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Birth: 1838
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0947
William was the illegitimate son of Amelia Pinsent.
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Birth: 1944
Marriage: 1968
Spouse: Wife (GRO1468)
Death: 2017
Children by Wife (GRO1468):
Son (GRO0950)
Son (GRO0951)
Daughter (GRO0952)
Son (GRO0953)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0907
Grandfather: William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963
Grandmother: Maud Eleanor Spall: 1892 – 1939
Father: William Thomas James Pinsent: 1914 – 1996
Mother: Ethel Mary Fearnley: 1916 – 2001
William Thomas James Pinsent: 1914 – 1996
Leonard Albert Walter Pinsent: 1916 – 1995
Ronald Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1921 – 1942
Joyce Elizabeth Pinsent: 1923 – xxxx
Brother (GRO0755)
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William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918 GRO0905 (Covent Garden Fruit Salesman, London, Middlesex
Rose Emmeline Parsons: 1872 – 1950
Married: 1891: London, Middlesex
Children by Rose Emmeline Parsons:
William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963 (Married (1) Maud Eleanor Spall, London, Middlesex, 1913; (2) Elizabeth Thornley, 1942, Barnet, Hertfordshire, 1942)
Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979 (Married Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Kaylor, London, Middlesex, 1921)
Henry Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1897
Leonard Charles Pinsent: 1898 – 1974
Rose Marguerita Pinsent: 1900 – 1918
Violet Pinsent: 1902 – xxxx (Married Albert Johnson, London, Middlesex, 1924)
Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967 (Married (1) Kathleen Croney, 1924; (2) Lilian Mary Hynes, London, Middlesex, 1930)
Ivy Lilian Pinsent: 1909 – xxxx (Married George J. Sawyer, London, Middlesex, 1928)
Marguerite Florence Ethel Pinsent: 1911 – 1911
Marguerite Winifred Pinsent: 1913 – 2006 (Married George William Carey, London, Middlesex, 1932)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0905
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William John was the third surviving son of James Pinsent, “greengrocer” and “fruit market salesman,” by his wife, Sarah (née Savage). He was born in Holborn where his family could be found at time of the 1871 Census, and he grew up there and, later on, on Witchampton Street in St. Leonard’s parish, Hackney. He had five brothers and four sisters; four each of whom were later to marry.
The British Government mandated education up to the age of ten years in 1880 and William John was a “scholar” in St. Leonard’s parish at the time of the 1881 Census.
In September 1885, when he was only seventeen years and nine months old, William signed on for six years service with the 3rd Battalion the Middlesex Regiment. It was a militia regiment, so he did not expect to see service overseas. His attestation papers show that he was 5 feet 3 1/4 inches in height, had a sallow complexion, brown eyes, black hair and a distinguishing scar on his right buttock! I am not sure how he got that.
William was a “market porter” living with his parents on Woodville Road, in Islington, when the next census was taken, in 1891. However, he seems to have married and moved out a few months later. He married Rose Emmeline Parsons, the daughter of a “bootmaker” in St. James’s parish, Shoreditch, in September 1891.
William John and Rose Emmeline had ten children, five boys and five girls, over the next twenty-one years. Only one of each died young, which must be a testament to the much improved living conditions found in London at the end of the nineteenth century. William and Rose had the first two of their surviving sons (William George James Pinsent and Sidney Henry Pinsent) while living on Red Lion Street, in Shoreditch, in the 1890s and the next three (Leonard Charles Pinsent, Rose Marguerita Pinsent and Violet Pinsent) while living on Norway Street, in Holborn in the early 1900s. From there, the family moved to St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, and – after a couple of short-term rentals – settled in Poole Street. They had their younger surviving children (Bertram H. Pinsent, Ivy Lilian Pinsent and Marguerite Winifred Pinsent) while living there.
