Category: Tiverton

Alfred James Pinsent

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Alfred James Pinsent: 1920 – 1992  (Soldier, Welder, Fitter and Heating Engineer, Wigan, Lancashire)

Jane Barlow: 1926 – 2012 
Married: 1945: Wigan, Lancashire; 1961: Ince, Lancashire.

Children by Jane Barlow: 

Margaret Ann Pinsent: 1946 – 1995
Son (GRO0498)

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0026

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Alfred James was the eldest surviving son of Thomas William Pinsent by his wife, Florence (née Perkins). He was born in London where his father was a “railway porter” who had served in the Army during the First World War. Thomas William joined the Royal Air Force as an “Aircraftsman” in 1923 and his son Alfred James and his siblings, a younger brother and two sisters, grew up in Andover, Hampshire, where his father was stationed. At some point, Thomas William left the Royal Air Force and moved his family to Thurrock in Essex, where he had become a General Post Office (GPO) “postman” by 1937.

Alfred James and his siblings came off-age during the Second World War. Alfred joined up, and he was a “sergeant” in the Royal Artillery based in Oswestry, in Shropshire, when he married Jane Barlow, a “private” in the Auxiliary Territorial Service A.T.S., in November 1945. They married in Wigan, in Lancashire, and in the years that followed had a son and daughter.  

Alfred became a “fitter and welder” and a “heating engineer” in Standish (which is part of Wigan) after the war. Sadly, their marriage did not last. It was dissolved in April 1960 but the couple tried again and remarried in Ince (a few miles away) in March 1961. The family continued to live in Standish until around 1972 (British Telephone Books: 1880 – 1984: Ancestry.com). However, the couple later settled in Paignton on the South Coast. of Devon. Presumably this was so that they might be closer to where their married son and his sons lived.  Alfred James died in Torquay in 1992 and Jane died in Newquay, in Cornwall, in 2012. Their line may well continue.

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Grandmother: Bessie Ada Penn: 1872 – 1964

PARENTS

Father: Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Mother: Florence Perkins: 1896 – 1947

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Jessie Harriet Pinsent: 1893 – 1898
Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Joseph James Pinsent: 1897 – 1923
Bessie Louisa Pinsent: 1900 – 1902
Alfred Pinsent: 1902 – 1977
James Valentine Pinsent: 1908 – 1908

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

Thomas William Pinsent: 1916 – 1923
Alfred James Pinsent: 1920 – 1992
George Albert Pinsent: 1924 – xxxx

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Alfred Frederick William Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Alfred Frederick William Pinsent: 1879 – xxxx GRO1354 (Railway track-worker, Wanganui, New Zealand)

Margaret Melville Anderson: 1871 – 1953
Married: 1905: Wanganui, New Zealand

Children by Margaret Melville Anderson:

Melville Frances Lilian Pinsent: 1906 – 1981 (Married Albert Edward Berriman, Wanganui, New Zealand, 1931)
Margaret Pinsent: 1909 – 1920

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO1354

Alfred Frederick William Pinsent was the only son of Alfred Frederick Pinsent by his wife, Frances Jane Pinsent “formerly Dunk” (Registrar’s Returns for Wanganui: December 1879). He was born at Cherry Bank, in Wanganui (now known as Whanganui) on the North Island of New Zealand. He had an elder sister named Eliza Ann Pinsent.

Like many before him, Alfred found himself up before the locat magistrates in Wanganui for “stone-throwing at Aramabo” and breaking a window. He was fined 5s and another 5s in costs, and also 3s 6d for the window (Feilding Star: 7th February 1891). He was eleven years old and he doubtless received some choice words from his father – who would have had to foot the bill.

Alfred’s father died in 1902 and he married Margaret Melville Anderson, a “domestic servant” and daughter of a “builder” a few years later, in Wanganui in October 1905. They had two daughters in the years that followed – Melville Frances in 1907 and Margaret two years later.

