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Birth: 1858 (née Caroline Deakin)
Marriage: 1883
Spouse: Thomas Johnson Pinsent
Death: 1921
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0115
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Birth: 1825
Marriage: 1848
Spouse: William Abel
Death: 1864
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0114
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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Brian Roy West Pinsent: 1925 – 1997 GRO0106 (Research Chemist, Bedford, Bedfordshire)
Olwyn Mary Winnifred Tuck: 1924 – 2010
Married: 1949: Dowglais, Glamorganshire
Children by Olwyn Mary Winnifred Tuck:
Daughter (GRO0051)
Son (GRO0105)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0106
Brian Roy West was the second son of Arthur Pinsent by his wife Hilda Mabel (née West). He was born in Hatfield, in Hertfordshire while his father was the “Head Master” of “Handside School” in Welwyn Garden City. Arthur was appointed a “Lecturer” in the “Department of Education at the University College of Wales in Aberyswtyth” in 1926, and Brian, and his elder brother Philip James Noel Pinsent were brought up living on Penglais Road in Aberystwyth in the 1930s. Brian was still at school in Aberystwyth when Britain’s War-time Register was compiled in 1939.
Both of Arthur’s sons were (perhaps predictably) good at English. However, English may have been a second language for many young Welsh boys of their age. The elementary school children in and around Aberystwyth were taken to the Cinema in 1931 and they were asked to write essays on the films they saw. The best received book prizes. It was a good way of teaching them the language (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 25th 1931). Needless to say, “Jimmie Pinsent” (a.k.a Philip James Noel Pinsent) of Alexander Road (boys) School, did well. He moved to Ardwyn School and took his love of English with him. The school held an Eisteddfod at St. David’s Parish Hall in Aberystwyth each St. David’s day in the 1920s and 1930s, probably into the 1940s if not beyond. The school houses competed for a challenge cup and certificates and/or prizes were awarded for music, poetry and recitation and Arthur had been called upon to adjudicate the more literary English language items in the 1920s; however, he seems to have stopped (presumably for conflict of interest reasons!) when his sons joined the school (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 8th March 1928 etc.).
James came first in the Eisteddfod “junior” competition with an English essay in 1933 (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 2nd March 1933) and did well in subsequent years. He also did well in this “Central Welsh Board” Examination. He graduated in 1939 and went up to Liverpool University to take a course of veterinary studies. Predictably, they were delayed by several years while he served in the armed forces. His life is discussed elsewhere.
Brian Roy West (or “Roy” as he was commonly known) also excelled in English. He had, like his brother before him, attended Alexander Road (boys) School and previously had some success in written English. In 1935, he had won a prize from the local branch of the “League of Nations Union” for an essay on “Peace” (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 25th April 1935). Roy later move to Ardwyn and competed in its Eisteddfod “junior” and “senior” English essay competitions. He came first in the Ardwyn Eisteddfod “senior” essay competition in 1940, and he shared top spot with another boy, Eddie Ellis, the following year (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 6th March 1941). In his final year at school he gave the second best “short speech” and received his “Central Welsh Board, Higher School Certificate” (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 5th March 1942). Brian Roy West was given an “Honorary Exhibition” from the “Cardiganshire Education Committee” for his pains (Welsh Gazette: Thursday 24th September 1942) and he went up to Cambridge where he become a “research chemist”.
Brian Roy was, a cricketer – like his father and his brother – and we find him playing for the Aberystwyth Y.M.C.A. in August 1948. He scored 89 (a “pretty good knock” as the saying goes) in a match against Penryhn (Porthcrawl Guardian: Friday 13th August 1948). He also played in a friendly between Fulbourn Hospital v. St. Giles 2nd XI in June 1950. On that occasion he was less productive, scoring only 7 runs. He seems to have been the wicket-keeper as we find him “stumping” (don’t ask) one of the opposition (Cambridge Independent Press: Friday 9th June 1950).
Brian Roy had graduated and become a “research chemist” at Cambridge by the time he met and, in 1949, married Olywn Mary Winifred Tuck. She was a “secondary-school teacher” who came from Dowlais in Merthyr Tydif, in Wales. They lived in a flat on Bateman Road in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers: 1722 – 1966) while Brian wrote up his Ph.D. thesis in chemistry; which he completed in 1950. He went on to co-author several professional papers in the 1950s. Most were along the lines of: “The Kinetics of Combination of Carbon Dioxide with Hydroxide Ions,” which was published in “Transactions of the Faraday Society” in January 1956. Brian’s interest in chemistry may have been, in part, sparked by his father’s involvement in the production of anti-gas masks during the First World War. His father wrote a couple of pamphlets on the subject at some point and Brian thoughtfully donated to the “Imperial War Museum”.
