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Birth: 1919 (née Iris Winifred Bliss)
Marriage: 1940
Spouse: Thomas William Pinsent
Death: 2002
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1008
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Birth: 1908 (née Irene Bradshaw)
Marriage: 1927
Spouse: James Leonard Pinsent
Death: 1977
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1005
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Horace James Pinsent: 1896 – 1972 GRO0432
Elvie Selina May Quarry: 1901 – 1966
Married: 1928: Melbourne, Australia
Children by Elvie Selina May Quarry:
Son (GRO1488)
Son (GRO1609)
Charles James Pinsent: xxxx – 1929
Daughter (GRO1886)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0432
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Horace James Pinsent was the youngest of the three surviving sons of George Pinsent by his wife Elizabeth (née Norman). He was born in 1896, while his father – who had been brought up to be a shoe-worker – was a making a living as a “grocer and greengrocer” on Gas Street in Leicester. Horace and his elder siblings grew up around Sanvey Gate in the City after his father took over the management of the “Old Ten Bell’s” public house; and later around Belgrave Gate, in the Haymarket district after the family transferred to the “Wagon and Horses.” Horace attended school and then, like so many other Leicester City boys, went into the shoe trade. The Census records show that he was a “packer” in a boot and shoe factory in 1911.
Horace James joined the armed forces during the First World War. He started out in the lower ranks as a Lance Corporal; however, he was promoted Corporal (Number: #3305) and eventually rose to be Second Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment (Number: #200733).
He served in France from February 1917 and applied for his campaign medals in 1921. He used his father’s address (the “British Lion“ pubic house) in Russell Square for his correspondence. Progressing through the ranks the way he did was quite an achievement. It may, however, have made it difficult for him to adjust back to civilian life. Horace stayed on in the “army reserve” for a while, and in August 1922 was upgraded from 2nd Lt. of a Service Battalion to 2nd Lt. of a line battalion in the Leicester Regiment. This was shortly before he left the service (London Gazette: 11th August 1922).
Horace James Pinsent went out to Victoria, in Australia. He left London on the “S.S. Ormonde Orient” bound for Melbourne on 1st September 1922. He was a 25 years old “engineer” by then. He worked as an “orchard hand” for a while and then settled in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne as a “driver” in 1924 (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1901 – 1936].
Horace married Elvie Selina Quarry in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne in 27th January 1928 (Melbourne Argus: Tuesday 27th January 1953). They had three sons and one daughter in the years that followed; however, one of the sons died young. Nevertheless, two of their boys seem to have married and at least one of them had children to extend the family line. They are not followed here. The daughter’s engagement was announced in the press in November 1950 and she married the following year.
Horace and Elvie moved around a bit in the Melbourne area during the 1930s and settled in St. Kilda sometime in the 1940s. They lived on Spray Street in the 1950s. By then, Horace had graduated from being a “driver” to being a “mechanic”, and from a “mechanic” to being a (presumably motor-car) “technician”. Elvie, meanwhile, was a “clerk” – when she was not caught up in “household duties” (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1903 – 1954). Spray Street was in a low-lying area and on one occasion she “rescued a batch of scones baking in her oven when (flood) water lapped against it” (Melbourne Argus: Monday 14th July 1952).