Interestingly, Violet was admitted to the nearby Gopsall Street School in April 1907, on the same day as her cousin Alfred Pinsent. He was the son of William John’s younger brother, Thomas Henry Pinsent. The two families had kept in touch.
The census records tell us that William was a “Covent Garden Porter” in 1911. He lived in a three-room apartment on Poole Street in Shoreditch with his wife, Rose, their unmarried sons William (who as a “corn chandler’s assistant,”) and Sidney, (an “errand boy”), his school-age children Leonard, Bertram, Rose and Violet Pinsent and two newcomers. Ivy was two years old and Marguerite Pinsent was all of 28 days old! It must have been crowded.
William John Pinsent rejoined the Army as a Private in the Royal Army Service Corps. [#T4/071331] in March 1915, and British Army Service Records show that he was sent to France a month later; however he was discharged for medical reasons – “sickness” – on 1st June the following year (WO 372/16). He had served abroad and he was thus eligible for the Victory and British Medals, the 15 Star Medal and the U.K. Silver War Badge. On his return (and subsequent recovery) William appears to have gone back to being a Covent Garden “fruit salesman”. Sadly, he died of complications (pneumonia) following influenza in November 1918. He must have been an early casualty of the epidemic that plagued Europe after the First World War.
William and Rose’s three elder son, William George James Pinsent, Sidney Henry Pinsent and Leonard Charles Pinsent also joined the armed forces. All three survived but only two (William and Sidney) married and had children. Their lives are described elsewhere. The third and youngest, Leonard Charles never married. He lived with his mother until she died in Islington in 1950, and then went to live with his youngest sister (Marguerite) and her family.
Leonard Charles Pinsent was educated at the Hamond Square Infant School from 1903 to 1906 and at the Gopsall Street, Boys’ school (both in Hackney) until around 1909. In those days, it was common practice for working-class boys to leave school and enter the workforce at the age of twelve or thirteen and that is, presumably, what he did. I am not sure what he did before he signed on for military service during the First World War. He enlisted as an eighteen-year-old private [#50626] in the South Lancashire Regiment and was sent abroad with his regiment. He was wounded in June 1989 (British Army Casualty Lists) but survived, returned to England and was discharged in October 1918 – a few days before the war actually ended. He was awarded the Victory and British Medals and the Silver War Badge (British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index and U.K. Silver War Badge Records: (National Archives WO 372/16)). However, he did not qualify for either of the Star Medals as they were only given to soldiers who served in 1914 and 1915.
Several of William’s children had already left home before the census takers returned to Poole Street in 1921, so only six remained in his widow, Rose’s, care. Sydney and Leonard were “packing case dealers” who worked from home; Violet was a “hair pin packer” employed by “Chalmers Hair Pin Makers,” of Branch Place in London; Bertram was a “grocer’s assistant,” employed by his elder brother “W. G. Pinsent, Grocer, of 99 Bridport Place.” Ivy and Marguerite Pinsent, they two youngest were at school full time.
Leonard lived with his mother on Poole Street from 1921 to at least 1929 (London, England Electoral Register: 1847-1965: Ancestry.com). However, they had both moved to Newington Green Road, in the Mildmay district of Islington by 1938 (same source) and they were there when the (Second World) Wartime Register was compiled the following year. Leonard was described as being “incapacitated”. Whether this was a short-term injury or a long-term affliction, perhaps dating back to the First World War, is not stated. Rose and Leonard were still living together on Newington Road in 1949. Rose died there the following year.
Leonard Charles stayed on in London. He went to live with his youngest sister, Marguerite Winifred (née Pinsent) and her husband, George William Carey, in Woodlands Road in Edmonton (London, England, Electoral Registers: 1932-1965). He died in Hackney in 1974.
