Bristol – Page 13 – The Pinsent Family

William Leonard Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1897
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1898

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0908

William was the illegitimate son of Laura Ann Pinsent.

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Grandmother: Ann Paddon: 1849 – 1922

PARENTS

Father: Unknown: xxxx – xxxx
Mother: Laura Ann Pinsent 1874 – 1940

MOTHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Wallace Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
Ada Pinsent: 1880 – 1959
Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Florence Annie Pinsent: 1885 – 1918
Lily Blanche Pinsent: 1887 – 1949
Beatrice May Pinsent: 1894 – 1894

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Sydney John Pinsent: 1891 – 1968
Reginald Pinsent: 1894 – 1894
Ernest Reginald Pinsent: 1895 – 1896
William Leonard Pinsent: 1897 – 1898

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William James Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1846
Marriage: 1869
Spouse: Ellen Murphy
Death: 1899

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0903

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Grandparents

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Grandmother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859

Parents

Father: Joseph Pinson: 1819 –1881
Mother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Ann Pinson: 1809 – 1862
William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Elizabeth Pinson: 1814 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1817 – 1819
Sarah Pinson: 1821 – 1886
John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886

Male Siblings (Brothers)

William Pinson: 1845 – 1845
William James Pinson: 1846 – 1899
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
John Pinson: 1855 – 1919
Frederick Arthur Pinson: 1857 – 1914
Andrew C. Pinson: 1859 – 1862
Henry Charles A. Pinson: 1865 – 1868

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William Henry Thiery Pinsent

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.

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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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William Henry Pinsent

Vital Statistics

William Pinsent: 1900 – 1965 GRO0883 (Clay worker and Builder’s labourer, Newton Abbot, Devon)

Olive May Perry: 1899 – 1995
Married: 1928: Totnes, Devon

Children by Olive May Perry:

Dennis William Pinsent: 1929 – 2005 (Married Rita May Paul, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1951)
Roy Arthur Pinsent: 1934 – 2023 (Married Ena Joan Weekes, Kingsteignton, Devon, 1955)
Ivor Henry Pinsent: 1934 – 1934

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0883

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William Henry was the illegitimate son of Ada Pinsent, who was one of the daughters of John Pinsent, by his wife Ann (née Paddon). His father was a “brickyard worker.” William Henry was born in Newton Abbot in 1900 and was living in Bovey Tracey with his mother and paternal grandparents when the census takers made their rounds in 1901. The household also included his uncle Albert and his aunt Laura – who had her own illegitimate son, Sydney. William Henry was still living with his paternal grandparents, his uncle Albert, and two of his aunts (Florence and Lily Blanche) when they returned ten years later (1911). The family had; however, moved to Chudleigh. The household then included Lily Blanche’s illegitimate son, George. The cousins were both schoolboys. Interestingly, they were listed as the “sons” and not “grandsons” of John Pinsent. William’s mother, Ada, was away from home at the time. She was a “domestic servant” working for a farmer in Moretonhampstead. Her sister Laura, meanwhile, had married Charles Heath in 1900 and had moved out, taking her son Sydney with her. It was a large, complicated family!

William Henry, or “Willie” as he seems to have been colloquially known, was brought up as a younger son in the Pinsent family and the illusion seems to have continued into later life. For instance, when William’s aunt Florence died in 1918, “Willie” and his uncle Wallace were among the mourners – listed as being her “brothers” (Western Times: Friday 22nd March 1918).

William Henry joined the “2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment”, and he was serving with them in Baluchistan in 1921, when the next census was taken. He was stationed at Kitchener Barracks in Quetta.

Kelly’s Directory shows that William Henry was back in England living on Morgan Avenue in Torquay in 1923. Presumably he was there for work. However, when it came to it, he rejoined his family in the clay processing industry. William Henry married Olive May Perry in Totnes in 1928 and they had three sons in the years that followed. William was said to be a “clay pit worker” when the first was born in 1929 and a “steam engine driver” when the other two arrived in 1934. The second and third were twins, one of whom died as an infant.

The age of steam and rail had certainly arrived, but it is unlikely that William drove a steam engine. He probably ran a stationary engine in one of the clay works or the quarries that were then opening up. His cousin Albert George Pinsent (Lily Blanche’s son) was a “quarry-men.”

