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Birth: 1844 (née Anna Clark)
Marriage: 1871
Spouse: Sidney Pinsent
Death: 1905
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0061
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Birth: 1849 (née Ann Paddon)
Marriage: 1874
Spouse: John Pinsent
Death: 1922
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0057
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Birth: 1809
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1862
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0504
Grandfather: Richard Pinson: 1745 – 1825
Grandmother: Elizabeth Gregory: 1748 – 1837
Father: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Mother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859
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
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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Birth: 1900
Marriage: 1920
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1973
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0045
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1834 – 1917
Grandmother: Mary Ann Gilley: 1839 – 1895
Father: Alfred John Pinsent: 1869 – 1939
Mother: Rosina Train: 1865 – 1947
William Thomas Pinsent: 1870 – 1871
Frederick William Pinsent: 1872 – 1912
John Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1958
Robert Cecil Pinsent: 1898 – 1920
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Birth: 1866
Marriage: 1886
Spouse: Alfred Edwin Parnall
Death: 1949
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0035
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Grandmother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859
Father: James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Perkins: 1831 – xxxx
Ann Pinson: 1809 – 1862
William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Elizabeth Pinson: 1814 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1817 – 1819
Joseph Pinson: 1819 – 1881
Sarah Pinson: 1821 – 1886
John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886
Samuel Pinson: 1828 – 1833
Thomas Pinson: 1830 – 1832
Frederick James Pinsent: 1857 – 1873
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Alfred Louie Pinsent: 1880 – 1944 GRO0029 (Merchant’s Clerk, Bristol, Gloucestershire)
Rosalie Noble Sage: 1879 – 1955
Married: 1912: Bristol, Gloucestershire
Children by Rosalie Noble Sage:
Joyce Rosalie Pinsent: 1914 – 1978
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0029
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Alfred Louie Pinsent was the third son of William Henry John Pinsent by his wife, Louisa (née Broad). He was born in Westbury on Trym in March 1880 and grew up in a relatively large house (six rooms according to the 1911 Census) on Woodbury Lane with four (surviving) brothers and four (surviving) sisters. He was one of the younger children.
Alfred’s father was a gardener and an avid supporter of the “Redland and West Bristol Workmen’s Flower show and Home Encouragement Society,” and most of his children contributed and won prizes for their plants and/or handiwork at some point during the 1880s and 1890s. Alfred came in second for his “Hyacinth in a Pot (gardener’s children)” in 1895. His brother, Sidney Pinsent won the first prize. Alfred also came second with his “Pot of single tulips (gardener’s children)” the same year (Western Daily Press: Friday 15th March 1895).
Alfred was a “bread deliverer” when the Census was taken in 1901 and a “mercantile clerk” ten years later. He was living with his parents and other siblings on Woodbury Lane on both occasions. Alfred married Rosalie Noble (née Sage), the daughter of a deceased “carriage painter” at the “Medland Congregational Church” in 1912, and they had a daughter, Joyce Rosalie Pinsent, in 1914 (Western Daily Press on 1st December 1914).
The 1921 census data tells us that Rosalie was an inmate at the Stapleton Poor Law Institution in the Snowdon Buildings, in Bristol. Where Alfred was, I am not sure. Their daughter, Joyce. was then living with her aunt, Sarah Ann Sage and two of her adult cousins, Theresa Noble Sage, and Gladys Noble Sage.
The Wartime Register, which was compiled 18 years later, shows that both Alfred Louie and his wife, Rosalie (née Sage) were inmates at the Stapleton Institution, in Fishponds, in Bristol. It was a wing of the psychiatric hospital that contained a training centre for the mentally deficient. Alfred was listed as a “clerk” and Rosalie as a “tailoress”. Alfred was said to be “accountant’s clerk” when he died in 1944. His widow, Rosalie Noble (née Sage) died while still an inmate at Stapleton in 1955.
Joyce Rosalie was a “paid domestic” at “Bristol Homeopathic Hospital” in 193 – when the England and Wales, Wartime register was compiled. She appears to have died, unmarried in, 1978.
