Vital Statistics
Neville Pinsent: 1932 – 2009 GRO0701
Wife (GRO1476)
Married: 1954: Leicester, Leicestershire
Children by Wife (GRO1476):
Son (GRO0436)
Son (GRO0109)
Daughter (GRO0573)
Adam Pinsent: 1961 – 1979
Son (GRO0800)
Daughter (GRO2017)
Daughter (GRO2018)
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0701
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Neville (“Nev”) Pinsent was the third surviving son of Wilfred Pinsent by his wife Louie Irene (née Bassford). He was born in Leicester and grew up in a “grocery” and “off-license” on Martin Street. On leaving school, he entered the construction business as a “bricklayer” and later became a “slater and tiler”. Neville married Wife (GRO1476), a “hosiery worker,” in Leicester in 1954. They had five children (four boys and one girl) in the years that followed. The family lived on Martin Street in the 1950s and 1960s.
One of Neville’s sons, Adam Pinsent, died at the relatively young age of seventeen years. He had had a tough life. When he was two years old he lost one eye to a tumour and very nearly lost the other. His mother took him down to “St. Bartholomew’s hospital” in London to have a smaller growth removed from behind the second eye. It was a drawn-out process and Neville had to give up his job as a day-labourer on a construction site and for-go the £15 per week wage that went with it to look after himself and his other children (Leicester Evening Mail: Saturday 20th July 1960).
Neville’s other sons seem to have grown to adulthood and married and had sons of their own to carry the line forward. Neville Pinsent died in Nottingham in 2009 – four days after his elder brother Bernard Wilfred Pinsent (Leicestershire Mercury: 17th October 2009). I am not sure what happened to Wife (GRO1476).
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Walter Pinsent: 1869 – 1950
Grandmother: Clara Black: 1873 – 1949
PARENTS
Father: Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Mother: Louie Irene Bassford: 1902 – 1985
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Elizabeth Clarice Pinsent: 1894 – 1897
Charles William Pinsent: 1896 – 1918
Arthur Ernest Pinsent: 1899 – 1969
Wilfred Pinsent: 1901 – 1970
Hilda May Pinsent: 1904 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Charles William Pinsent: 1923 – 2001
Bernard Wilfred Pinsent: 1924 – 2009
George Pinsent: 1926 – 1926
John Walter Pinsent: 1930 – 1931
Brian Pinsent: 1934 – 2000
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