Vital Statistics
James Pinsent: 1892 – 1972 GRO0452 (Soldier and Coal Miner, Nottingham)
Rose Croft: 1893 – 1985
Married: 1914: Basford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Children by Rose Croft:
Rose Pinsent: 1919 – 1988 (Married Stanley Hopewell, 1940, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Violet Pinsent: 1921 – xxxx (Married Frank Bonser, 1939, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
May Pinsent: 1923 – 2000 (Married Thomas Victor Smith, 1946)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0452
James was the eldest (surviving) son of James Pinsent and his second wife, Emma Hubbard. He was born in 1893, shortly after his father left his first wife, Emma Elizabeth Poxon, and moved in with Emma Hubbard. Although he was technically illegitimate, the 1911 Census tells us that James and Emma II had been married for 19 years and had five children – which would have included James – despite their being actually married in 1898.
James Pinsent “junior” grew up in Nottingham and likely, like most of his working-class peers, left school and joined the work force at twelve years of age. He started out as a “boot maker” and then became a “miner” in one of the nearby collieries. James married Rose Croft; the daughter of a tailor in Basford, in Nottingham, in August 1914 and joined the army almost immediately afterwards.
His “Pension” and other “Army Records” (Ancestry.com) show that he was 21 years and 10 months old when he enlisted in September 1914. He was 5 feet 5½ inches tall; “slightly underweight” at 98 (lbs); had a fair complexion, grey eyes and light brown hair. James was assigned to the York and Lancaster Regiment as a Private (#15417). He went to France with the regiment August 1915 and served in the trenches. James was promoted to “paid Lance Corporal” on 12th February 1917 – and promptly went AWOL (absent without leave). Needless to say, he was demoted back to private! In June 1917, James received a “G.S.W.” (gun-shot wound (?)) to his left hand thumb and he was repatriated to England to recuperate. He was transferred to the Veterinary Corps. depot at Woolwich “on probation” (#SE33613) in August and from there he was released to the Army Reserve as a “coal miner” at Shirehampton, in June 1918. His records state that on 31st January 1919 he was “discharged as surplus to military requirements having suffered impairment since entry into the service”. His disablement was estimated at 20% and he was awarded a payment of 22 pounds and 15 shillings on his discharge. James was awarded the “Victory” and “British Medals” (Roll RAVC/101B/13 page 663) and the “Star medal” (RAVC/1C/ page 39) for his service over-seas (National Archives WO 372/16).
After the First World War, James stayed on as a colliery worker. He had three daughters, Rose Pinsent, Violet Pinsent and May Pinsent in Nottingham in the years that followed and they all grew up and married – (Violet) shortly before, (Rose) during and (May) after the Second World War. The girls were living with their parents on the Nottingham Road, in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, when the Register was compiled in 1939. It listed James as a “coal hewer – currently incapacitated.” His daughter May Pinsent was presumably light on her feet. She was a dancer and a pupil of the Venton School. There is a photograph of her in the touring pantomime “Babes in the Wood” in the Nottingham Evening Post (Friday 3rd January 1936).
Rose Pinsent, worked as a draper in Nottingham in 1941 (Kelly’s Directory), and she probably continued to do so after the war. She died in Nottingham in December 1985 (Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 18th December 1985). Her husband James had predeceased her; he died in Basford, in 1972 (Nottingham Evening Post: Friday 29th December 1972).
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: James Pinsent: 1831 – 1902
Grandmother: Emma Jackson: 1831 – 1903
PARENTS
Father: James Pinsent: 1862 – 1936
Mother: Emma Hubbard: 1863 – 1939
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Hannah Martha Pinsent: 1857 – xxxx
Georgiana Pinsent: 1859 – 1925
James Pinsent: 1862 – 1936 ✔️
Adrian Pinsent: 1864 – 1945
Fanny Pinsent: 1866 – 1940
Charlotte Ann Pinsent: 1868 – xxxx
Emily Pinsent: 1870 – xxxx
Arthur Edwin Pinsent: 1872 – 1938
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS, half-BROTHERS)
Thomas Pinsent: 1885 – 1976
James Pinsent: 1886 – 1886
Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1889
James Pinsent: 1892 – 1972 
Arthur Pinsent: 1894 – 1940
Albert Pinsent: 1896 – 1980
Lawrence Pinsent: 1899 – 1991
Also:
Henry Pinsent: 1884 – xxxx (?)
George Pinsent: 1886 – xxxx (?)
Ernest Pinsent: 1890 – xxxx (?)
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