Alfred Frederick joined the “Railway Department” as a “surfaceman” earning 7s per day  in 1905 (New Zealand Parliamentary Papers – 1906) and was promoted to “platelayer,” with a small pay increase, (7s 6d) in 1907. He served in that capacity until at least 1911, by which time he was making 8s 6d per day (Parliamentary Papers Series I).

Unfortunately, the marriage does not seem to have lasted. In 1909, Arthur felt it necessary to inset the following in one of the local newspapers:  “Notice: I will not be responsible for any debts contracted in my name, without my written authority. A.F.W. Pinsent, Wanganui” (Wanganui Herald: 18th December 1909). Whether that helped or not is hard to tell as a “Judgment by default was given in the … undefended civil case of … Christie and Wilson v. A. F. Pinsent, £3 13s costs. 11s, solicitor’s fee 5s” in the Wanganui Magistrate’s court two years later (Wanganui Chronicle: 22nd February 1911. Nevertheless, the Electoral Rolls suggest that the family was living together – on Guyton Street – in Wanganui in 1911. However, if so, it may have been a temporary reconciliation as the Rolls go on to show that Alfred and Margaret Melville Pinsent (and her daughters) were shortly to be living apart.

The split may have been acrimonious as Alfred was formally charged with “default of maintenance” in January 1912 (New Zealand Police Gazettes: 1878 – 1945: [Ancestry.com]). The police issued a warrant for the arrest of “Alfred Frederick Pinsent, aged thirty-two, height 6ft, plate layer, native of England, heavy build, very dark complexion, dark eyes, black hair, dark moustache only; dressed in a brown-checked suit and hard black hat” for being £16 5s in arrears on his payments. That may have been what ended is employment with the Railway Department. Margaret lived on Wicksteed Street from 1914 to 1928 (or later). Then moved to Lower Hutt, near Wellington.

Margaret Melville may have been a Catholic as she sent her daughters to “St. Joseph’s Convent School” on Wicksteed Street in Wanganui. The school prize list tells us that Melville Pinsent was in the Std. III class and her sister Margaret in the Std. II class (Wanganui Chronicle: 19th December 1917). The following May, Melville won a prize for her handwriting (Wanganui Chronicle: 1st May 1918).  One of the girls “M. Pinsent” (probably Melville) received a class prize in December the following year (Wanganui Chronicle: 16th December 1919).

Sadly, tragedy then hit: “Little Margaret Pinsent, a well known and. bright child of ten years, and her sister, a couple of years older, had been spending the holidays at Turakina, and on Sunday last were having a farewell day at the river. The party was bathing when the little one got out of her depth and called for help. The elder sister went to her assistance, got her as near safety as to within a yard or two from the bank, when the exhausted child let go her hold and sank. After some considerable time, the body was recovered in some 14 feet of water but, of course, the little girl was dead” (Free Lance: 18th February 1920). The story is similarly told in the (Rangitikei Advotate and Manuwatu Argus: 10th February 1920). “Great credit was given to Melville (her sister) and Elmer Fell for their plucky efforts in attempting to rescue the deceased.” Margaret was buried in Aramoho Cemetery in Wanganui where her mother, joined her when she died in 1953 (New Zealand Cemetery Records: 1800-2000: Ancestry.com].

Melville married Albert Edward Berriman in Wanganui in 1931. The marriage was celebrated in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and written up in the press (Dominion: 25th January 1932.) Melville’s husband, Albert, died in Wanganui in 1956 and was buried in Taita Cemetery in Wellington. Melville was buried with him in 1981 (New Zealand Cemetery Records: 1800-2000: Ancestry.com].

What Alfred Frederick William Pinsent got up to after he split with his wife, I am not sure; however, he probably died in Wanganui.

