Vital Statistics
Albert George Pinsent: 1907 – 1976 GRO0013 (Quarryman and electrical engineer in Chudleigh, Devon)
Bessie Edith Froom: 1908 – 1988
Married: 1927: Newton Abbot, Devon
Children by Bessie Edith Froom:
Douglas George Pinsent: 1927 – 1993 (Married Joyce Hamilton, Exeter, Devon, 1957)
Daughter (GRO0147)
Audrey Edith Pinsent: 1937 – 2010 (Married Michael John Lentern, Chudlleigh, Devon, 1956)
Kenneth Edgar Pinsent: 1943 – 2019 (Married (1) Wife (GRO1521); (2) Wife (GRO1522); (3) Wife (GRO1523); (4) Wife (GRO1552))
Daughter (GRO0726)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0013
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Albert George Pinsent was the illegitimate son of Lily Blanche Pinsent, who was the daughter of John Pinsent and Ann (née Paddon). He born, at the “Newton Abbot Workhouse” on 16th July and baptized in Newton Abbot on 2nd August 1907 (Devon Social & Institutional Records). The 1911 census records show that he grew up in Chudleigh with his grandparent and his mother Lily Blanche who working nearby “in (domestic) service”. The Pinsent household also included several of his uncles and aunts and his cousin “Willie” (William Henry Pinsent) who was the illegitimate son of his aunt Ada Pinsent. William was about seven years older than George. Their grandparents appear to have treated them as extra sons. The boys both went to school in Chudleigh. They may have attended “Pynsent’s Free School” an institution founded by a rich lawyer (Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in Westminster) in 1668. Sadly, it closed in 1913 and the community needs were then met by state schools.
Albert George became a “stone quarryman” in his teens and then married Bessie Edith Froom a “domestic servant” whose father, George, was a “clay worker” in one of the local pits. He may have worked alongside Albert’s grandfather. Most of the Pinsent family were either in “domestic service” or somehow connected with the clay industry. There were both brick and pottery works. Albert and Bessie married in Newton Abbot Registry Office in June 1927. They had two sons and three daughters in the years that followed. The children grew up in Chudleigh and later married so the family line probably continues.
The Electoral Rolls show that Albert and Bessie lived on Woodway Street in Chudleigh in the early 1930s. The England and Wales Register compiled in 1939 shows that Bessie was living at “#52 Old Way”, Newton Abbot, immediately next door to her parents – Mr. George and Edith L. Froom. Her two eldest children were both “at school”. Her husband, Albert George, meanwhile, had signed up at the outset of the “Second World War” and he was a “military policeman” when his youngest son was born in 1943. He had left the army by 1946 and was a “railway employee” when his youngest daughter was born. Albert George Pinsent was designated an “electrical engineer” when his children started to marry in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Their eldest son, Douglas George Pinsent died in 1993 and his life is described elsewhere. Their younger was considerably younger than his brother and he may still living.
Albert George Pinsent died in Trafford in Cheshire in the spring of 1976. His widow, Bessie, stayed in Chudleigh. Telephone Directories show that she was there from 1980 until at least 1983. Her death was registered in Newton Abbot in April 1988.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Grandmother: Ann Paddon: 1849 – 1922
PARENTS
Father: Unknown: xxxx – xxxx
Mother: Lily Blanche Pinsent: 1887 – xxxx
Mother’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Laura Ann Pinsent: 1874 – 1940
Wallace Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
Ada Pinsent: 1880 – 1959
Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Florence Annie Pinsent: 1885 – 1918
Beatrice May Pinsent: 1894 – 1894
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