George Pinsent: 1586 – 1632 DRO0047 (Constable of Topsham)
Alice Unknown: xxxx – 1664
Married: xxxx: xxxx, xxxx
Children by Alice Unknown:
John Pinsent: 1606 – 1607
Alice Pinsent: 1609 – xxxx (Married Raimont Wistlake, Topsham, Devon, 1631)
Family Branch: Combe
PinsentID: DRO0047
George was the second and youngest surviving son of George and Julianna Pinsent of Exminster. His mother died when he was only five years old and his father remarried, so George and an elder brother (Robert – who became Rector of Cotleigh) and their two sisters (Elizabeth and Anne) were brought up by George’s second wife, Mary. There was a third son, Gilbert, however, he probably died young as I can find no further mention of him. George acquired a younger half-brother (John) and half-sister (Judith). The boys all married and moved out of the parish. George’s father appears to have been a wealthy merchant and land owner.
George married a girl named Alice (unknown) and settled in the then village and seaport of Topsham – across the River Exe estuary from Exminster. They had at least two children there in the early 1600s. They had a son John Pinsent who, sadly, died within a year, and a daughter, Alice Pinsent, who survived, and married in 1631. Her father George died a few months later.
George was Constable of Topsham in the late 1620s and, acting on a warrant he had been given “for the speedy taking up of post horses for his Majesty’s service (being then in progress in these parts) did by virtue thereof take the horse of one Jeffery Bridgman being then in the town, for which the said Bridgeman hath since arrested the same Pinsent and brought his action against him at the common law to the said Pinsent’s great charge and vexation, against which he said Pinsent hath resorted for release by petition to this board” in 1627 (Acts of the Privy Council: 1627 II 2. CHAS I.)
Privy Council responded by directing three of the local justices of the peace to investigate the matter and, if they found the horse had been taken legally, to direct Mr. Bridgman to withdraw his complaint and compensate George for his reasonable costs and charges.
A George Pinson “the elder” was buried in Topsham in May 1632. He is probably our George; However, it suggests the existence of another George about whom I know nothing. Alice, his widow paid 1s in Poll Tax in 1660 and died in 1664.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: John Pinsent: xxxx – 1575
Grandmother: Johanna Unknown: xxxx – 1570
Parents
Father: George Pinsent: xxxx – 1598
Mother: Julianna Bonfessor: xxxx – 1591
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
John Pynsent: 1532 – 1615
George Pinsent: xxxx – 1598
Thomas Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
Elizabeth Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
Hugh Pinsent: 1540 – 1626
Margaret Pinsent: 1542 – xxxx
Walter Pinsent: 1544 – xxxx
Mary Pinsent: 1546 – xxxx
Johanna Pinsent: 1549 – xxxx
Male Siblings (Brothers, Step-Brothers)
Richard Pinsent: 1571 – 1571
Gilbert Pinsent: 1577 – xxxx
Robert Pinsent: 1579 – 1631
George Pinsent: 1586 – 1632
John Pinsent: 1594 – 1654
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