Vital Statistics
Joseph Benjamin Pinsent: 1865 – 1897 GRO0541 (Jeweler, London, England)
Elizabeth Fanny Boulter: 1867 – xxxx
Married: 1890: London, Middlesex
Children by Elizabeth Fanny Boulter:
Elizabeth Kate Pinsent: 1891 – 1891
Lilian May Pinsent: 1893 – 1972 (Married Edwin Henry Squire, 1923, London, Middlesex)
Elizabeth Sarah Pinsent: 1894 – xxxx (Married Leonard Victor Lewis, 1920, London, Middlesex)
Kate Josephine Pinsent: 1897 – xxxx (Married Jack James Varrier, 1923, Folkestone, Kent)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0541
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Joseph Benjamin was the second eldest son of James Pinsent by his wife Sarah (née Savage). He was born in St. Luke’s parish in north London, where his father was a “greengrocer and fruit salesman.” He came from what was to be a large family comprised of nine boys and four girls. Joseph was an “apprentice” living with his family on Witchampton Street, in St. Leonard’s parish when the Census was taken in 1881. Presumably, he was apprenticed to a “jeweler”, as he was said to be one when he married Elizabeth Fanny Boulter, the daughter of a “carpenter”, in Islington, in 1890. They had moved to St. Margaret’s Grove in Islington by the time when next census was taken, the following year.
Joseph Benjamin belonged to the “Oakley Harriers”, a cross-country running club, that was based at the “Boileau Arms”, in Barnes – just south of the River Thames near Richmond. The club regularly staged runs of between one and ten miles in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Joseph is first described as running with them in July 1888, when he was twenty-three years old (Sporting Life Wednesday 21st November 1888). He ran intermittently after his marriage and was presumably in the team photograph when it was taken in October 1890 (Sporting Life: Saturday 18th October 1890).
Joseph Benjamin and Elizabeth had four daughters; however, as the first died shortly after its birth, Joseph and Elizabeth (née Boulter) were living with only two daughters in 1895 (London, England, Electoral Registers: 1847-1913). They rented a three-room house or apartment on Iffley Road in Hammersmith (just north of the river). It cost them 7s 6s a week. Benjamin contracted typhoid fever two years later and died in “St. George’s Hospital”, Hanover Square in October 1897. Elizabeth was pregnant at the time. She had a third daughter in December, shortly after he died.
Elizabeth was a thirty-year old mother with three young children to look after. How she made ends meet, I am not sure; however, she was a “daily worker” (doing what is not stated) living on Mountgrove Road with her middle-daughter Lilian when the next census was taken, in 1901. Where the eldest, Sarah, was at the time, I am not sure; however, her youngest daughter, Kate, had definitely been adopted by the Neave family. She was then living in Great Bardfield, near Braintree in Essex. Elizabeth (née Boulter) married Charles Taylor, a tobacconist later that same year (1901).
Lilian “Lily” had been admitted into an orphanage school, “Hargrave Park” in Pemberton Gardens, in Islington, in July 1900 (London, England, School Admissions and Discharges: 1840 – 1911: Ancestry.com). Her sister Elizabeth joined her in August 1902. However, their younger sister Kate was with the Neave family in Great Bardfield and, after they moved, in Folkestone, in Kent.
Elizabeth (née Boulter) lost touch with her youngest daughter and argued the “Presumption of (her) Death” when claiming the £13 9s 10d, content of a “Post Office Savings Account” that must have been made out in her name soon after her birth: “she gave evidence at the hearing that the depositor was born shortly after the death of her husband in October 1897 …” (Papers By Command: Volume 76: Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons: H.M. Stationery Office: 1914).
Charles Taylor, Elizabeth, and her other daughters moved to the Guinness Building in Hammersmith in 1910. Elizabeth, who had presumably taken her second husband’s name, then drops out of sight.
Her daughters remained Pinsents. Elizabeth Sarah was a “globe stamper” when she married Leonard Victor Lewis – an “army pensioner” – in Hammersmith in 1920. Her sister Lilian May was later (1923) to marry Edwin Henry Squire, who was a “black and white artist.” They probably never knew that their missing sister, Kate Josephine, married a butcher, Jack James Varrier, in Folkestone a few months later, in September 1923.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1799 – 1878
Grandmother: Susanna Morrish: 1799 – 1875
PARENTS
Father: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Mother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Joseph Pinsent: 1830 – 1840
Mary Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
John L. Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
Susan Morrish Pinsent: 1836 – 1889
William Pinsent: 1837 – 1881
James Pinsent: 1839 – 1905
Melissa Pinsent: 1841 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
George James Pinsent: 1859 – 1860
James Walter Pinsent: 1861 – 1948
Joseph Benjamin Pinsent: 1865 – 1897
William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918
Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Albert Hibbard Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
Edward Charles Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
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