Vital Statistics
George Hibbard Pinsent: 1879 – 1953 GRO0354 (Methodist Minister and Store keeper, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Amelia P. Unknown: 1883 – 1958
Married: xxxx: xxxx, xxxx
Children by Amelia P. Unknown:
Marjorie A. Pinsent: 1910 – xxxx
Roy J. Pinsent: 1912 – 1975
Clifford George Pinsent: 1916 – 2002 (Married Elizabeth King, Marwayne, Alberta, 1938)
Herbert Frederick Pinsent: 1917 – 1992 (Married Edna Gray, Edmonton, Alberta, 1940)
Albert Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0354
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George Hibbard was the fifth youngest of the surviving sons of James Pinsent the “fruit-salesman’s” six sons by Sarah (née Savage). He was born in Witchampton Street in St. Leonard’s parish in London, but grew up while living on Woodville Street in nearby Islington – where his parents ran a “greengrocers shop”. George had an education and he was a “clerk in a hardware store” by the time of the 1901 Census.
George Hibbard Pinsent came from a Wesleyan Methodist family and his older brother Thomas Henry Pinsent was employed by the “Wesleyan Methodist Society” from the 1890s until he died in 1910. George, meanwhile, decided to become a “Methodist Missionary” in Canada. He crossed the Atlantic in the “S.S. Victorian” (in steerage) and arrived in Montreal, Quebec, on 17th May 1907 (Canadian Passenger Lists: 1865-1935). He claimed he was heading for Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba; however, he carried on west and landed up in Lloydminster – which is on the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The Canadian Census for Saskatchewan taken in 1911, shows that George Hibbard Pinsent was a 31-year old “Baptist Clergyman” who was earning $600 per annum. He had married an English girl named Amelia by then and they had a baby daughter, Marjorie A. Pinsent. She had been born in Saskatchewan. Another census taken in 1916 (1916 Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) shows that George and Amelia had three children by then: Marjorie A. Pinsent (who was aged 6 years), Roy J. Pinsent (aged 4 years) and Clifford (who was one month old). George was listed as a “store manager;” however, he was, presumably still acting as a “Baptist minister”.
George and his wife had come out to Canada at around the same time but separately. I have yet to find a record of their marriage; however, on-line sources suggest Amelia was Amelia Priscilla Rawlinson, a “milliner” who had arrived in Lloydminster in around 1908 (Canadian Passenger Lists: 1865 – 1935). George and Amelia had added a third son, Herbert, by 1921 (1921 Canada Census). The latter census entry suggests that Amelia arrived in Canada in 1909, and that George was then a “general store clerk” in Lloydminster. He was earning $1,300 per annum.
By 1940, George and Amelia’s daughter Marjorie Pinsent was a “teacher” in Lindberg, Alberta (Canada Voters Lists: Ancestry.com). She probably married there; however, I have yet to find the record. Meanwhile, George Hibbard and his wife and family had moved to Marwayne in Alberta. It was not a major move as Marwayne is just outside Lloydminster. The 1940 Voters’ Lists tell us that they moved there with their sons, Roy Pinsent (a “clerk”), Clifford Pinsent (a “baker”) and Herbert Pinsent – who was also (a “clerk”). The family was still living in Marwayne in 1945 (Canadian Voters Lists: Ancestry.com).
However, Clifford had married Elizabeth (née King) in 1938 and moved out west to Courtenay, in the Comox-Alberni area of Vancouver Island. He was there by 1949 (Canada Voters Lists). The couple presumably ran a bakery there until Clifford at least 1972. Clifford died in Victoria, British Columbia in 2002. Whether he had any children or not, I do not know for sure; however, his Obituary in the “Times Colonist” newspaper mentions “grandchildren”, so presumably he did.
Clifford’s elder brother, Roy J. Pinsent served with the Canadian armed forces during the Second World War. He was a private in the “R.C.A.M.C.” (“Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.”) who, along with many others, returned to North America as part of a contingent (Canadian Draft: Misc. 74: No. 3 Canadian Repatriation Depot) that arrived in New York on 8th February 1946 (New York Passenger Lists: 1820 – 1957: Findmypast).
Roy stayed on in Marwayne after the war and was still living with his parents when his father died in 1953. The voters’ lists for that year show that Roy was a “postmaster” living with his then widowed mother (Mrs. A. P. Pinsent). She died in 1958 and was buried beside her husband (Findagrave: Canada). As far as I know, Roy Pinsent never married. He seems to have stayed on in Marwayne and “retired” from the “Post Office” in or before 1974 (Canada Voters Lists). He died the following year and was interred next his father and mother (Findagrave: Canada).
George Hibbard Pinsent’s youngest son, Herbert Frederick Pinsent married in Edmonton and had several children in the 1940s and 1950s. His life is described elsewhere.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Benjamin Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
Grandmother: Myra Burgoyne: 1815 – 1869
PARENTS
Father: James Pinsent: 1837 – 1912
Mother: Sarah Savage: 1839 – 1914
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Samuel Benjamin Pinsent: 1833 – xxxx
Joseph Pinsent: 1840 – 1841
Esther Pinsent: 1843 – xxxx
Edward Brand Pinsent: 1845 – 1846
George Henry Pinsent: 1847 – 1849
John Pinsent: 1850 – 1856
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1853 – 1853
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
Alexander Sidney Pinsent: 1884 – 1911
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