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Birth: 1916 (née Ethel Mary Fearnley)
Marriage: 1938
Spouse: William Thomas James Pinsent
Death: 2001
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0949
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Birth: 1890
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1957
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0280
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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Birth: 1805
Spouse: James King (1828), George Charles (1947), John Cunningham (1855)
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1295
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 – 1893
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Birth: 1843
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0277
Grandfather: Benjamin Pinsent: 1776 – 1819
Grandmother: Esther Best: 1773 – 1868
Father: Benjamin Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
Mother: Myra Burgoyne: 1815 – 1869
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 – 1893
Emily Pinsent: 1815 – xxxx
Amelia Pinsent: 1818 – xxxx
Samuel Benjamin Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Joseph Pinsent: 1840 – 1841
Edward Brand Pinsent: 1845 – 1846
George Henry Pinsent: 1847 – 1849
John Pinsent: 1850 – 1856
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Birth: 1842
Marriage: 1868
Spouse: Frank Gerrard
Death: 1926
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0276
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 – 1893
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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Birth: 1773 (née Esther Best)
Marriage: 1792
Spouse: Benjamin Pinsent
Death: 1868
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0279
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Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902 GRO0273 (shoe clicker, Leicester)
Florence Oram or Deacon: 1878 – xxxx
Marriage: Leicester, Leicestershire: 1897
Children by Florence Oram or Deacon:
Walter Pinsent: 1897 – 1947
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0273
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Ernest Alfred Pinsent was the youngest son of Charles Pinsent by his wife, Susannah (née Bagshaw). He born in Leicester and, as his father died when he was five years old, was largely brought up by his mother.
When Ernest Alfred was a thirteen year-old boy living on Ridley Street, he was reprimanded by the City Coroner for his part in the death of Thomas Parr, an old man he had accidentally knocked down while playing ball with his friends. The Coroner pointed out that it was an offense to play with a ball in the street at any time and that the man’s death could be construed as manslaughter. The jury was, however, merciful and gave a verdict of “homicide by misadventure.” Ernest and his friends got away with a strict warning (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 30th May 1891).
Ernest was a “shoe clicker” when he married Florence Deacon in 1897. They seem to have had one child, a son, Walter Pinsent, who was born that same year. The family was living on Western Road when the census takers came by in 1901. So it seems that Ernest and Forence and their baby were living with his widowed mother and his as yet unmarried sisters (Florence Pinsent and Marie Pinsent).
Ernest Alfred Pinsent died in 1902 and his widow, Florence Pinsent, seems to have married George Arthur Gray, a “school attendance officer” in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, in 1907. Interestingly, the marriage record claims that her father’s name was John Oram and not Deacon. It is not clear which is correct. Presumably Ernest’s son Walter was brought up in Wigston Magna – a village just outside Leicester.
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Grandmother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871
Father: Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Mother: Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
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
John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Henry Pinsent: 1838 – 1846
George Pinsent: 1839 – 1857
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
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Birth: 1891
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO2032
Ernest is the son of Emma Hubbard during her first marriage. He may have reverted to the use of his birth father’s name.
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Ernest “Pinsent”: 1889 – 1966 GRO0272
Mabel Braimridge: 1889 – 1982
Married: 1910: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Mabel Braimridge:
Ethel May Pinsent: 1910 – 1996
Lilian Margaret Pinsent: 1912 – 2005
Horace Pinsent: 1913 – 1913
Marjorie Kathleen Pinsent: 1915 – 1915
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0272
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Ernest “Pinsent” was born to Harriet Hunt a couple of years before she married John Arthur Pinsent, and he grew up alongside their two legitimate surviving children, Ethel May Pinsent and Horace Pinsent. John Arthur, Ernest’s father (or step-father) was a shoe finisher for much of Ernest’s early life; however, the 1911 census shows that he later became a publican and ran the “King’s Head” beer house in Burley’s Lane, in Leicester.