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Grandparents

Grandfather: William Pinsent: 1812 – 1893 ✔️ 
Grandmother: Mary Ann Bright: 1813 – 1887

Parents

Father: Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902
Mother: Frances Jane Dunk: 1852 – 1919

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Eliza Pinsent: 1833 – 1835
William Pinsent: 1835 – 1835
Emma Pinsent: 1836 – xxxx
Maria Pinsent: 1839 – 1855
Esther Pinsent: 1842 – 1926
William Pinsent: 1847 – 1871
Eliza Pinsent: 1849 – xxxx
Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902 ✔️ 
James Primrose Pinsent: 1857 – 1860

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Alfred Frederick Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902 GRO0018 (Labourer, Wanganui, New Zealand)

Frances Jane Dunk: 1852 – 1919
Married: xxxx: xxxx, xxxx

Children by Frances Jane Dunk:

Eliza Ann Pinsent: 1877 – xxxx (Married Michael Joseph O’Keefe, xxxx, New Zealand, 1893)
Alfred Frederick William Pinsent: 1879 – xxxx (Married Margaret Melville Anderson, Wanganui, New Zealand, 1905)

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0018

Alfred Frederick Pinsent was the youngest surviving child of William Pinsent by his wife, Mary Ann Bright. He was born in London, where his father was a “wheelwright” in 1851 and grew up there with three sisters. Alfred had some education. He was admitted St. Michael’s School in Westminster, on 26th August 1861. He was nine years old at the time (London, England, School Admissions and Discharges: 1840-1911: Ancestry.com]. His level of attainment at school is not stated.

Alfred Frederick took off for New Zealand in 1868. He arrived at Lyttelton on the S.S. “Light brigade” on 27th August (Lytton Times: Thursday 27th August 1868) and was living in Christchurch on the South Island in March 1873. We know of this because, “Alfred Frederick Pinsent alias Ford” was charged in the local Quarter Sessions with committing an “indecent assault” on a Norwegian girl at the Devonshire Arms, in Peterborough Street.  He pleaded innocent, of course, but the jury, who heard the prosecutrix’s evidence behind closed doors through an interpreter determined otherwise and he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour (Lyttelton Times: Tuesday 8th April 1873; Star: Tuesday 8th April 1873).

He was back in the Magistrates Court in 1875, accuses of disturbing the peace and using threatening behaviour, and was fined 20s and costs, with the option of 48 hours imprisonment (Evening Star: 3rd March 1875). I am not sure which he chose!

On his return to civilization, Alfred appears to have moved to the North Island and settled in Wanganui, or Whanganui as it is now known, near Wellington.  Alfred Frederick seems to have “married” Frances Jane Dunk, although I can find no record of their union – either in England or New Zealand. She had been born in Kent in 1852. Her parents stayed on there, so perhaps they eloped and came out together. Married or not, they had two children, a daughter, Eliza Ann in 1877 and a son, Alfred Frederick William, in 1879.

Alfred Frederick joined the “Court Loyal Feilding” – part of the “Ancient Order of Foresters” on settling in Wanganui. Perhaps it was an attempt to regain respectability. He was a member by 1882, and he held the rank of SCR (whatever that was) the following December (Feilding Star: 30th June 1883). Unfortunately, he once again fell from grace the following month: The following notice was issued by the District Court of Wanganui: “‘THIS IS TO NOTIFY that the above named Alfred Pinsent, of Aorangi, near Feilding, in the County of Manuwatu, laborer, has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditor. The first meeting of creditors to be held at the Court House, Palmerston North, on Saturday the twenty-eighth day of July 1883, at eleven o’clock in the fore, noon” (Manawatu Standard: 17th July 1883). He was a “labourer” who was living beyond his means.