Grandfather: William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Grandmother: Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890
Father: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Mother: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926
Emily Pinsent: 1843 – 1848
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1852 – 1906
William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
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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Birth: 1914
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1920
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0028
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Grandmother: Ann Paddon: 1849 – 1922
Father: Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Mother: Hilda Maude Brimblecombe: 1891 – 1925
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 – xxxx
Beatrice May Pinsent: 1894 – 1894
William Edwin Pinsent: 1912 – 1985
Alfred John Richard Pinsent: 1914 – 1920
Wallace Frederick Pinsent: 1920 – 2004
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Alfred John Pinsent: 1869 – 1939 GRO0027 (Printer and Compositor, Torquay, Devon)
Rosina Train: 1865 – 1947
Married: 1893: Epping, Essex
Children by Rosina Train:
Vera Effie Pinsent: 1895 – 1895
John Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1958 (Married Annie Violet Keenor, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1921)
Robert Cecil Pinsent: 1898 – 1920
Amy Rose Pinsent: 1900 – 1973 (Married Theodore William Henry Veale, Dartmouth, Devon, 1920)
Margery Rosina Pinsent: 1907 – 1998
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0027
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Alfred John Pinsent was the eldest son of Thomas Pinsent by his wife, Mary Ann (née Gilley). He was born in Chudleigh and was brought up in Torquay and Paignton on the south coast of Devon. He had a brother (Frederick William Pinsent) who became a sailor and died in 1912 without having married or had children. Another brother (William Thomas Pinsent) died in infancy.
Alfred John’s father Thomas was a “compositor and printer” who moved to the Torbay area (which includes Torquay and Paignton) while it was still growing into a holiday destination for inland Britons desperate to escape the smoke of the industrial revolution. He grew up there, and followed his father into the printing business. The census records show that Alfred’s family lived on Hill Park Terrace in Paignton in 1891, and Thomas was affluent enough to have a “cook”, Anne Train and her daughter, Rosina, who was a “dressmaker” in residence. Rosina was slightly older than Alfred. Having a cook in the house may have enabled Alfred’s mother, Mary Ann, to return to her original trade as a “dressmaker”. Perhaps she worked with Rosina.
Alfred and Rosina married in Parndon Parish Church, near Epping, in Essex on 28th August 1893. Why they married there and not in Paignton, I do not know. However, coincidentally or otherwise, there were other Pinsents living in Essex at that time. Alfred and Rosina’s first child, Vera Effie Pinsent arrived the following March but died a few months later. Alfred’s mother, Mary Ann, died in Torquay in 1895 and her widowed husband went to live with Alfred and Rosina and their, by then, growing family. They lived at Rosemont, Ellacombe, in Torquay.
Alfred and Rosina had five children (two sons – John and Robert and three daughters – Vera, Amy and Margery). All but Vera grew to maturity. Perhaps they were particularly fretful children as Rosina applied for a “U.S. Patent” for an “improved baby soother” on 22nd November 1905. It was issued the following June (U.S. Patent Trademark Office Patents (1790-1909): Ancestry.com)! Whether she made any money on the venture, I do not know.
The family had Methodist leanings, so the children (Amy, “Jack”, Maude Lymin (sic) and Robert) attended the local “Primitive Methodist” Sunday School in (Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Friday 20th April 1906). I do not know why the school records later refer to Maude and not Margery. Nevertheless, it was Margery Pinsent who won an award for attendance at Ellacombe School in 1913 (Torquay Directory and South Devon Journal: 15th April 1914).
The family was still living at Rosemont in 1911. The census that year shows that both Alfred and his father were “letter press printers” and they were living with Rosina and her children. Her eldest son, John Pinsent was fourteen years old and referred to as a “plumber.” He had, presumably, recently left school. His brother, Robert and sister Amy were still scholars. Margery was too young for school. Alfred’s father, Thomas Pinsent, died in Torquay in 1917.
Alfred John and Rosina’s younger son Robert Cecil Pinsent had, by then, already signed on for service during the “First World War”. His “Short Term Attestation Papers” (Ancestry.com), which he signed in Cork in January 1916, show that he was a single, nineteen years-old, “proficient cabinet maker.” He was assigned to the “Royal Engineers” as a “Sapper” (Regimental #143955) and served in several locations in the United Kingdom before being discharged from the “488th Field Company” for reason of “sickness” on 15th May 1918. Perhaps he was an early victim of the influenza pandemic that was just getting underway. There is nothing to suggest that he was ever sent overseas.