Ernest married the daughter of a “bricklayer”, Mabel Braimridge, in 1910 and the following year’s census shows that they were living on Hull Street with a baby daughter, Ethel May Pinsent. Ernest was a “hotel barman” and Mabel was a “hosiery machinist”. They were to have another daughter, Lillian Margaret Pinsent while living on Hull Street and two more children, a son Horace Pinsent and a daughter Marjorie Kathleen Pinsent after moving to Archdeacon Lane in around 1913. Sadly both of the younger children died within a year of birth. A coroner’s inquest shows that their child Horace had been a sickly child from birth, and he had recently been attended by a doctor. He died of “convulsions from a stomach disorder.” (Leicester Daily Mercury: Wednesday 3rd December 1913).
In August 1916, Ernest Pinsent enrolled as a private in the Leicestershire Regiment (#27246); however, he was later transferred to the 19th London Regiment (#617290). Ernest was demobilized in November 1918 and returned to Leicester and was for a while, a “hosiery hand” – alongside his daughters. Ernest had served his country and he applied for – and presumably received the British War and Victory Medals.
Ernest and was said to be a “hosiery dealer” working on his own account when the census takers next called in 1921 and Mabel was a “hosiery machinist” working for “N. Corah & Sons, Hosiery Manufacturers,” at their “St. Margaret’s Works.” Ernest’s father and mother were living with them on Archdeacon Lane and they, presumably, helped to look after Ernest’s two children – their grandchildren, Ethel May and Lilian Margaret Pinsent, both of whom were still at school. John Arthur was said to be an out of work “licensed victualler” who worked on his own account at the time, and he was said to have previously lived on Burley Lane.
As a “general dealer,” Ernest seems to have been flexible about what he dealt with and where it came from! He pleaded “not guilty” of stealing five dozen pairs of ladies hose (valued at £5 5s 0d) from a warehouse in Church Gate, declaring that he had seen them on a pile of straw in a back lane behind the premises of “Toone and Wells” and he had put them in a bag to take round to the main office. He was apprehended by the caretaker and charged after a witness claimed to have seen the items thrown from a window and someone resembling him leaving the lane. Still, the evidence was circumstantial and the charge of theft was dropped – and that of “Receiving Stolen Goods” pursued instead. The Leicester Magistrates found him guilty (Leicester Evening Mail: 17th June 1925).
Two years later, Ernest Pinsent (38) of #13 Archdeacon Lane was charged with conspiring with two other men to obtain honey (and other items) by false pretenses. His solicitor applied for bail, claiming that Ernest and his father were “in a very good position in the city;” however, the Deputy Chief Constable objected and it was, at least at first, refused (Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 7th July 1927). The three defendants claimed to be representing a new grocery and they bought items from distributors with no intention of paying for them. The scam had been going on for several months and the police laid thirteen charges of obtaining items to the value of £135 under false pretenses against them (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 19th July 1927). Ernest was, eventually, granted bail. He may have testified against his so-called partners as he appears to have been discharged (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 26th July 1927).
In March 1929, Ernest was charged with either stealing a parcel containing 37 women’s “jumpers” (cardigans, sweaters) worth £9 5s from a “L.N.E.R.” (London North Eastern Railway) “dray” (cart!) – or at least with receiving them knowing them to be stolen. The “jumpers” had been stolen from the back of the dray as it was parked in the street and had turned up during a search of his front room (Leicester Evening May: Friday 1st March 1929). Ernest said that a man he only knew by the the name of George “brought them and offered them for 30s a dozen” and he had said “that if they were any good he would pay for them on Friday”. He did not know they were stolen, of course … how could he? Detective Superintendent Boon said that “for some time we have had numerous railway robberies, and this man has been under suspicion for some time. At his house was found other hosiery made by the same firm which cannot, however, be identified as stolen. Pinsent stands in the local markets at Melton, Hinckley, and Coalville and can dispose of the goods.” Ernest “had form” – he had been convicted of receiving stolen goods the previous June, and this time he was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour for “receiving” (Leicester Evening Mail: Friday 1st March and Friday 8th March, 1929).