Elive died in Prahran in December 1996, and her husband, Horace James Pinsent, who was a “retired public servant” by then, died there in April 1972 (Australian D Horace Death Index: 1787-1985: Ancestry.com)
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
Father: George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Mother: Elizabeth Norman: 1859 – 1932
Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
John Thomas Pinsent: 1880 – 1880
Tom Pinsent: 1883 – 1935
George William Pinsent: 1885 – 1939
Arthur Pinsent: 1889 – 1890
Horace James Pinsent: 1896 – 1972
Benjamin Charles Pinsent: 1900 – 1900
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Birth: 1913
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1913
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0434
Grandfather: John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Grandmother: Harriet Hunt: 1868 – 1933
Father: Ernest “Pinsent”: 1889 – 1966
Mother: Mabel Braimridge: 1889 – 1982
Ethel May Pinsent: 1892 – xxxx
Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913
Ernest “Pinsent”: 1889 – 1966
Horace Pinsent: 1913 – 1913
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Birth: 1897
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1898
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO043
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
Father: Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
Mother: Elizabeth Phillis: 1872 – 1913
Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
John Harry Pinsent: 1892 – xxxx
Vincent Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1893
Arthur Ellis Pinsent: 1895 – 1895
Harry Pinsent: 1896 – 1957
Horace Pinsent: 1897 – 1898
Jack Pinsent: 1899 – 1899
George Pinsent: 1901 – 1902
John Pinsent: 1911 – xxxx
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Birth: 1893
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1913
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0431
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
Father: John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Mother: Harriet Hunt: 1868 – 1933
Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913
Ernest “Pinsent”: 1889 – 1966
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Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949 GRO0430
Eveline Maud Holt: 1879 – 1946
Married: Leicester, Leicestershire: 1903
Children by Eveline Maud Holt:
John Holt Pinsent: 1904 – 1970
Florence Pinsent: 1906 – 1906
Katherine Sarah Pinsent: 1907 – 1907
James Leonard Pinsent: 1908 – 1978
Kathleen Pinsent: 1911 – 2003
Thomas William Pinsent: 1912 – 1986
Eveline Mary Pinsent: 1915 – xxxx
Beatrice Margaret Pinsent: 1919 – 2004
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0430
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Horace was the youngest son of John Pinsent by his wife, Elizabeth (née Johnson). He was born in 1879 as the last of the eleven children the couple had over a period of twenty-four years. He grew up in Leicester, and the census records show that he was living on Birstall Street with his parents and some of his elder siblings in 1881. The family moved to Bedford Street a few years later, after his parents took over the “Sir Robert Peel” beer-house. The census records also tell us that Horace was a “schoolboy” living at home in 1891; however, he was likely put to work in the shoe business shortly thereafter – as very few boys in his social class seem to have stayed in school much after the age of twelve. In 1895, Horace and another boy were summoned for “disorderly conduct in Fennell Street.” What they were up to was left unstated but they were both discharged with a caution (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 12th January 1895).
Horace’s father died in 1899 and his mother left the pub and moved to Southdown Road, in West Humberstone, Leicester, so that was where the census takers caught up with Horace in 1901. Elizabeth (née Johnson) was then living with Horace, one of her grandsons, John Arthur Pinsent and an unrelated lodger. The three young men were all “shoe finishers.” John Arthur was the son of Elizabeth’s eldest son, Thomas Johnson Pinsent.
Horace went on to become the “shoe riveter” who married Eveline Maud Holt (a “hosiery machinist”) in Leicester, in 1903 and set up house on Tudor Road in Leicester. Horace and Eveline had eight children (three boys and five girls) over the next fifteen years; however, not all of them survived. Although the couple had had four children by 1911 only two, John Holt Pinsent and James Leonard Pinsent were still living when the census was taken in 1911. Their later children, Kathleen, Thomas William, Eveline Mary and Beatrice Margaret Pinsent all survived. Other than Beatrice – they all married.
When the census takers next called, in 1921, they found Horace, and his wife and family, still living on Tudor Street. He was then a “machine operator in the lasting room” of “F. J. Palfreyman & Co. Ltd., Boot and Shoe Manufacturers” in North Evington. His eldest son, John Holt, who was only sixteen, was also involved in the shoe trade – he was working in the press room of “H. Argyle & Co. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,” on Holme Street in Leicester. Horace’s younger children, James Leonard (13), Kathleen (9), Thomas William (8) and Eveline Mary (6) were all at at school, however, his youngest, Beatrice M. (2) was still at home with her mother who, of course, had “household duties” to attend to.