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1799 – 1878
Grandmother: Susanna Morrish: 1799 – 1875
Father: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Mother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
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
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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Birth: 1874
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1876
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0902
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: 1892
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1892
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0898
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Grandmother: Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
Father: George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Mother: Sarah Ann Brewin: 1866 – 1937
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Annie Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx
Harriet Pinsent: 1875 – 1959
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
Florence Pinsent: 1880 – 1901
Maria Pinsent: 1885 – 1943 * Illegitimate
William Henry Pinsent: 1892 – 1892
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William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963 GRO0896 (Grain and later Spice Merchant, London, Middlesex)
1. Maud Eleanor Spall: 1892 – 1939
Married: 1913: London, Middlesex
Children by Maud Eleanor Spall:
William Thomas James Pinsent: 1914 – 1996 (Married Ethel Mary Fearnley: Morden, Surrey, 1938)
Leonard Albert Walter Pinsent: 1916 – 1995 (Married (1) Theresa Nazer Warren, London, Middlesex, 1939; (2) Enid Taylor, Westminster, Middlesex, 1955)
Ronald Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1921 – 1942 (Married Pauline Marie Potter, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, 1941)
Joyce Elizabeth Pinsent: 1923 – xxxx (Married Harry Standing Burrows, 1942)
2. Elizabeth Thornley: 1912 – 1975
Married: 1942: Barnet, Hertfordshire
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0896
William George James was the eldest son of William John Pinsent by his wife Rose Emeline (née Parsons). He was born in London, where his father was a “market porter” and, later, a “ fruit salesman.” He grew up with three younger brothers (Sidney Henry, Leonard Charles and Bertram Horace Pinsent) and five sisters (Rose Marguerita, Violet, Ivy Lilian and one other). They were born in either Shoreditch or Holborn in north London over a period of approximately twenty years.
William and his younger brother Sidney were admitted to “Hamond Square School”, in Hackney in March 1898 (London, England, School Admissions and Discharges: 1840-1911: Ancestry.com). He left when he was around twelve, and he was an eighteen-years old “corn chandler’s assistant” when the census was taken in 1911. He was living with his parents and seven siblings in three rooms on Poole Street, in Hoxton (Shoreditch) at the time. William married Maud Eleanor Spall, a “fur liner” who was the daughter of a “refreshment room attendant” at Shoreditch Registry Office in September 1913. They moved to Minton Street, and their first child, William Thomas James Pinsent was born there the following April (1914).
William enlisted as a private in the “Scots Guards” in September 1915 [Regimental #14438]; however, it was a short attachment as he was discharged a couple of months later on account of “deafness”. His service records have “not likely etc. (medical grounds)” written against his name (National Archives WO 372/16). This probably meant that he was deemed not likely to make an effective soldier. On his discharge, William attempted to reenter civilian life. He advertised for a position in the grain trade (London Daily Chronicle: 14th December 1915). Perhaps there were none going as William George Pinsent was described as being a “munitions worker” when his second son (Leonard Albert Walter Pinsent) was born in August 1916. Somewhat later, William joined the army’s “Labour Corp.” The latter contacted the Scots Guards looking for William’s documents to add to those of their Pte. Wm. Geo. Pinsent, [#531497]. when the war ended, he was discharged on 14th February 1919 and granted the “Victory”, “British” and “U.K. Silver War Badge” for his wartime service.
London’s electoral registers show that William was living with Ernest Arthur and Kate Gotcher on Rectory Road in Hackney in 1919. I am not sure where his wife was at the time! Perhaps she was with her family or with her mother-in-law. William George and and Eleanor had settled in Rectory Road (near Stoke Newington Police Station) by the time the next census was taken, in 1921. He was said to be a “corn chandler” working on his own account. His wife Maud and his two sons, William Thomas (who was at school) and Leonard Albert (who would be following him fairly soon) were shortly to be joined by a third son, Ronald Bertram and a daughter.