Brian joined the British/Dutch consumer goods company “Unilever” as a “research chemist” in 1954 and lived in Bromham, where that was an active member of the local cricket club, the “Bromham Nomads” (Bedfordshire Times and Independent: Friday 10th December 1954). His two children were born while they were there. He had a daughter in 1954 and a son two years later.
Brian continued to play cricket while his wife was active in the Women’s Institute (Bedford Times and Independent Friday 24th February and 10th March 1961) in the 1960s and she was a Voluntary County Organizer for the W.I. in the 1980s (Biggleswade Chronicle: 27th March 1987). The family lived on Stagsden Road and then on Neville Crescent, where it remained until at least 1986. Brian died in Bedford in 1997. Olywn stayed on there and died there in 2010. Their children are, as far as I know, both alive.
Grandfather: Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945
Grandmother: Hannah West: 1865 – 1934
Father: Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1978
Mother: Hilda Mabel West: 1895 – 1957
Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1978
Doris Mabel Pinsent: 1897 – 1898
Harold West Pinsent: 1900 – 1962
Philip James Noel Pinsent: 1921 – 2007
Brian Roy West Pinsent: 1925 – 1997
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Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000 GRO0104
Wife (GRO1478)
Married: 1957: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Wife (GRO1478):
Daughter (GRO0551)
Son (GRO1026)
Daughter (GRO1027)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0104
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Brian was the fourth and youngest surviving son of Wilfred Pinsent by his wife Louie Irene (née Bassford). He was born in Leicester and grew up in a grocery store and off-license on Martin Street. He was still a “schoolboy” when the Wartime Register was compiled in 1939. Even then Leicester was at the heart of Britain’s shoe manufacturing business. He became a “shoe hand” after leaving school.
Brian married in 1957. The couple stayed on in Leicester and had a son and two daughters during the 1960s. All three have since grown up and married. Brian’s son appears to have helped found a firm of plasterers, “Cox, Pinsent & Santy Ltd.” At least he appears on a list of Directors’ compiled in 2003. He married and has at least two daughters; however, I am not aware of any sons.
Brian moved to Parkdale Road in Thurmaston, in Leicestershire in the late 1960s and he stayed on there until the early 1980s (British Telephone Directories). He died in Leicester in February 2000. I am not sure what became his wife.
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
Father: Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Mother: Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
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Birth: 1900
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1902
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0099
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
Father: Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Mother: Bessie Ada Penn: 1872 – 1964
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
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
Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Joseph James Pinsent: 1897 – 1923
Alfred Pinsent: 1902 – 1977
James Valentine Pinsent: 1908 – 1908
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Birth: 1872 (née Bessie Ada Penn)
Marriage: 1892
Spouse: Thomas Henry Pinsent
Death: 1964
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0098
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Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967 GRO0096 (Commercial Driver and Warehouseman, London, Middlesex)
1) Kathleen Croney: 1905 – 1928
Married: 1924
Children by Kathleen Croney:
Kathleen Rose Pinsent: 1924 – xxxx
2) Lilian Mary Hynes: 1895 – 1982
Married: 1930: Shoreditch, London
Children by Lilian Mary Hynes:
Daughter (GRO0486)
Bertram Pinsent: 1932 – 2003 (Married Joan Florence Cornish, Kennington Park, London, Middlesex, 1961)
Daughter (GRO0083)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0096
Bertram Horace was the youngest son of William John Pinsent by his wife, Rose Emeline (née Parsons). His father was a “market porter” at Covent Garden and, later, a “fruit and vegetable salesman.” Bertram grew up in the parish of Shoreditch, in Hackney, in London with three brothers and four sisters. He attended Goosall Street School from 1909 until early 1911; however, his family had moved to Poole Street in Hoxton (Shoreditch) by the time the census takers made their rounds that year.
Bertram’s father, William John Pinsent, died (of influenza) in 1918 but his family stayed on in Poole Street. Bertram was living there with his mother when the census takers returned in 1921. By then, he was a “grocer’s assistant” working for his brother, “W. G. Pinsent, Grocer, 93 Bridport Place.” Bertram married Kathleen Croney, the daughter of a “street vendor,” at Christ Church in Hoxton in 1924 and t hey had a daughter that year. Sadly, Kathleen died a few years later, in 1928. Bertram and his young daughter returned to #54 Poole Street to live with his mother and his brother Leonard. He married Lilian Mary Lovatt (née Hynes) in 1930. She was the widowed daughter of Benjamin William Hynes – a “master cabinet maker”. Bertram was, by then, a “commercial motor car driver.”
