, Miss Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Pynsent, Capt. And Mrs. Willoughby and family, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and family … (see also elsewhere)

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GRO0469 Hennock: Jane Sparrow: 1809 – 1891
GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Southern Times and Dorset County Herald: Saturday 18th January 1879

Marriage: The marriage of Mr. G. F. Pinney, third son of the late Mr. John A. Pinney of Blackdown House, with Lucy, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Bragge, of Sadborow, was solemnized at St. John’s Church in this town, on Saturday last …(description of wedding) … The presents were both numerous and costly … (includes) … Mrs. Willoughby, black and gold fan; Mrs. Sneyd, silver sardine box; Mrs. Pynsent, drawing room china clock on stand, Mrs. Moss King, Silver necklace; Mrs. Reynolds Reynolds, white china tailor birds … (continues) …

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GRO0469 Hennock: Jane Sparrow: 1809 – 1891

Bedford Record: Saturday 18th January 1879

Oakley Hunt Ball: A brilliant and fashionable party met in the New Corn Exchange, Bedford, on Wednesday evening last, on the occasion of the annual Oakley Hunt Ball. The season of hunting this year has been very an-auspicious in consequence of the severe frosty weather, nevertheless the ball was well patronised. … The following are the names of the distinguished company: … (includes) … Mr. Pynsent C. Smith …

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Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Thursday 8th August 1878

Chudleigh Grammar School, Devon: Found by John Pynsent, A.D. 1668: Headmaster: T. B. Beuttler, B.A. formerly Exhibitioner of Rugby School and Scholar of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and late Assistant Master at Bedford Grammar School: The next term will begin on September 17th.

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Monday 2nd September 1878 and others]

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Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Tuesday 23rd April 1878

Northam: Local Board: The first meeting of this Board, after the election of new members was held on Saturday: … (list of members) … Mr. W. Pickard proposed and Mr. Penhorwood seconded “That A. B. Wren, Esq., be the Chairman for the ensuing year”. This was carried. It was proposed and carried that Messrs. Williams, W. Pickard and Captain Sangster should be the Westward Ho! Committee …. (local business then) … A letter was then read by the Chairman, as follows … (from the Local Government Board, Whitehall, acknowledging that the Northam board had abandoned its original proposal for sewerage at Westward Ho and now needed L. 350 for their revised plan. The Board ask for a copy of the resolution and say they will sanction it) … “provided they are satisfied that the scheme will suffice for the drainage of Mr. Pynsent’s houses. In order that this may be ascertained, they request to be furnished with a section of the proposed main sewer, showing the level of its invert with referent to the level of the basement of these houses …

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Western Gazette: Friday 19th April 1878

Board of Guardians: The following is a list of the Guardians of the poor elected for the several parishes in the Langport Union for the year 1878-9: …. (includes) … Curry Rivel, Thomas T. Cuff, Burton Pynsent …

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Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: 21st December 1878

Directory of Torquay: … 99 Torwood Street … (includes) …11, Mr. T. Pynset and Mrs. Baston …

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

North Devon Herald: 8th August 1878

A Midwife named Ann Pinsent was remanded on Thursday by the Birmingham magistrates, on a of concealing the birth of a child. In the course of some excavations close the prisoner’s house the remains of eleven children have been found.

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Coventry Times: 13th March 1878

An Important Question: At Birmingham County Court, on Monday, before Mr. Motteram, Q.C. judge, the London and North Western Railway Company sued Mr. Robert Evans, of the Cliveland Street Flour Mills, Birmingham, for £10 0s 11d, charge for warehousing goods consigned to him. Mr. Pinsent (of the firm of Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent) appeared for the company; and Mr. Hugo Young (instructed by Messrs. Coleman) was for the defendants. … (discussion of issue – a change in charging structure) …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Newcastle Courant: Friday 22nd November 1878

English Party Leaders: The history of party leaders from Walpole to Pool takes in a century and a half of the most important period of not only the national but the world’s history …. Pitt … took a dislike to Hayes, sold it, purchased a villa at Hampstead, and there, too, endeavoured to surround himself with solitude, At Burton Pynsent, he conceived the idea of planting a considerable area with cedars, and as a sufficient supply could not be obtained in Somersetshire he ordered them to be send down from London, engaging relays of workmen to plant them and insisting that the work should go on all night … 

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