According to the London Post Office Directory, William George was a “grain chandler” who worked out of Bridport Place (adjacent to Shoreditch Park) in the mid 1920s (London, England, City Directories, 1736-1943). However, the days of the horse-drawn cart and carriage were numbered by then, and there must have been fewer and fewer horses for him to feed. William needed to diversify: so he became a “Spice and Herb Merchant” (British Telephone Books 1880-1984: Ancestry.com). The Electoral Registers tell us that William George and Eleanor continued to live on Rectory Road until around 1929. They had moved to a house on Elderfield Road by 1931 and, from there, decamped to Nightingale Road, in Lower Clapton, by 1932 (Electoral Registers).
William must have been a successful businessman as he was able to move his spice business to St. John’s Lane in Clerkenwell, near London’s city centre, while at the same time moving his family from north-central London to Osidge Lane, in East Barnet – where they lived from 1935 until the mid-1950s (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984). William George and his then second wife Elizabeth (née Thornley) moved to Westcliff on Sea, near Southend in Essex in around 1955.
William George and Maud Eleanor (née Spall) had three sons and a daughter. The three boys, William Thomas James Pinsent , Leonard Albert Walter Pinsent and Ronald Bertram Horace Pinsent grew up and married in the London area. William Thomas and Leonard Albert had children and their lives are discussed elsewhere. However, Ronald Bertram was less fortunate.
Ronald Bertram Horace Pinsent married Pauline Marie Potter, the daughter of a “clerk” in East Barnet, in August 1941, shortly before joining the Royal Air Force. He was sent to the United States for pilot training and was one of several young pilots (“Leading Aircraftsmen”) based out of Moody Field in Valdosta, Georgia, who were killed in a night-flight training accident in July 1942. They died in a four-way plane accident over Madison, along with a United States Army officer, on the night of the 14/15th July 1942 (Anniston Star: 16th July 1942). Ronald was one of several hundred British cadets sent to Moody Field for training during the Second World War. Nine of them died accidentally in training (U.S.-findagrave-Ancestry.com).
Administration of Ronald’s somewhat limited estate (£111 2s 6d) was granted to his widow’s attorney, her father Harry Francis Potter (England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administration) 1858-1946) on 14th June 1946. Pauline may well have been living in New Zealand by then. Clearly, Ronald’s death had not frightened her off pilots. She married Kenneth Stuart Leigh, a New Zealand “school teacher” who was a “Flying Officer” in the “Royal New Zealand Air Force” in 1944. Pauline had no children by Ronald and she was able to move on with her life.
William George James’s wife, Maud Eleanor (née Spall), died of pneumonia in Great Clacton near Colchester in Essex in September 1939, and he married Elizabeth Thornley, the daughter of a “market gardener” in Barnet in August 1942 – which must have been shortly after he learnt of his youngest son’s death in the United States. There were no children by the second marriage – at least that I am aware of. On a happier note, William’s daughter, also married in 1942.
After the war, William George Pinsent continued to run his business as a “spice merchant” out of St. John’s Lane in Central London. His eldest son, William Thomas James Pinsent joined him and took it over when his father retired and moved to Westcliff on Sea, near Southend, in Essex. William George died in February 1963. Probate of his estate, which was valued at over £10,000, was granted to two local solicitors working on behalf of his executors. William’s business passed to his son William Thomas James Pinsent and it continued to function much as before. The firm of “William G. Pinsent, Spice Merchant, 2 St. John’s Lane, E.C. 1” was still around as late as 1983 (Kelly’s Manufacturers and Merchants Directory.) It evolved over time but the shop is in essence the same today.