Alfred was still troubled. In January 1885, he was back in court. This time charged with “indecent exposure.” He was allowed bail on his own recognizance of £5, which he seems to have been able to provide (Feilding Star: 28th June 1885). Exposure was a charge that needed to be heard by two justices; however, as only one at the hearing the charging Constable asked the court to replace his original charge with one of “drunkenness and disorderly conduct”. Alfred gratefully pleaded guilty to this and accepted a fine of £2. Nevertheless, the powers-that-be were not impressed: “The magistrate told him that he might consider himself very fortunate in getting off so easily, as under the Police Offences Act he was liable for such conduct as that proved against him to be imprisoned for three months and had the more serious charge not been withdrawn, and had it been proved, he would have been liable to imprisonment for one year” (Feilding Star: 31st January 1885).

Alfred’s next visit to the Court House was as a witness, not as a plaintiff. It was a case in which a boy who had been beaten up by his employer – a farmer that had had too much to drink – claimed £20 damages. The boy had fled to Alfred’s house after the attach and spent the night there. “Alfred Pinsent deposed He was a laborer residing on the Makino road; remembered young Christensen coming to his house between eight and nine o’clock at night; his face was covered with caked blood, smothered with dust, a black eye, and a kick on the chin he looked as if he had been badly used; took him in to take care, of him; during the night he sang out in his sleep two or three times, “Nicols, don’t kill me;” in the morning went with the father of the boy to see Mr. Nicols; the father asked the cause of the ill-treatment; Mr. Nicols said he had it in for him for three months, but he was sorry for it; he admitted he had his knees on the boy’s chest” (Feilding Star: 25th March 1886).

E. J. Cottrell sued Alfred in the Feilding Court later that same month. This time, it was over the incomplete payment of a debt of £8 18s incurred for the purchase of a horse. “George Wilson deposed that he was an assistant to Mr. Cottrell; Mrs. and Mr.Pinsenthad never disputed owing the money, but had asked time to pay by instalments: never heard a dispute as to payment of £6. For the defense Mr. Pinsent deposed that he was a resident at Makino; had bought a horse from the plaintiff for; £6 10s in 1883; had the horse over seven month’s; returned the horse about the time he got the receipt. Mrs. Pinsent gave evidence as to certain payments; paid Mr. Cottrell £6 in actual cash, it had nothing to do with the horse transaction; the money was paid in notes, a £5 and a £1 note. Council on both sides having addressed the bench, The R.M. said the £6 had evidently been paid, Mr. Cottrell having, made a mistake: Judgment for defendant and costs” (Feilding Star: 13th May 1886). He was not always that fortunate. He lost his dispute with a Mr. Pilcher over a debt of 6s incurred for the purchase of milk and butter (Feilding Star: 14th March 1889). He also lost an unspecified case for £10 brought by Mr. Lyne (Feilding Star: 7th February 1891).

The Pinsent family finances must have improved in the years that followed as several of the local regional boards conducted road-building programmes. The local residents were encouraged to submit tenders for the work. Alfred did not win all the contracts; however, the Kiwitea Road Board accepted a Pinsent and Frederickson bid of £38 for work on “Harper’s Line” (31st March 1888 and Pincent and Klink’s tender of £68 14s 6d for “making about 80 chains of bridle track on McBeth’s Road” (Feilding Star: 24th January 1889).

The Electoral Rolls show that Alfred was listed as a “labourer” who resided at Feilding in the Manawatu-Wanganui district in 1885-1886 (New Zealand Electoral Rolls: 1853 – 1981: [Ancestry.com])

It is tempting to suggest that Alfred took to breaking windows! However, it seems much more likely that it was his son Alfred Frederick William Pinsent (aged around twelve) who was fined 5s and costs in Court at Wanganui Court for willfully throwing stones and breaking windows in Aramaho in 1891 (Feilding Star: 7th February 1891). This was probably the same “lad” who broke is leg in an accident at Tokowaru in 1896 (Wanganui Herald: 11th July 1896); however he was named “Pynsent” and – as Charles Pitt Pynsent from the HENNOCK branch of the family was also resident in the Wanganui district at the time there may other possibilities. However, none of Mr. Pynsent’s sons would qualify as being a “lad”. Alfred Pinsent “junior” grew up and married and had children of his own. His life is discussed elsewhere.

