Vital Statistics
Lawrence Pinsent: 1899 – 1991 GRO0570 (Soldier, Electrical Engineer, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Florence Clementson Collingham: 1900 – 1985
Married: 1926: New Basford, Nottinghamshire
Children by Florence Clementson Collingham:
Mavis Aileen Pinsent: 1927 – 2004 (Married Richard Edward Arthur Bonser, 1952, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Daughter (GRO0553)
Son (GRO0526)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0570
Lawrence was the fourth and youngest son of James Pinsent by his second wife, Emma (née Hubbard). He was born on Lower Eldon Street in Nottingham in 1899 and grew up there with his three half brothers (?) Henry Pinsent, George and Ernest Pinsent, his three full brothers, James Pinsent, Arthur Pinsent and Albert Pinsent, and his younger sister Florence May Pinsent. The Census data show that James was a “shoe-finisher” in 1901 and a “grocer” in 1911.
The elder boys worked in the Nottinghamshire coalmines prior to the First World War and the eldest, James, enlisted in September 1914. He served with the “York and Lancashire Regiment” in France until repatriated with a wounded hand in 1917.
Lawrence was too young to sign up at the outbreak of the war; however, he did so when he was old enough. He joined “Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment” (Private #103584] and was later awarded the “Victory” and “British” Medals. There is no sign of his receiving the “Star Medal”, which probably means that he joined too late to see active service in over-seas (National Archives: WO 372/16]
By the time the census was taken in 1921, Lawrence had become a “fitter’s mate” employed by the “Locomotive Running Department” of the “Great Central Railway” at Annesley. He was an “electrical engineer” when he married Florence Clementson Collingham, the daughter of a fellow “engineer”, in New Basford, in Nottingham, a few years later – in 1926. They had three children, two daughters, Mavis Aileen and Daughter (GRO0553) and a son (GRO0526) who arrive late. All three have since married, so the line likely continues.
Lawrence was a “substation attention” – presumably working on the “National Electrical Grid” at the outset of the Second World War. They were living in Owthorpe Grove in Nottingham at the time. Their elder daughter, Mavis, was a schoolgirl and the war-time register (1939) shows that the family unit included his mother, Emma (née Hubbard). She died later that same year (Nottingham Journal: Friday 22nd December 1939). James and Lawrence, her two sons, were granted probate of her limited estate (Calendar of Probate and Letters of Administration).
Kelly’s Directory for Nottingham in the year 1941 show that Lawrence’s brother Albert – who was a “stoker” (at a power station ?) – was also living on Owthorpe Grove and that his sister-in-law, Mrs. Rose Pinsent, (i.e. Rose née Croft) was a “draper” on the Nottingham Road. Lawrence’s eldest half-brother Thomas’s sons – Frederick Henry Pinsent and James William Pinsent – were also living in Nottingham.
Lawrence stayed on in the Sherwood district of Nottingham during and after the war, and he seems to have been a member of a local angling club. He came up short (fish-less) at a competition held in Newark in July 1944 (Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 19th July 1944) but he was elected to the club committee later that year. His technique evidently improved as he came second in the “Baguley Cup” at Weston on Trent in 1947 (Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 13th August 1947) and L. Pincent came close to winning the “Sherwood Angers’ Shield” match in 1950. He, once again, came in second (Nottingham Evening Post: Tuesday 18th July 1950). Florence Clementson (née Collingham) died in Lincolnshire in 1985, and Lawrence moved to Liskeard in Cornwall, where he died at 92-years of age in 1991.
His brother Albert married Linsey Jane Sarby in 1920; however, I am not aware of their ever having any children. In 1950, the Nottingham Evening Post wrote an article about “Bendigo the preacher – boxer of the middle eighteen (sic) century” and asked its readers for their memories. Mr. A. Pinsent of Owthorpe Grove in Sherwood responded with anecdotes about “Bendigo mixing fisticuff with religious fervor when jeered at by the local toughs of the time” (Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 10th May 1950). Linsey Jane died in 1971, and Albert died in 1980.
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)
James Pinsent: 1892 – 1972
Arthur Pinsent: 1894 – 1940
Albert Pinsent: 1896 – 1980
Lawrence Pinsent: 1899 – 1991 ✔️
Thomas Pinsent: 1885 – 1976
James Pinsent: 1886 – 1886
Arthur Pinsent: 1888 – 1889
Henry Pinsent: 1884 – xxxx (?)
George Pinsent: 1886 – xxxx (?)
Ernest Pinsent: 1891 – xxxx (?)
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