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
Father: William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918 ✔️
Mother: Rose Emeline Parsons: 1872 – 1950
George James Pinsent: 1859 – 1860
James Walter Pinsent: 1861 – 1948
Sarah Lydia Pinsent: 1863 – 1942
Joseph Benjamin Pinsent: 1865 – 1897
Louisa Mary Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918 ✔️
Martha Elizabeth Pinsent: 1871 – xxxx
Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Georgina Frances Pinsent: 1875 – xxxx
Albert Hibbard Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
Edward Charles Pinsent: 1878 – 1878
George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963
Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979
Henry Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1897
Leonard Charles Pinsent: 1898 – 1974
Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967
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Birth: 1835
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1835
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1031
Grandfather: Benjamin Pinsent: 1776 – 1819
Grandmother: Esther Best: 1773 – 1868
Father: William Pinsent: 1812 – 1893
Mother: Mary Ann Bright: 1813 – 1887
Samuel Benjamin Pinsent: 1794 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1795 – xxxx
Ann Pinsent: 1797 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1799 – xxxx
Sarah Lucy Pinsent: 1800 – xxxx
Esther Pinsent: 1805 – xxxx
Benjamin Pinsent: 1805 – xxxx
Benjamin Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1812 – xxxx
Emily Pinsent: 1815 – xxxx
Amelia Pinsent: 1818 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1835 – 1835
William Pinsent: 1847 – 1871
Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902
James Primrose Pinsent: 1857 – 1860
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William Pinsent: 1812 – 1893 GRO1030 (Wheelwright and Coach maker, London, Middlesex)
Mary Ann Bright: 1813 – 1887
Married: 1833: London, Middlesex
Children by Mary Ann Bright:
Eliza Pinsent: 1833 – 1835
William Pinsent: 1835 – 1835
Emma Pinsent: 1836 – xxxx (Married William Mapp, London, Middlesex, 1865)
Maria Pinsent: 1839 – 1855
Esther Pinsent: 1842 – 1926 (Married Frank Gerrard, London Middlesex, 1868)
William Pinsent: 1847 – 1871
Eliza Pinsent: 1849 – xxxx (Married William Hotchen, London, Middlesex, 1868)
Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902 (Married Frances Jane Dunk, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx)
James Primrose Pinsent: 1857 – 1860
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1030
William Pinsent was the youngest son of Benjamin Pinsent by his wife Esther Best. He was born in Holborn in London, where his father was a carpenter, and he grew up there with his one surviving brother (Benjamin Pinsent) and four surviving sisters (Ann, Sarah Lucy, Esther and Amelia Pinsent). Benjamin’s life is described elsewhere.
William married Mary Ann Bright in St. Pancras Old Church, in London on 1st January 1833. They had their first child Eliza later that year; however, she died when eighteen months old after the family had settled on Gilbert Street in Bloomsbury. She was buried there. The couple went on to have at least nine children – four boys and five girls – over the next twenty-four years. However, several died while still young and their names were re-used. Only one of the boys (Alfred Frederick Pinsent) lived to marry and have children. The girls did somewhat better. Three (Emma, Esther and Eliza) married. Maria was a sixteen year-old “fringe maker” when she died of typhoid fever in 1855. William’s brother Benjamin Pinsent and his wife Mira (née Burgoyne) suffered similar losses.
There were all-too-frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid in London during the first half of the nineteenth century. The cause only came to light in 1854 when a City doctor, John Snow, studied the morbidity returns for the parish of Soho and realized that a drinking-water pump on Broad Street must be producing contaminated water and responsible for the spread of the disease. The city’s sewage had been allowed to flow downhill into the Thames for centuries – which might have been fine in Tudor times but recent population growth made that mode of disposal not only untenable but also unbearable. The summer of 1858 was particularly hot and, for many years thereafter it was (not so fondly) remembered as “the year of the big stink”. The City fathers finally succumbed to public pressure and had one of their engineer’s (Joseph Bazalgette) design a system for collecting and pumping the sewage and releasing it into the Thames well below the point where it would back-up to London on the in-coming tide. It took several years to complete but it was worth it as the health (and smell) of the city improved considerably.
The early 1800s was a poor time to be a craftsman as population growth, mechanization and mass production reduced demand for bespoke items and whereas William and Benjamin’s father and grandfather were able to survive as craftsman, they could not. Both suffered periods of insolvency. William Pinsent, “formerly of No 14, Gilbert Street and late of No. 1 Woburn Court, Duke Street in Bloomsbury”, was brought up for a hearing at the Court House in Portugal Street in February 1835 (London Gazette: 6th February 1835). He was said to be a “labourer”.