Lilian was around 33 three years old when they married. However, I am not aware of her bringing any children from her first marriage into the family. Bertram Horace and Lilian had one son and two daughters in the years that followed. The Electoral Registers show that the family was living on Poet’s Road in Islington in 1936, and it was still there when the England and Wales (wartime) register was compiled three years later. The Register shows that Bertram was a “driver” for a firm of “wholesale cereal merchants” and that his wife, Lilian was, predictably, committed to “domestic duties.” She had a young family to look after.
The Electoral Registers also show that Bertram Horace moved his family to Queen Margret’s Grove after the war. It was to be their home from 1945 until at least 1962. Bertram was a “paint factory foreman” when his eldest daughter married in 1948 – but back to being a “driver” when his younger daughter married in 1957. From there, he finally graduated to being a “warehouseman” – when his son Bertram married in 1961.
Bertram Horace of Isledon Rd., Poplar, in London N.7 died in November 1967 and Administration of his estate was determined to be L.545 (England and Wales National Probate Calendar). His widow, Lilian Mary (née Hynes) died in Bracknell in Berkshire in 1982. She had probably moved down there to be close to her son, Bertram, and his family.
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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Bertram Pinsent: 1932 – 2003 GRO0095 (Warehouseman)
Wife (GRO1462)
Married: 1961: London, Middlesex
Children by Wife (GRO1462):
Daughter (GRO0111)
Son (GRO0967)
Son (GRO0968)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0095
Bertram was the eldest son of Bertaram Horace Pinsent by his wife Lilian Mary (née Hynes). He was born in Shoreditch in London in 1932 and grew up there with two sisters and a half sister. Bertram’s father was a “corn dealer’s motor driver,” when young but he later became a “warehouseman”.
Bertram was a “counter assistant” by the time he married in June 1961. They had a daughter and two sons in the years that followed. The first two were born in London and the third in Bracknell, near Reading in Berkshire where the family lived in a flat on the London Road above the “Smith and Sons,” warehouse. The firm employed Bertram as a “caretaker” and a “warehouseman.” His third son came to public attention for being a “leap-year baby” (born on 29th February in 1972). The Reading Evening Post published included a short article and family photograph documenting the happy event on Friday 10th March 1972.
The family lived in Bracknell from 1968 until at least 1979. All three of Bertram’s children married and the sons have both had sons of their own, so the family line doubtless continues. Bertram died in Berkshire in 2003. His widow may still be alive as far as I know.
Grandfather: William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918
Grandmother: Rose Emeline Parsons: 1872 – 1950
Father: Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967 ✔️
Mother: Lilian Mary Hynes: 1895 – 1982
Sister (GRO486)
Bertram Pinsent: 1932 – 2003 ✔️
Sister (GRO0083)
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Birth: 1881
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1881
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0094
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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Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009 GRO0093
Kathleen Hilda Goodwin: 1924 – 2015
Married: 1945: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Kathleen Hilda Goodwin:
Daughter (GRO0199)
Son (GRO0709)
Son (GRO0715)
Daughter (GRO0675)
Daughter (GRO0623)
Daughter (GRO1020)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0093
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Bernard Wilfred was the second eldest son of Wilfred Pinsent by his wife Louie Irene (née Bassford). He was born in Leicester and grew up in a grocery store and off-license on Martin Street. I know little about his early life; however, he had the misfortune of falling in the street and fracturing his arm at the age fourteen (Leicester Daily Mercury: Wednesday 29th March 1939). He trained to be a “construction engineer” after leaving school. He was too young to serve during the Second World War.
Bernard married Kathleen Hilda Goodwin; who was a “hosiery worker,” in Leicester in 1945 and he was an “engineer’s template maker” when his first child (a daughter) was born in 1947. Bernard and Hilda had a second child (a son) the following year and then move to Farnborough in Hampshire where Bernard was employed as an “engineer’s draughtsman.” Being Farnborough, he may well have studied aeronautical engineering. Bernard’s second son and daughter were born in 1953 (twins) and two more daughters followed; one in 1955, and one considerably later, in 1967. The children all attended Cove County School in the 1960s. Sadly, one of the girls was injured when motor-cyclist lost control, mounted the pavement and hit both her and a lamp post (Aldershot News: Friday 26th January 1968).
All of Bernard Wilfred’s children grew to adulthood. His two sons appear to have married twice – and had sons by one or other of their wives. The line should continue.
Bernard and Kathleen moved to Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, in Suffolk at some point prior to 1974; which is when their second son married for the first time. They stayed on there and their extended family seem to have married and settled in Suffolk.
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent, of Oulton, died in October 2009 (Lowestoft Journal: 16th October 2009) four days before his younger brother, Neville Pinsent died in Nottingham (Leicestershire Mercury: 17th October 2009). Kathleen lived to be ninety years old. She eventually died in Lowestoft in June 2015 (Lowestoft Journal: 12th June 2015).
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
Father: Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Mother: Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000
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