Category: Teignmouth

Elizabeth Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1756
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1591

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783
Grandmother: Anne Edwards: xxxx – xxxx

Parents

Father: Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
Mother: Elizabeth Unknown: 1719 – 1816

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
John Pinsent: 1729 – xxxx

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
John Pinsent: 1755 – xxxx

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John Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1755
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1590

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783
Grandmother: Anne Edwards: xxxx – xxxx

Parents

Father: Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
Mother: Elizabeth Unknown: 1719 – 1816

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
John Pinsent: 1729 – xxxx

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
John Pinsent: 1755 – xxxx

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Sarah Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1779
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1410

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Roger Pinsent: 1725 – 1803
Grandmother: Elizabeth Unknown: 1719 – 1816

Parents

Father: Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
Mother: Mary Berry: 1751 – 1825

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Joseph Pinsent: 1748 – 1837
John Pinsent: 1755 – xxxx
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1756 – xxxx
Sarah Pinsent: 1758 – xxxx

Male Siblings (Brothers)

John Pinsent: 1773 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1776 – 1856

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Roger Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720 GRO1820 (Weaver and labourer, Bovey Tracey, Devon)

Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1683: Exeter, Devon

Children by Elizabeth Symons:

Joan Pinsent: 1684 – 1685
John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Edmond Pinsent: 1692 – 1758 (Married Mary Satterley, Lustleigh, Devon, 1716)
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1697 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783 (Married Anne Edwards, Bovey Tracey, Devon, 1724)

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1820

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Roger Pinson may have been born in Bovey Tracey in 1660 (online sources); however, I have yet to find the record. I do not know who his father was, so he has been designated the founding father of the TEIGNMOUTH branch of the Pinsent family: a branch that very nearly made it through into modern time.

The parish record show that “Roger Pinson of Bovey Tracey” married Elizabeth Symons in Exeter in 1683. They seem to have had six children (four boys and two girls) over twenty years but only two of them can be shown to have married. Their son Edmond Pinsent “of Wrayland” married Mary Satterley in 1716 and his brother Roger Pinsent married Anne Edwards in 1724. Their lives are described elsewhere. What happened to their siblings is still uncertain.

Interestingly, one of their sons was another Roger Pinsent who was born in 1690 and died in 1701. His burial entry in the Register refers to his father as Roger Pinsent, “wea” – which probably means “weaver.” Similarly, when the second, viable, Roger was baptized in 1703 the register refers to his father as “l” meaning “labourer”. This tell us that Roger “sen.” was probably not a significant landholder. The intermixing of the the name “Pinson” with “Pinsent” probably reflects the whim of the parish clerk more than it does the wishes of the individual.

Cecil Torr transcribes some of the “Wreyland Manor Court Rolls” in his very useful little book “Wreyland Documents” (published by Cambridge University Press in 1910). One of them tells us that Roger Pinsent (and three other residents) was “presented”  (i.e. held accountable) for their non-attendance at a court held on 13th October 1697. He was similarly absent when the courts were held on 14th October 1703 and 12th October 1904. He could not get out of attending in October 1705 as he was on the jury that year, and in 1709 he was appointed “tithing man”. He was back on the jury in October 1711- when his neighbour, James Fryer, was “presented” for “letting down his fences by reason whereof Roger Pinsent receives considerable damage”. James was slow to react and he was “presented” for the same offense the following year. Roger was, once again, on the jury – which must have made for some lively conversation! Good fences make good neighbours. Roger made his final appearance on the jury in 1714 and died in 1720. In his index to “Wreyland Documents,” Cecil Torr notes that Roger probably lived at “Higher Yeo” – one of the tenements in Wreyland.

According to Torr, there were eleven tenements in the manor of Wreyland consisted in 1726, of which eight were in Bovey Tracey parish and three in Hennock. Today, they are all in Lustleigh as parish boundaries are far from fixed. Several branches of the Pinsent family have owned or leased property in Wreyland over the years. Most notably the DEVONPORT Branch (see elsewhere) lived at Kelly for a few generations around this time. TEIGNMOUTH branch seems to be strongly connected to Yeo.

Yeo may have been a single entity (near the confluence of the Wrey and Bovey Rivers) but by the late seventeenth century it comprised three principal tenements (“Higher” (sometimes referred to as “Knowle” or “Uphill”), “Middle” and “Lower Yeo” (“Forder” etc.) that had been subdivided into quarters and then broken down into smaller fractions over the years – each of which had changed hands many times. Cecil Torr attempted to sort out some of the arrangements made prior to John Gribble’s sale of the “Manor of Knowle” that contained much of the old Wreyland land to Francis Daniell’s in 1797.

Farmers living in the “Manor” of Bovey Tracey were obliged take their corn to be ground at the King’s “grist” mill in Bovey Tracey. However, in 1602, the King insisted that the tenants of Wreyland Manor who lived in the parish of Bovey Tracey were also required to do so. They disagreed, as they had felt that they were beyond his jurisdiction and – besides – the mill at Lustleigh was a far more convenient. John Pinsent (“of Yeo”) was one of several Wreyland farmers who contested the King’s right in the “Court of Exchequer”. They claimed that they had had the right to mill their corn wherever they wanted “time out of mind”. The King disagreed and the issue remained contentions for several more generations. The descendants of this particular John Pinsent owned a considerable amount of “Lower Yeo” up until the death of a Thomas Pinsent, in 1796. He probably came from the main trunk of the TEIGNMOUTH tree but the details of his line have yet to be worked out. Nevertheless, they are touched on elsewhere.