Alfred’s daughter, Eliza Ann (Lily) Pinsent passed her exams at “Fielding State School” in September 1888. She was eleven years old. She also passed them the following year when she was twelve  (Feidling Star: 4th September 1888; 27th August 1889). Eliza should have known better but she threw a stone that hit a seventeen-year old boy, Frank Churcher, in Denbigh Street in February 1889 and he ran after her and punched her in the face – drawing blood. The incident occurred in front of a justice of the peace – which was unfortunate for Frank as he wound up in court. He pleaded “guilty” and accepted a fined of 20s (Fielding Star: 19th February 1889).

Eliza had issues with at least one of her teachers and we find that her mother “Mrs. Pinsent waited on the Committee and complained of the treatment her daughter had received from one of the masters, by being beaten on the arm with a ruler. Resolved, that the head teacher’s attention be called to the complaint of Mrs. Pinsent” (Feilding Star: 16th April 1889).

In 1893, Eliza Ann married Michael Joseph O’Keefe and settled down. There is a photograph of her on-line in a “tree” compiled by Ian Maxwell (familytreedata(1)) available through Ancestry.com.

Alfred’s finances seem to have deteriorated, as Mr. A. Pinsent wrote to the Land Board “with reference to the forfeiture of his insterst in Sectoin 2, block 1, Tiriaukawa” (New Zealand Mail: 3rd August 1899.

Alfred “late of Hunterville” died in Wanganui Hospital in July 1902 (Wanganui Chronicle: 29th May 1902) and letters of administration were granted to his widow, Frances Jane Pinsent (Wanganui Herald: 2nd August 1902). The following year, she applied to the Wellington Land Board for permission “to subdivide and transfer section 11, block 2 Tiriaukawa, to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Joblin in two equal parts” (New Zealand Mail: 2nd December 1903). This was approved, which must have helped her out financially.

Jane’s son, Alfred. married a couple of years later.  It is worth noting that although the family lived in Wanganui at the same time as Charles Pitt Pynsent from the HENNOCK Branch of the family they moved in very different circles. I doubt if they acknowledged any kinship.

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967
Grandmother: Lilian Mary Hynes: 1895 – 1982

Parents

Father: William Pinsent: 1812 – 1893 ✔️ 
Mother: Mary Ann Bright: 1813 – 1887

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

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

Male Siblings (Brothers)

William Pinsent: 1835 – 1835
William Pinsent: 1847 – 1871
Eliza Pinsent: 1849 – xxxx
Alfred Frederick Pinsent: 1851 – 1902 ✔️ 
James Primrose Pinsent: 1857 – 1860

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Alfred Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Alfred Pinsent: 1902 – 1977 (Commissionaire and Receptionist, Benfleet, Essex)

Annie Henrietta Brightman: 1907 – 1999
Married: 1930: London, Middlesex

Children by Annie Henrietta Brightman: 

Daughter (GRO0113)

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0019

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Alfred Pinsent was the third and youngest surviving son of Thomas Henry Pinsent by his wife, Bessie Ada (née Penn). He was born on Norway Street, in Holborn, in London, shortly after the death of one of two (short-lived) sisters. Alfred and two of his brothers were baptized in St. Luke’s Church in Finsbury on 5th September 1905 (London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms: 1894 – 1916).  However, the family later moved to Frome Street in Shoreditch and Arthur and one of his cousins, Violet Pinsent, were admitted to the, nearby, Gopsall Street School on the same date (15th April 1907). She was the daughter of Alfred’s uncle William John Pinsent. Alfred’s schooling would have overlapped with that of another cousin, Violet’s brother Bertram Horace Pinsent. The two families clearly were well known to each other. 