William was back living on Gilbert Street in June 1841, when the census was taken. Interestingly, they had a three week-old infant in their household. I do not know who this was as Maria would have been over a year old and Esther yet to be born! Ten years later, in 1851, William was a “wheelwright’s assistant” living on Gilbert Street with his wife and three children Esther (8), William (4) and Eliza (1). His eldest child, Maria (who was a “scholar” aged 11) was living with her aunt Maria Hill and her cousin Emma Hill (14) elsewhere on Gilbert Street.
I have not found the William’s census record for 1861; however his daughter Esther (18) was a “servant” in a “surgeon’s” household in Great Russell Street. Interestingly, her younger sister Eliza (11) was there too. She was a “servant” and also a “scholar”. Esther was to marry Frank Gerrard, a “tailor” from St. Martin’s in the Fields parish, in November 1868 and Eliza was to marry William Hotchen, an “engraver,” there earlier in the same month. When they married, the two girls gave their father’s profession as “coach maker”. A few years earlier, when their sister Emma married William Mapp (a “car-man”) in 1965, she had referred to her father as a “wheelwright.” Presumably he made wheels for coaches!
I have yet to find Williams census data for 1871; however I know that his eldest son, William, died in St. George’s Hospital in Hanover Square that year. He was unmarried. His brother Alfred Frederick Pinsent’s life is described elsewhere. Suffice it to say that grew up to marry and have children in New Zealand. Sadly, William and Mary Ann’s youngest son, James Primrose, was not so lucky. He aged three years, in 1860. The name “Primrose” comes from his mother (Mary Ann née Bright’s) side of the family.
It is not clear when William Pinsent died. His “wife” Mary Ann (née Bright) was reported to be a “widow” living in the “Chelsea Workhouse” when the census was taken in 1881 and she was a “widow” when she died there, in January 1887. This certainly implies that her husband died earlier, probably in the 1870s; however, I can find no suitable candidate. There was a William Pinsent who died in the “St. Pancras Workhouse” in July 1893, so perhaps this was our man – other researchers (on-line) seem to think so.
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1738 – 1825
Grandmother: Anne Wright: 1740 – 1815
Father: Benjamin Pinsent: 1776 – 1819 ✔️
Mother: Esther Best: 1773 – 1868
James Pinsent: 1769 – 1833
Mary Pinsent: 1771 – xxxx
Dorothy Pinsent: xxxx – 1590
Benjamin Pinsent: 1776 – 1819
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1776 – xxxx
Samuel Benjamin Pinsent: 1794 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1795 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1799 – xxxx
Benjamin Pinsent: 1805 – xxxx
Benjamin Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1812 – xxxx
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Birth: 1822
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0982
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1769 – 1833
Grandmother: Hannah Brimson: 1766 – xxxx
Father: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Mother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871
William Pinsent: 1792 – 1844
Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860 ✔️
Anne Pinsent: 1799 – 1801
Richard Pinsent: 1799 – xxxx
Fanny Pinsent: 1804 – xxxx
Jane Pinsent: 1804 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1822 – xxxx ✔️
Thomas Pinsent: 1824 – 1831
James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Henry Pinsent: 1838 – 1846
George Pinsent: 1839 – 1857
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
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Birth: 1792
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1844
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0887
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1738 – 1825
Grandmother: Anne Wright: 1740 – 1815
Father: James Pinsent: 1769 – 1833
Mother: Hannah Brimson: 1766 – xxxx
James Pinsent: 1769 – 1833
Mary Pinsent: 1771 – xxxx
Dorothy Pinsent: xxxx – 1590
Benjamin Pinsent: 1776 – 1819
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1776 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1792 – 1844
Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Richard Pinsent: 1799 – xxxx
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