William Henry was living with his family in Newton Abbot when the England and Wales wartime register was compiled in 1939. He was said to be a “builder’s labourer” in “heavy work.” He had his wife Olive and at least one son, Dennis – who was still at school living with him. Their second son may have been there too; however his line has been redacted.

William Henry died in Newton Abbot in 1965. His widow, Olive, stayed on there for quite some time, but moved into “Broadlands,” a residential “Old Folks” home, in 1990. She seems to have been happy there: “I’ve been here 18 months and it’s a wonderful place. We Couldn’t possibly find anywhere better than this.” (Torbay Express and South Devon Echo: Saturday 7th September 1991). Sadly, the powers-that-be closed the home down and she had to move. They found her somewhere else and she was still living in the same general area when she died in January 1995.

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PARENTS

Father: Unknown
Mother: Ada Pinsent: 1880 – 1959

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William Edward Sidney Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1876
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1911

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0894

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Grandparents

Grandfather: William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Grandmother: Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890

Parents

Father: Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Mother: Anna Clark: 1844 – 1905

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Emily Pinsent: 1843 – 1848
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1852 – 1906

Thomas James Pinsent: 1833 – 1915
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1836 – xxxx

Male Siblings (Brothers)

William Edward Sidney Pinsent: 1876 – 1911

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William Edwin Pinsent

Vital Statistics

William Edwin Pinsent: 1912 – 1985 GRO0895 (Engineer’s Grinder in Automobile Industry, Croydon, Surrey, England)

Agnes Foster: 1918 – 1986
Married: 1940: Llanaber, Merionethshire

Children by Agnes Foster:

Daughter (GRO0622)
Daughter (GRO0855)

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0895

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William Edwin Pinsent was the eldest son of Albert John Pinsent by his wife Hilda Maude Brimblecombe. He was born in Newton Abbot in 1912. His father was a “clay works worker” who joined the army in the early 1900s and completed his first term of service in 1914 – shortly before the “First World War”. He reenlisted. William had two brothers but one of them died young. He also had three sisters who were later to marry. William’s mother, Hilda, died in Newton Abbot shortly after the birth of her youngest daughter and his father, Albert John, died a few years later – in 1928. What happened to his children after that, I do not know. They may have been taken in by other members of the family; however, it is worth noting that only one, the youngest stayed on in Devon. The others scattered eastward into other parts of the country.

William had moved to North Wales by the late 1930s and was living on the coast at Barmouth, in what is now known as “Snowdonia National Park”. He was the “head cellar man” at “Aston House” in Llanaber in Merionethshire when the England and Wales Register was compiled in 1939, and he was living there when he married Agnes Foster in May 1940. She was a “laundress” and the daughter of a deceased “plumber.”

The couple moved to Liverpool and had their first daughter while there, in 1942. William was an “engineer’s grinder” by then and probably involved in war-related work. According to the Electoral Rolls, he had relocated to Selsdon, in Surrey by 1945 and was presumably living there when his brother Wallace Frederick Pinsent married Audrey Ivy Beckett in Sompting (near Lancing in Sussex) in 1946. The groom’s brother “Mr. E. Pinsent” served as his “best man” (Worthing Herald: Friday 29th March 1946). Perhaps William Edwin Pinsent was known as “Edwin” within the family. There are no other candidates. Agnes may have spent the war in Liverpool; however, she moved down to to Abbey Road in Selsdon, in Surrey sometime in 1946, and the family lived there for several years.

Agnes returned to Liverpool to have her second daughter. She was living with Margaret E. Foster (her mother?) and with Mary A. Carmichael, on Lavan Street in Everton when the child was born. The birth record shows that her husband was then a “grinding engineer working on motor accessories.” William Edwin and Agnes had moved to Heathhurst Road in Sanderstead, Surrey, by 1951 (England, Electoral Registers: 1832 – 1962). From there, they had relocated back to Stanley Gardens in Sanderstead and Seldon by 1958 (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984: Ancestry.com).

William Edwin and Agnes continued to live in Stanley Gardens into the 1980s and they were probably still there when they died in 1985 and 1986 respectively.

