Vital Statistics
Horace James Pinsent: 1896 – 1972 GRO0432
Elvie Selina May Quarry: 1901 – 1966
Married: 1928: Melbourne, Australia
Children by Elvie Selina May Quarry:
Son (GRO1488)
Son (GRO1609)
Charles James Pinsent: xxxx – 1929
Daughter (GRO1886)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0432
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Horace James Pinsent was the youngest of the three surviving sons of George Pinsent by his wife Elizabeth (née Norman). He was born in 1896, while his father – who had been brought up to be a shoe-worker – was a making a living as a “grocer and greengrocer” on Gas Street in Leicester. Horace and his elder siblings grew up around Sanvey Gate in the City after his father took over the management of the “Old Ten Bell’s” public house; and later around Belgrave Gate, in the Haymarket district after the family transferred to the “Wagon and Horses.” Horace attended school and then, like so many other Leicester City boys, went into the shoe trade. The Census records show that he was a “packer” in a boot and shoe factory in 1911.
Horace James joined the armed forces during the First World War. He started out in the lower ranks as a Lance Corporal; however, he was promoted Corporal (Number: #3305) and eventually rose to be Second Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment (Number: #200733).
He served in France from February 1917 and applied for his campaign medals in 1921. He used his father’s address (the “British Lion“ pubic house) in Russell Square for his correspondence. Progressing through the ranks the way he did was quite an achievement. It may, however, have made it difficult for him to adjust back to civilian life. Horace stayed on in the “army reserve” for a while, and in August 1922 was upgraded from 2nd Lt. of a Service Battalion to 2nd Lt. of a line battalion in the Leicester Regiment. This was shortly before he left the service (London Gazette: 11th August 1922).
Horace James Pinsent went out to Victoria, in Australia. He left London on the “S.S. Ormonde Orient” bound for Melbourne on 1st September 1922. He was a 25 years old “engineer” by then. He worked as an “orchard hand” for a while and then settled in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne as a “driver” in 1924 (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1901 – 1936].
Horace married Elvie Selina Quarry in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne in 27th January 1928 (Melbourne Argus: Tuesday 27th January 1953). They had three sons and one daughter in the years that followed; however, one of the sons died young. Nevertheless, two of their boys seem to have married and at least one of them had children to extend the family line. They are not followed here. The daughter’s engagement was announced in the press in November 1950 and she married the following year.
Horace and Elvie moved around a bit in the Melbourne area during the 1930s and settled in St. Kilda sometime in the 1940s. They lived on Spray Street in the 1950s. By then, Horace had graduated from being a “driver” to being a “mechanic”, and from a “mechanic” to being a (presumably motor-car) “technician”. Elvie, meanwhile, was a “clerk” – when she was not caught up in “household duties” (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1903 – 1954). Spray Street was in a low-lying area and on one occasion she “rescued a batch of scones baking in her oven when (flood) water lapped against it” (Melbourne Argus: Monday 14th July 1952).
Elive died in Prahran in December 1996, and her husband, Horace James Pinsent, who was a “retired public servant” by then, died there in April 1972 (Australian D Horace Death Index: 1787-1985: Ancestry.com)
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899
Grandmother: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
PARENTS
Father: George Pinsent: 1861 – 1932
Mother: Elizabeth Norman: 1859 – 1932
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Sarah Jane Pinsent: 1855 – 1855
Thomas Johnson Pinsent: 1856 – 1925
John Henry Pinsent: 1858 – 1861
Eliza Pinsent: 1863 – xxxx
Louisa Pinsent: 1865 – 1945
Ada Pinsent: 1867 – xxxx
John Arthur Pinsent: 1869 – 1930
Henry Pinsent: 1871 – 1939
William Horace Pinsent: 1874 – 1876
Horace Pinsent: 1879 – 1949
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
John Thomas Pinsent: 1880 – 1880
Tom Pinsent: 1883 – 1935
George William Pinsent: 1885 – 1939
Arthur Pinsent: 1889 – 1890
Horace James Pinsent: 1896 – 1972
Benjamin Charles Pinsent: 1900 – 1900
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