Category: Devonport

Louisa Pinsent

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Birth: 1869
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO1247

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Grandparents

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1799 – 1870
Grandmother: Mary Ann Todd: 1799 – 1874

Parents

Father: William Pinsent: 1825 – xxxx
Mother: Louisa Unknown: 1846 – xxxx

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Elizabeth Pinsent: 1822 – 1896
Thomas Pinsent: 1823 – 1825
William Pinsent: 1825 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1826 – 1914

Male Siblings (Brothers, Half-Brothers)

John W. Pinsent: 1854 – xxxx

William Pinsent: 1873 – xxxx
Charles Pinsent: 1874 – xxxx
Frank Pinsent: 1875 – xxxx

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Louisa Pinsent

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Birth: 1861
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO1241

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Grandparents

Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1799 – 1870
Grandmother: Mary Ann Todd: 1799 – 1874

Parents

Father: John Pinsent: 1826 – 1914
Mother: Sophia Jane Fisher: 1836 – 1902

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Elizabeth Pinsent: 1822 – 1896
Thomas Pinsent: 1823 – 1825
William Pinsent: 1825 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1826 – 1914

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Lilian Violet Pinsent

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Birth: 1906
Marriage: 1928
Spouse: Frederick Bert Herbert
Death: 1983

Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0584

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Frederick Pinsent: 1852 – 1929
Grandmother: Hannah Jane Jenner: 1847 -1926

PARENTS

Father: Alfred Charles Pinsent: 1881 – 1942
Mother: Sarah Ann Dyer: 1881 – 1940

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Frederick Charles Pinsent: 1875 – 1951
Thomas Benjamin Pinsent: 1876 – 1877
Alice Amelia Pinsent: 1878 – xxxx
Eliza Maria Pinsent: 1883 – 1885

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Leslie Grahame Pinsent

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Leslie Grahame Pinsent: 1910 – 1988 GRO0579 (Motor Car Garage Owner, Portsmouth)

1. Edna Kate May Stuttard: 1912 – xxxx
Married: 1934: Portsmouth, Hampshire

2. Elsa Laura Christine Nellthorp: 1908 – 1988
Married: 1948: Portsmouth, Hampshire

Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0579

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Leslie Grahame Pinsent was the only son of John Douglas Pinsent by his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Watts). He was born in Exeter in 1910 but moved to Southsea, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, with his parents in around 1916. He grew up there. As a young man, he played “football” (probably soccer but possibly rugby!) for the “South Hants Nomads” (Portsmouth Evening News: Friday 21st February 1930). Leslie married Edna Kate May Stuttard in 1934. She was the daughter of a “shipwright” who worked in the Portsmouth “Dockyard”. At the time of his marriage, he was described as being a “garage proprietor”. The couple lived on Torrington Road, in Portsmouth and Edna was still living there when the war-time “Register” was taken in 1939. She was a “clerk for a draper” at the time but she later joined the “Civil Service” as a “clerk” in the “National Insurance Office”. Leslie, meanwhile, joined the “Royal Air Force” and served as a “Leading Aircraftsman”.

Leslie and Edna lived near to Edna’s mother’s house in Gosport at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. The area took quite a beating during the war and Leslie’s mother-in-law was bombed out of her house. She moved in with Edna and her husband but found the stress of it all unbearable. Sadly, she committed suicide in June 1941 (Portsmouth Evening News: Tuesday 10th June 1941). After the war, Leslie returned to his previous profession as a “motor (car) dealer”. However, he may have found it difficult make a go of it in a war-ravaged country. Certainly, he had become a “tobacconist” by 1948. By then, his marriage to Edna had broken down and they had divorced. There were no children. Leslie remarried in 1948 and Edna remarried the following year.

Leslie Grahame married a widow, Elsa Laura Christine Spicer, (née Nellthorpe) who brought at least one young daughter into the marriage. She was later to marry the local curate and emigrate to New Zealand. The family lived on Francis Avenue in Southsea in 1949. The “tobacconist’s” was nearby, on Albert Road. Leslie and Elsa had moved to Locksway Road in Southsea by 1951, and they were still there in 1983 (Portsmouth Telephone Directory). Elsa had been living there in 1939 (1939 Register), so it may have been her family home.

There were several other Pinsent families in the Southsea and Portsmouth area in the 1950s, but it seems likely that Leslie Grahame was the G. Pinsent who became an active member of the “Southsea Waverley Bowling Club” (Portsmouth Evening News: Thursday 19th November 1953). He, himself, was runner up in the “Waverley Open Tourney” when it was held at Southsea Waverley in June 1957 (Portsmouth Evening News: Monday 12th June 1957) and a member of the club team when it won the “Hampshire County Club Championship” later that same year (Portsmouth Evening News: Monday 5th August 1957). Elsewhere, the same individual seems to have been described as being L. Pinsent.

The Mrs. E. Pinsent, who captained the women in the “Falcon Tennis Club” and won both the Section “B” and “C” Shields in the inter-club knockout competitions in 1952 (Portsmouth Evening News: Friday 26th September 1952), was probably his wife, Elsa. If so, they were both active in their respective sports into the early 1950s. Elsa may also have played bridge in her spare time as a team including “Mrs. Pinsent” won a bridge drive sponsored by the local “Ladies Life-boat Guild” in 1958 (Portsmouth Evening News: Monday 3rd February 1958). 

Elsa died in August 1988 and Leslie died in December a few months later. They had no children that I am aware of.

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Grandparents

Grandfather: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920
Grandmother: Harriet Eliza Cookson: 1846 – 1892

Parents

Father: John Douglas Pinsent: 1872 – 1936
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Watts: 1886 – 1942

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Ethel Mary Philomena Pinsent: 1869 – xxxx
Kathleen Blanche Pinsent: 1871 – 1949
John Douglas Pinsent: 1872 – 1936 ✔️
William Henry Pinsent: 1874 – 1949

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Laurence Alfred Pinsent

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A young soldier in profile.
Laurence Alfred Pinsent in The War Illustrated, 11 September 1915.

Birth: 1894
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1915

Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0571

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864
Grandmother: Catherine Agnes Ross: 1830 – 1906

Parents

Father: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Mother: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931

Father’s Siblings (Aunt, Uncles)

Adolphus Ross Pinsent: 1851 – 1929
Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Edith Mary Pinsent: 1853 – xxxx
Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978
Clive Pinsent: 1886 – 1948
John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
Laurance Alfred Pinsent: 1894 – 1915
Philip Ryland Pinsent: 1897 – 1916

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