Robert was eligible for a pension but died on 2nd April 1920 so hardly had time to enjoy it. The “War Graves Commission” notes that he was buried in the “Military Section” of Torquay Cemetery. He was twenty-two years old and still unmarried. His elder brother, John Thomas Pinsent also signed up. However, his life is described elsewhere.
Alfred and Rosina were still living at #3 Rosemount at the time of the 1921 census. He was a “compositor” for the “Torquay Times” by then. Rosina had household duties to attend to, and her children John and Margery presumably helped out. John was a “Electrician” who worked for “W. Lawrence,” however, he was at that time “out of work.” Margery was still in “school, whole time.”
Alfred later worked as a “compositor” for the paper’s owners, the “Devonshire Press,” and he represented the company at the funeral of a long-time employee, Mr. T. H. Sullivan, in June 1935 (Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Friday 15th June 1935). The war-time register shows that he was living with his wife and their younger daughter Margery – both of whom were assigned to “domestic duties” – at Rosemont, on Market Street in Torquay four years later. It must have been a large house as the household included two lodgers, Vera Guise, a “commercial traveller” and Winifred Jennings, a “shop assistant in a restaurant”.
Alfred John Pinsent collapsed and died after arriving for work at the “Torquay Publishing Company” on 20th October 1939. He had been employed by the company for twenty years, the last ten as a works “foreman.” He was buried at Holy Trinity Church. Alfred was, apparently, a well-known member of a band that played at the “Torquay Recreation Ground” during the Rugby Season (Torbay Express and South Devon Echo: Friday 20th October 1939). His daughters Amy Rose Pinsent and Margery Rosina Pinsent (“Mardie”) and his daughter in law, Annie (John Thomas’s wife – Annie Violet (née Keenor)) were there for his funeral but his son John and his son-in-law Theo (Amy Rose’s husband – Theodore William Henry Veale) were absent – away serving in the armed forces. His wife, Rosina, felt unable to attend (Torbay Express and South Devon Echo: Wednesday 25th October 1939).
Rosina stayed on in the family home at Rosemont, in Torquay and died there, quite suddenly, in August 1947 (Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Friday 8th August 1947). Her daughter, Margery, who had successfully taken a “St. John’s Ambulance” First Aid Course in 1929 (Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Friday 19th April 1929), stayed with her until she (Rosina) died. Margery never married but worked as a “telephonist.“ On her retirement from the General Post Office in 1968, she was awarded the “Imperial Service Medal”(London Gazette: 21st June 1968). She died in Hertford and Ware in November 1998.
Grandfather: Abraham Pinsent: 1787 – 1871
Grandmother: Anne Pinsent: 1795 – 1870
Father: Thomas Pinsent: 1834 – 1917
Mother: Mary Ann Gilley: 1839 – 1895
Joseph Cook Pinsent: 1832 – xxxx
William Thomas Pinsent: 1870 – 1871
Frederick William Pinsent: 1872 – 1912
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Birth: 1872
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1873
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0025
Grandfather: William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Grandmother: Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890
Father: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Mother: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926
Emily Pinsent: 1843 – 1848
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1852 – 1906
William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
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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Birth: 1847
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1848
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0024
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1782 – 1849
Grandmother: Mary Follett: 1782 – 1859
Father: William Pinsent: 1811 – 1879
Mother: Harriet Morgan: 1813 – 1890
Ann Pinson: 1809 – 1862
Elizabeth Pinson: 1814 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1817 – 1819
Joseph Pinson: 1819 – 1881
Sarah Pinson: 1821 – 1886
John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
James Pinsent: 1825 – 1886
Samuel Pinson: 1828 – 1833
Thomas Pinson: 1830 – 1832
William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Sidney Pinsent: 1846 – 1880
Alfred James Pinsent: 1847 – 1848
Thomas James Pinsent: 1833 – 1915
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