Roger Pinsent probably came from a side-branch of the family. He was a contemporary of one of the (several) John Pinsent’s of “Lower Yeo” and they served on manor court juries together in the 1710s (C. Torr: Wreyland Documents: 1910).  Roger died in Bovey Tracey in January 1720. I do not know when his wife, Elizabeth died. They seem to have left two sons whose lives are discussed elsewhere.

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Joan Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1684
Marriage:  N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1685

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1822

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Unknown
Grandmother: Unknown

PARENTS

Father: Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720
Mother: Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783

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John Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1686
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1823

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Unknown
Grandmother: Unknown

PARENTS

Father: Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720
Mother: Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783

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Roger Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1690
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1701

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1824

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Unknown
Grandmother: Unknown

PARENTS

Father: Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720
Mother: Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783

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Edmond Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Edmond Pinsent: 1692 – 1758 GRO1825 (Agricultural labourer, Lustleigh, Devon)

Mary Satterley: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1716: Lustleigh, Devon

Children by Mary Satterley:

Elizabeth Pinsent: 1717 – 1718
Richard Pinsent: 1718 – xxxx
Sarah Pinsent: 1721 – xxxx (Married Daniel Kater, Lustleigh, Devon, 1747)
Edmond Pinsent: 1724 – 1726
Joan Pinsent: 1727 – xxxx

Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1825

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Edmond Pinsent was the son of Roger Pinsent by his wife, Elizabeth (née Symons). He was born and baptized in Bovey Tracey in 1692. His father was probably a “weaver” and “agricultural labourer” who lived at “Higher Yeo” in the Manor of Wreyland. Roger seems to have been a member of its manor court jury in the early 1710s (Wreyland Documents: Cecil Torr: 1910). 

Roger and Elizabeth had six children; however only two, Edmond Pinsent and his younger brother (another Roger Pinsent) can be shown to have married and had children. Edmond “of Wrayland in Bovey Tracey” married Mary Satterley in Lustleigh parish church in 1716 and his children were baptized and (and in some cases buried) there. Edmond’s father held the family tenement in “Higher Yeo” through to his death in 1720. At that point the “copyhold” (if that was what his right of tenure to the property was) probably passed to Edmond.

Edmond and Mary had a short-lived daughter in 1717. Their first son, Richard arrived the following year and another daughter, Sarah, arrived in 1721. They had a short-lived son, Edmond Pinsent, in 1724. However, he died when he was two years old. Edmond and Mary had another daughter, Joan, in 1727. Her fate is uncertain.

Sadly, only one of  Edmond Pinsent “of Wrayland’s” children can be traced with any degree of certainty. His daughter Sarah married Daniel Kater or “Cater” in Lustleigh in 1747. Sarah and Daniel Cater (“yeoman” of Bovey Tracey) and three other parties – Nicholas Wrayford (a “haberdasher” in Moretonhampstead), William Causley (a “carpenter” in Lustleigh) and George Miller (a “yeoman” in Manaton) are named in a quadripartite indenture involving several parcels of land drawn up in 1767 (S. H. Neck & Co., Moretonhampstead: Devon Records Office 4930 B/T/M/89). The document states that Sarah Cater was then the “only child and heir of Edmond Pinsent, late of Bovey Tracey in the said County, yeoman, deceased, who died intestate.”

The indenture ensures that several tenements that Nicholas Wrayford held in Mortonhampstead would be transferred to him on payment of a “fine” to George Miller. Similarly, the document ensures that Daniel Cater and his wife acquired control of “the moiety and halfendale of five fields, closes or parcels of land and pasture, formerly but four fields or closes, called or known by the name or names of the Blandwill, the Furze Park, the Little Park and the Higher Downs with their appurtenances, situated in Bovey Tracey, aforesaid, formerly part or parcel of, or belonging to, a messuage or tenement called “Yeo” in Bovey Tracey, aforesaid, which said moiety of the said fields or closes formerly was in the possession of the said Edmond Pinsent, his tenant and tenants but now, and for several years last past, in the possession of the said Daniel Cater and Sarah, his wife, his or her tenant or tenants.” It also ensured that William Causley acquired control of a dwelling house and property called Pound’s Cote, in Lustleigh. 

The indenture tells us that Sarah’s brother Richard and her sister Joan must both have died by 1767. I have no marriage or burial record for Richard. If he married and had a son named Richard in the 1740s, then there could be a link to the BRISTOL Branch of the family. This starts with a Richard Pinson who married Elizabeth Gregory in Lustleigh in 1775. Another Richard Pinson (his father?) witnessed the marriage. For now, the link is nothing but conjecture. 

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Unknown
Grandmother: Unknown

PARENTS

Father: Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720
Mother: Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783

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