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Grandmother: Ann Paddon: 1849 – 1922

PARENTS

Father: Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Mother: Hilda Maude Brimblecombe: 1891 – 1925

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Laura Ann Pinsent: 1874 – 1940
Wallace Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
Ada Pinsent: 1880 – 1959
Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Florence Annie Pinsent: 1885 – 1918
Lily Blanche Pinsent: 1887 – 1949
Beatrice May Pinsent: 1894 – 1894

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

William Edwin Pinsent: 1912 – 1985
Alfred John Richard Pinsent: 1914 – 1920
Wallace Frederick Pinsent: 1920 – 2004

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William Pinsent

Vital Statistics

William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879 GRO0890 (Tailor, Plymouth and Exeter, Agricultural Labourer, Ilsington, Devon)

1. Sarah Eales: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1932: Stoke Damerel, Devon

Children by Sarah Eales:

Thomas James Pinsent: 1833 – 1915 (Married Elizabeth James, 1856, St. Helier, Jersey)
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1836 – xxxx (Married Thomas Potter Rose, 1864, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia)

2. Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890
Married: 1840: Dursley (?) Gloucestershire

Children by Harriet Morgan:

William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923 (Married Louisa Broad, 1864, Bristol, Gloucestershire)
Emily Pinsent: 1843 – 1848
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880 (Married Anna Clark, 1871, Newton Abbot, Devon)
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1852 – 1906 (Married Samuel Lambshead, 1875, Ilsington, Devon)

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0890

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William Pinsent was the eldest son of John Pinsent (a.k.a. “Pinson”) by his wife, Mary (née Follett). He was born in Ilsington in Devon in 1811 and had three surviving brothers (Joseph Pinsent, John Pinsent and James Pinsent) who married and had children. He also had three sisters (Ann Pinsent, Elizabeth Pinsent and Sarah Pinsent); however, only two of them (Elizabeth and Sarah) married.

William appears to have been apprenticed to John Hayman at the age of ten years (1822) and to Joseph Yeo when he was sixteen years old (1829) (Apprenticeship Records: Ilsington: Devon Records Office). They were local “farmers” and one would have expected him to remain tied to the land; however, he seems to have had other ideas. It looks as if he took off for Plymouth and worked for a “tailor”.

William Pinsent probably married Sarah Eales in Stoke Damerel in June 1832. If it was not him, then I do not know who it was! William and Sarah had a son, Thomas James Pinsent in Plymouth in 1833 and a daughter, Elizabeth Pinsent, baptized in St. David’s Parish in Exeter in 1836.

Thomas James Pinsent was later to marry Elizabeth James in the Channel Islands and emigrate to Australia in 1856. His sister Elizabeth seems to have joined him a few years later as she married Thomas Potter Rose in Ballarat, in Victoria in 1864. William’s son and his grandsons by Thomas James created the AUSTRALIA branch of the Pinsent family. Their line of descent is discussed elsewhere. The family can still be found in and around Melbourne.

William Pinsent remained in Devon but his putative wife Sarah (née Eales) drops out of sight soon after the birth of her second child and the same William Pinsent (?) married Harriet Morgan in 1840. I have yet to see a record of marriage but Harriet came from the village of Dursley, near Bristol and she provides the first definitive tie to the City.

William and Harriet’s first child was born in 1841 and they went on to have five children over eleven years. Two of them died early but there were two productive sons (William Henry John and Sidney Pinsent) and a daughter (Laura Emily Pinsent) who married.

As a boy, William Pinsent had been apprenticed as a “farm labourer.” However (assuming I am right and they are the same man), he seems to have worked for a “tailor” as a young man. If so, he returned to the land after parting company with his first wife (Sarah née Earles). The census records tell us that he was an “agricultural labourer” living with his new wife, Harriet, in Chew Magna, in Somerset in 1841. She must have been pregnant as their first son, William Henry John Pinsent was born there later that summer. They had a short-lived daughter, Emily (where, I am not sure) born in 1843 and then returned to William’s home parish of Ilsington, in Devon. His father, John Pinsent, would have been getting on in age so perhaps he needed his help.