Kelly’s Directories for 1912, 1925 and 1928 show that Horace was in fact a “riveter” who, for a while, lived on Tudor Road with his Holt in-laws. He was still living there when the War-time Register was compiled in 1939. On that occasion, he was described as being a “bottom leveler and boot and shoe hand” who was living with his wife, Eveline and four of their children; Thomas W., who was an “engineer’s fitter;” Kathleen, who has a “hosiery cutter,” Eveline M., a “hosiery machinist”, and Beatrice M. who was also a “hosiery machinist.” She had signed up as an “A.R.P. (Voluntary Air Raid Precaution) Dispatch Rider”. Presumably his in-laws had long-since died. The Register has been modified to show that Eveline later became Eveline Haywood. The change must have been made after she married James William Haywood – son of Samuel – in December 1939. He was probably her brother John Holt Pinsent‘s brother-in-law He had married Florence May Haywood – daughter of Samuel – in 1929.
Eveline Maud Pinsent “of 103 Tudor Road,” died in the “General Hospital”, in Gwendolen Road in Leicester, in June 1946 and her husband, Horace, was granted “Letters of Administration” for her estate, valued at £267. He died in Great Yarmouth, three years later, and his estate, which was valued at £673, was administered by his son John Holt Pinsent (who was then a “nursing orderly”) and his daughter sister Beatrice Margaret Pinsent (who was a “nurse”) A year later, the family placed an “In Memoriam” notice in the Leicester Daily Mercury (Saturday 16th September 1950).
Kathleen Pinsent “late of 103 Tudor Road, Leicester” emigrated to the United States of America shortly after the Second World War. She boarded the Cunard Ship “Queen Mary” bound for New York in November 1947 and married Sigurd Baro, in Brooklyn, New York on 23rd December. Presumably he was a United States serviceman who had been stationed in England during the war.
Kathleen’s sister Beatrice went out to America to visit her in November 1950. She traveled as a tourist on the Cunard Ship “Queen Elizabeth” and arrived in New York on 6th November (New York Passenger Lists: 1820-1957). She was a “nurse” who may well have gone out to witness the birth of an American niece.
Kathleen was still living in Brooklyn when she received her “Certificate of Alien Admission” to the United States on 14th December 1954 (U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794 – 1995). Kathleen Baro (née Pinsent) returned to England with a young daughter on the Cunard Ship “Saxonia” in 1957 (U.K. Incoming Passenger Lists: 1878 – 1960: Findmypast). She gave her contact address in England as Chorley in Lancashire – which strongly suggests she was planning to stay with her brother James Leonard Pinsent and his family! Kathleen died in America in 2003.
Their sister Beatrice became a nurse who was, at one time, matron of Torrington Cottage Hospital in North Devon. She died in Torrington, aged 85, in 2004 (Plymouth Herald: 3rd February 2004).
Horace and Eveline Maud’s three sons all married. John Holt Pinsent married Florence May Haywood in Leicester, in 1929 and, as noted above, his younger sister, Eveline Mary Pinsent, seems to have married Florence’s brother James William Haywood ten years later. James Leonard Pinsent married Irene Bradshaw in 1927 and Thomas William Pinsent married Iris Winifred Bliss in 1940. All three had children. Their lives are discussed elsewhere.
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Grandmother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871
Father: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Mother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
Fanny Pinsent: 1820 – 1880
William Pinsent: 1822 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1824 – 1831
Caroline Pinsent: 1825 – 1864
James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – 1833
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
Henry Pinsent: 1838 – 1846
George Pinsent: 1839 – 1857
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
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Birth: 1904
Marriage: 1931
Spouse: George Arthur Ross
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0428
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Grandmother: Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
Father: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Mother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Annie Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx
Harriet Pinsent: 1875 – 1959
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
Florence Pinsent: 1880 – 1901
Maria Pinsent: 1885 – 1943 * Illegitimate
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
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Birth: 1895 (née Hilda Mabel West)
Marriage: 1916
Spouse: Arthur Pinsent
Death: 1957
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0426
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Birth: 1927
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1927
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0425
Hilda was the illegitimate daughter of Florence Louisa Pinsent.
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