Ernest’s daughters Lillian and Ethel married in 1934 and 1936 respectively, and Ernest and Mabel moved to Cort Crescent sometime in the 1930s. Certainly, they were there when the War-time Register was compiled in 1939. He was said to be a “flat-frame” operator in a textile factory. There must have been plenty of scope for gaming the system during the war, and Ernest was back to his old tricks trying to sell stolen “jumpers” in 1943. In July, he was charged with stealing three jumpers valued at 16s belonging to his then employer “N. Comb and Sons.” At his trial, the head commissionaire at the factory said that he saw him leaving the premises with the items in a bag. Ernest’s response had been “What can I say? Can anything be done?” Apparently not, as he was brought up at the next Quarter Sessions (Leicester Evening Mail: Thursday 22nd July 1943).
Ernest died in Leicester in 1966, and his widow, Mabel, died there in 1982.
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
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Ernest Pinsent: 1926 – 2021 GRO0271 (Electrical Engineer, Wigston, Leicestershire)
Florence May Goode: 1926 – 1987
Married: 1951: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Florence May Goode:
Stephen Ernest Pinsent: 1957 – 2022
Daughter: GRO0549
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0271
Ernest was the only son of Arthur Ernest Pinsent by his wife Lily (née Gallifant). He was born in Knighton in Leicester, where his father was a “shoe hand” who seems to have also worked for his father in his grocer’s shop on Clarendon Road. He was an “electrician” when he married Florence Maye Goode, an “accounting machine operator”, in St. John The Baptist Church in Knighton, in Leicester in 1951. In the years that followed, they had two children, a son, Stephen Ernest and a daughter.
The two children joined the “Leicester Knighton Fields Swimming Club” while at primary school and they went on to become successful competitive swimmers (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 12th November 1968). They both competed in local, district and national events throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s. Stephen, for instance, came second in in the 100 yards freestyle at the “Leicestershire ASA Junior and Open Swimming Championships” in January 1976 while his sister who was, if anything, more successful than he was came first in the girls 200 yards freestyle event (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 27th January 1976). In 1974, she was awarded a trophy at the “Leicester Amateur Swimming Association” annual meeting for having the fastest time for the 100 yards the county in her class the previous year (Leicester Daily Mercury: Friday 1st March 1974). The swim meets came thick and fast during the winter months in the 1970s and their successes and failures are well documented in the Leicester Daily Mercury and other papers. Ernest was also a swimmer. He was a member of the Leicester Club’s men’s relay team at a “Masters Tournament” (men aged over 35 years) in 1973 (Leicester Daily Mercury: Wednesday 23rd October 1973). He was the Leicester boys “team manager” when they traveled to one of their meets the following year (Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 21st September 1974.
The siblings were not the only Pinsents splashing around in the pool in those days. A distant cousin swam for the “Belgrave Swimming Club” (Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 26th October 1972) and later played water polo for the “Fosseway” team (Leicester Daily Mercury: Monday 7th May 1973).
Ernest’s family lived at Denmead Avenue, in Wigston Fields, a suburb of Leicester in the 1970s but later moved a short distance to Newton Lane. Florence May Pinsent died there in June 1987 (Leicester Daily Mercury: Tuesday 16th June 1987). She left a personal estate of less than £70,000 (England and Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995).
Ernest stayed on in the family home and after he retired, he became a director of a couple of limited companies (EINW Ltd. #01049374 and WMS Ltd. #02509524) involved in making electrical installations. However, he was not affiliated with them for long as he resigned from both of them in 1993 (Companies House). His daughter married in 1980 but his son Stephen Ernest appears to have remained single – or at least I am not aware of any marriage. Ernest and his son were living together in the family home on Newton Lane as late as 2012 (U.K. Electoral Registers) and that is likely where they were when he died, aged 95, in December 2021.
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
Father: Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Mother: Lily Gallifant: 1900 – 1994
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
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