William and Harriet’s sons Sidney Pinsent and Alfred James Pinsent were born in Ilsington and Emily and Alfred James both died there in 1848. They died within days of each other – probably from measles. William and Harriet’s last child, a daughter, Laura Emily was born in 1852. The previous year’s census shows that William was a “farm labourer” and that he lived at “Trumpeter”, in Ilsington.

A decade on (1861), the next one shows that William was a “tin mining labourer” and Harriet was a “shop keeper.” By then, the family was living at “Smokey Houses”, in Ilsington. William’s eldest son (William Henry John Pinsent) was, meanwhile, “in service” near Churchill in Somersetshire. He was a “coach-man” in the household of an affluent female “fund-holder” who had been born in the West Indies. Presumably her father was a sugar baron. William Henry’s life is described elsewhere. William’s younger children (Sidney and Laura Emily) were also living in Somersetshire that year. They were staying with their uncle, John Morgan, who was a “toll collector” at the “New Turnpike Gate” at Winscombe.

A few years previously, Laura Emily had been given a mug that was inscribed “Laura Emily Pinsent, a present from Bovey, 1857”. It had been made at one of the potteries in Bovey Tracey and it is now on display in a small museum called “The House of Marbles”. Laura Emily returned to Devon after living with her uncle. The 1871 Census tells us that she was a “milliner and dressmaker” living with her parents. She married Samuel Lambshead, a local “farmer,” in 1875 and there is a copy of their marriage certificate on display along-side the mug at the “House of Marbles”. Laura’s two brothers Sidney and “Henry” (William Henry John) signed the marriage certificate as witnesses. In fact, it would have been more accurate to call Samuel the “son of a farmer” as he seems to have been a “baker”. They moved to Chudleigh and set up a bakery.

William died in Ilsington in 1879 and his widow, Harriet, went to live with Laura Emily and her husband, and their family in Chudleigh. The census takers found her there, in 1881. She was living on “Fore Street”. Harriet’s eldest son, William Henry John Pinsent was by then long since married and living in Bristol. However, his son William Henry Thiery Pinsent was also living with his uncle and aunt in Chudleigh. Presumably, he was training to be a “baker” as William, or “Thiery” as he was more commonly known went on to become a “baker” in Bath in Somerset. His life is discussed elsewhere. Harriet died in Chudleigh in 1890.

Laura Emily’s brother Sidney became a “clerk” and married Anna Clark, the daughter of “a gentleman” in Wrington in Bristol in 1871. His life is described elsewhere.

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Richard Pinson: 1745 – 1825
Grandmother: Elizabeth Gregory: 1748 – 1837

PARENTS

Father: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Mother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Thomas Pinson: 1776 – xxxx
Richard Pinson: 1778 – 1868
Elizabeth Pinson: 1780 – xxxx
William Pinson: 1784 – xxxx
Mary Pinson: 1786 – 1873
Joseph Pinson: 1788 – xxxx
Abraham Pinson: 1787 – 1871
Rachael Pinson: 1796 – xxxx
Loyalty Pinson: 1799 – xxxx

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Pinsent: 1817 – 1819
Joseph Pinson: 1819 – 1881
John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886
Samuel Pinson: 1828 – 1833
Thomas Pinson: 1830 – 1832

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William Pinsent

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.

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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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William Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1845
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1845

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0880

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Grandparents

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Grandmother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859

Parents

Father: Joseph Pinson: 1819 – 1881
Mother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880

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Male Siblings (Brothers)

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Walter Sidney Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1893
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1898

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0876

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Grandmother: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926

PARENTS

Father: William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
Mother: Hannah Ann Cox: 1865 – 1922

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Louisa Pinsent: 1867 – 1936
Edwin John Pinsent: 1868 – 1949
George Pinsent: 1870 – 1890
Alfred James Pinsent: 1872 – 1873
Emilie Marie Eugenie Pinsent: 1873 – 1959
Josephine Pinsent: 1876 – 1952
Lana Florence Mary Pinsent: 1878 – 1879
Alfred Louie Pinsent: 1880 – 1944
Beatrice Rose Pinsent: 1882 – 1959
Sidney Pinsent: 1883 – 1947

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

Thiery George Pinsent: 1891 – 1967
Walter Sidney Pinsent: 1893 – 1898

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