Alfred’s father, Thomas Henry Pinsent, was a “packer” employed by the “Wesleyan Methodist Society” who died in 1910, while Alfred and his siblings were still young. It fell to their mother (Bessie Ada (née Penn) to bring them up by herself. The census records shows  that the family was still living on Frome Street in 1911. Alfred was too young to serve in the armed forces in 1914, and it is not clear what he did when he left school – during or shortly after the First World War. Nevertheless, he later joined the army and was a member of the Royal Corps of Signals at the Headquarters of the 2nd British Silesian Brigade, when the census was taken in 1921. 

Alfred was a “Commissionaire” living on Rheidol Terrace when he married Annie Henrietta Brightman, in St. Peter’s Church, Islington, in 1930, and he was a “Commissionaire and Office Receptionist” when the Wartime Register was compiled in 1939. Alfred had moved to “Ivydene” in Benefleet, in Essex, by then, and he was then living with his wife, Annie H. Pinsent, (who – predictably – had “unpaid domestic duties” to attend to) and his mother Bessie Pinsent (a “retired domestic”).

Alfred rejoined the army as a “signalman” in the R.C.S. (Royal Corps. of Signals) in 1944 – which was the year his only child, a daughter, was born. She married in the 1960s. I do not know what Alfred got up to after the Second World War. However, I do know that he died in Southend on Sea in Essex in 1977 and his widow, Annie Pinsent, died in Thurrock, in Essex, in 1999. 

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Grandmother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914

PARENTS

Father: Thomas Henry Pinsent: 1873 – 1910
Mother: Bessie Ada Penn: 1872 – 1964

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

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

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

Thomas William Pinsent: 1895 – 1974
Joseph James Pinsent: 1897 – 1923
James Valentine Pinsent: 1908 – 1908

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Alexander Sidney Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1884
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1911

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0016

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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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Albert Hibbard Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1878
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1878

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0014

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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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Albert Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1896
Marriage: 1920
Spouse: Linsey Jane Sarby
Death: 1980

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0012

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GrandpARENTS

Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
Grandmother: Emma Jackson: 1831 – 1903

Parents

Father: James Pinsent: 1862 – 1936
Mother: Emma Hubbard: 1863 – 1939

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES) 

Hannah Martha Pinsent: 1857 – xxxx
Georgiana Pinsent: 1859 – 1925
James Pinsent: 1862 – 1936
Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945
Fanny Pinsent: 1866 – 1940
Charlotte Ann Pinsent: 1868 – xxxx
Emily Pinsent: 1870 – xxxx
Arthur Edwin Pinsent:  1872 – 1938

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS, half-BROTHERS)

Thomas Pinsent: 1885 – 1976
James Pinsent: 1886 – 1886
Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1889

James Pinsent: 1892 – 1972
Arthur Pinsent: 1894 – 1940
Albert Pinsent: 1896 – 1980
Lawrence Pinsent: 1899 – 1991

Henry Pinsent: 1884 – xxxx
George Pinsent: 1886 – xxxx
Ernest Pinsent: 1891 – xxxx

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Adrian Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945 GRO0010 (Foreman Finisher, Shoe Trade, Leicester, Leicestershire)

Hannah West: 1865 – 1934
Married: 1887: Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire

Children by Hannah West:

Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1978 (Married Hilda Mabel West, Leicester, Leicestershire, 1916)
Doris Mabel Pinsent: 1897 – 1898
Harold West Pinsent: 1900 – 1962

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0010

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Adrian, or “George” Pinsent as he was frequently known, was the second eldest son of James Pinsent, a “shoe finisher,” by his wife, Emma (née Jackson). He was born in Loughborough in 1864 but grew up on Syston Street in the nearby City of Leicester after his parents moved there soon after he was born. Adrian had several siblings (five sisters and two brothers) all of whom reached maturity. They left school when they were about twelve years old and went to work in the surrounding factories. All but one of Adrian’s siblings, his elder brother, James Pinsent, stayed on in Leicester. James move to Nottingham.

