Vital Statistics
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969 GRO0079
Lily Gallifant: 1900 – 1994
Married: Leicester, Leicestershire: 1925
Children by Lily Gallifant:
Ernest Pinsent: 1926 – 2021
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0079
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Arthur Ernest Pinsent was the second son of Walter Pinsent by his wife Clara (née Black). He was born while his father, a “boot maker,” was living on Harrington Street. The family moved to the Western Road around 1900 and his younger brother and sister were born while his mother ran a grocery shop out of the family home “on her own account” (1901 Census Data). Arthur’s parents had moved to Martin Street by 1909 (Leicester Electoral Registers). His father was nominally still a “shoe-worker” but he also helped run the store (Kelly’s Directory: 1912, 195).
Arthur Ernest (or “Ernest” as he was commonly known) had left school and was a “shoe-hand” when called up before the Magistrates for playing football on Cottesmore Road on October 14th, 1914. They had seen him before and he was ordered to pay 3s 6d and costs (Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 31st October 1914).
Arthur’s elder brother Charles William Pinsent had signed on with the Yorks and Lancashire Regiment and survived the First World War, only to succumb to influenza in November 1918. Arthur was, presumably, too young to sign up.
Arthur Ernest was still nominally a “shoe-maker” when he married Lily Gallifant in July 1925; however he seems to have also worked in a shop as Kelly’s Directory refers to him as a “shopkeeper” at 277 Clarendon Road, in Leicester. As part of a promotion, A. E. Pinsent (along with other shops was) “giving to every purchaser of a 1/3 bottle of Farrow’s Tomato Ketchup a large 71/2 packet of Farrow’s Green Peas FREE” (Leicester Evening Mail: Thursday 29th November 1828). Arthur’s younger brother, Wilfred, was, meanwhile, helping their parents out with their shop on Martin Street. Arthur and his wife Lily had one son, Ernest Pinsent, in 1926.
Arthur Ernest received a bit of shock while hospitalized in the Ashby Poor Law Institute in June 1935. Evidently, he woke up one night when “he heard a tapping on the window by his bed and looking up saw a naked foot on the window feeling about for a foothold. The man broke the window and fell back. He heard him strike a form on the ground”. A Coroner later determined that an inmate in the room above had “seemed restless,” he had sent his room-mate to get a glass of water and had climbed out their window and lost his footing. As there was no obvious reason for the behaviour, the Coroner gave an “open” verdict (Leicester Evening Mail; Tuesday 11th June 1935.
The 1939 War-time Register shows that Arthur E. Pinsent was a “master grocer” living at 277 Clarendon Road with his wife and possibly his son. There is no actual reference to their son; however, two individuals are redacted.
Arthur Ernest Pinsent of 277 Clarendon Park Road died in Leicester in 1969. His effects were valued at £7,003 (Calendar Index of Wills and Administrations: 1967 – 1995: Ancestry.com). His widow, Lily, lived on: she died in Market Harborough, in Leicestershire in December 1994. She was ninety-four years old.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1842 – 1882
Grandmother: Susannah Bagshaw: 1844 – xxxx
PARENTS
Father: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Mother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
George Henry Pinsent: 1867 – 1934
Annie Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx
Harriet Pinsent: 1875 – 1959
Ernest Alfred Pinsent: 1877 – 1902
Florence Pinsent: 1880 – 1901
Maria Pinsent: 1885 – 1943 * Illegitimate
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
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