Vital Statistics
Frederick Henry Pinsent: 1868 – 1937 GRO0330 (Clerk, Indian Telegraph Service)
1. Florence Maud Platel: 1876 – 1896
Married: 1893: Karachi, British India
Children by Florence Maud Platel:
Hazel Ella Pinsent: 1893 – 1896
2. Constance Hilda Platel: 1883 – 1963
Married: 1906: Bombay, India
Family Branch: Devonport
Family Summary: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0330
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Frederick Henry Pinsent was the third of George Pinsent and Mary Ann Louisa (née Payne’s) five sons. He was born in Karachi – in what is now Pakistan – in April 1868. He was baptized at Holy Trinity Church there on 8th May. Frederick grew up in Ahmedabad on the coast to the north of Bombay and then moved to Bombay with his family.
I know very little about his early life; however he had become a “signaler” for the “Indo-European Telegraph” by the time he married Florence Maud Platel, in Karachi in 1893. They had a daughter, Hazel Ella Pinsent, that October; however, she died as a young child in April 1896. Sadly, her mother, Florence Maud died the following month, during childbirth. Presumably her second child died with her.
Frederick transferred From Karachi back to Bombay and married Constance Hilda Platel, in St. Patrick’s Church in April 1906. She was probably Florence’s younger sister, as they were both described as being daughters of “Frederick Platel”. Constance must have been a devout Catholic as Frederick was re-baptized at St. Patrick’s, a Roman Catholic Church, a few months before they married. They had no children that I am aware of.
Frederick was working for the “Persian Gulf Telegraph Company” in Karachi when he made a contribution to the “Belgian National Relief Fund” in November 1915 (Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore): Saturday 27th November 1915. I am sure Belgium needed all the help it could get. He retired back to England with Constance in the early 1920s. A study of British Telephone Books shows that they were living on Russell Road in London in 1924 and on Elsham Road in Kensington/Chelsea from 1925 to 1933. They then moved to Blakesley Avenue in Ealing. It is interesting to note that they returned to England at about the same time as Frederick’s brother Arthur Edwin and his wife, Annie Louisa (née Brennan). Presumably that was not a coincidence.
Frederick died in Brentford, in Essex, November 1937 leaving an estate, valued at £225. It passed to his widow who stayed on in Blakesley Avenue and died there, in July 1963. Her estate was valued at £378.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Charles Pinsent: 1812 -1863
Grandmother: Mary Fullick: 1812 – 1852
Parents
Father: George Pinsent: 1840 – 1875
Mother: Mary Ann Louisa Payne: xxxx – xxxx
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Mary Ann Elizabeth Pinsent: 1833 – 1868
Thomas Pinsent: 1836 – 1838
Charles Pinsent: 1837 – 1862
George Pinsent: 1840 – 1875
Amelia Pinsent: 1842 – 1901
Alice Pinsent: 1844 – xxxx
Eliza Pinsent: 1846 – 1847
Alfred Pinsent: 1848 – 1919
Henry James Pinsent: 1850 – 1853
Frederick Pinsent: 1852 – 1929
Georgiana Caroline Pinsent: 1854 – xxxx
Eliza Marian Pinsent: 1856 – 1857
Male Siblings (Brothers)
George Augustus Pinsent: 1866 – 1921
Charles Alfred Pinsent: 1866 – 1914
Frederick Henry Pinsent: 1868 – 1937
Arthur Edwin Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
Harold Edmund Pinsent: 1872 – 1872
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