The family was living on Syston Street when the 1881 Census was taken. Adrian was a seventeen-year-old “shoe rivetter.” He lived at home until 1887 when he married Hannah West, the Methodist daughter of a deceased “framework knitter.” They married in Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire. They had three children, two sons, Arthur Pinsent and Harold West Pinsent and a short-lived daughter, Doris Mabel Pinsent. Arthur is of particular note, as he grew up to be a well-respected Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wales, in Aberystwyth. Harold West went into the leather business, in Nottingham. Their lives are discussed elsewhere.

Adrian was a “foreman” in the shoe trade in 1901 when the Census takers caught up with his family, which was then were living on Gipsy Road, in Belgrave in Leicester. They were still living there ten years later – in 1911 – but Adrian was, interestingly, then going by the name of George Pinsent (Leicester Electoral Registers). I do not know why.

Adrian may well have been the “Bro. A. Pinsent” who attended the Leicester District “Order of Forester’s Belgrave Court” meeting called to honour the visit of the District “Chief Ranger” in February 1911 (Leicester Daily Post: Thursday 2nd February 1911). If so, he was doubtless involved in planning the order’s “78th High Court” meeting in July 1912, when “1,000 delegates will assemble at Leicester”  on the August Bank Holiday weekend (Leicester Evening Mail: Thursday 27th July 1912). I am guessing here, but it was probably his son, Arthur, who was the “A. Pinsent” who turned out for the Belgrave cricket team when they played St. Paul’s that July. He was a keen sportsman (see elsewhere). Still, this was not one of his better outings, as he was bowled out for a duck (zero) (Leicester Evening Mail: Saturday 13th July 1912).

In 1920, the firm of “T. Hatton and Co.” was set up to take over a pre-existing boot and shoe manufacturing business on Britten Street, and we find that “A. Pinsent, 17 Gipsy Lane, Leicester” was one of its first directors (Leicester Daily Post: Thursday 4th March 1920). The 1921 census tells us that he was also a “manager” of the firm. Perhaps he was a long-term employee. Adrian and Hannah were still living on Gipsy Lane until 1928 at least (Kelly’s Directory).

They moved to Gwendolen Street in Barrow-upon-Soar sometime thereafter, and that was where Hannah died in 1934. Adrian, who was by then a “retired shoe-manufacturer’s foreman”, stayed on in Gwendolen Street with a lodger, a “commercial traveler” who signed on with the “Observer Corp.” (Wartime Register: 1939).

Adrian was an old man by 1945 (81 years old) and he may well have felt that he had had enough. He committed suicide. He had “suffered for years from recurring bronchitis and myocardial degeneration. Early in December he had an enlarged prostrate and was seen by a specialist with a view to an operation. This was not possible owing to the condition of his heart. As a result, Pinsent appeared to be depressed”. He cut his own throat (Leicester Evening Mail: Tuesday 1st January 1946). The coroner’s report implies that he did so  “while the balance of his mind was temporarily disturbed.” Letters of Administration (with a Will) was granted to his son, Harold West Pinsent, a “leather manufacturer” (Calendar of Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration).

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1795 – 1860
Grandmother: Hannah Johnson: 1800 – 1871

PARENTS

Father: James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
Mother: Emma Jackson: 1831 – 1903

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES) 

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
Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

James Pinsent: 1862 – 1936
Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945 ✔️
Arthur Edwin Pinsent:  1872 – 1938

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Adam Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1961
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1979

Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0008

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GRANDPARENTS

Grandfather: Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Grandmother: Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985

PARENTS

Father: Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
Mother: Mother (GRO1476)

FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)

Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
Aunt (GRO0175)
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009
Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000
Elaine Irene Pinsent: 1939 – 1941

MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)

Brother (GRO0436)
Brother (GRO0109)
Adam Pinsent: 1961 – 1979
Brother (GRO0800)

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