Vital Statistics
Samuel Claude Pinsent: 1904 – 1988 GRO0777 (Master Butcher, Bristol, Gloucestershire)
Florence Emily Boshier: 1901 – 1978
Married: 1926: Bristol, Gloucestershire
Children by Florence Emily Boshier:
Daughter (GRO0102)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0777
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Samuel Claude Pinsent was the third and youngest surviving son of Edwin John Pinsent by his first wife, Emily Mary (née Vowles). He was born in Bristol and he grew up in the Southville district of Bristol (i.e. south of the River Avon) with two elder brothers, Eric Henry Edwin Pinsent and Leslie Donald Pinsent and two sisters (Josephine Louisa Pinsent and Pauline Rose Pinsent.) According to the 1901 census, his father was a “wine and spirit warehouseman” and the family lived on Raleigh Road in Bedminster.
Ten years later, Samuel and his siblings (all but Eric, who was by then an “errand boy”) were attending school or in apprenticeships and they were still doing so when their mother, Emily Mary (née Vowles) died in “Bristol Royal Infirmary” in January 1912. This left Edwin John to look after several children. He seems to have moved back across the river to be closer to his own family in Westbury on Trym become a “domestic gardener” and remarried.
Samuel Claude, for his part, became a “butcher” who was living at Belle Vue Cottages in Westbury on Trym when he married Florence Emily Boshier in 1926. She was the daughter of a “general labourer.” They seem to have had one child, a daughter, who was born the following year. She married in Bristol in 1947.
The Pinsent family moved around in the Bristol area but, for the most part, stayed close to their near relations and their long standing family home on Woodbury Lane. Samuel witnessed his brother Leslie Donald’s marriage to Gertrude Martha Nichols in “Holy Trinity Church” in Westbury on Trym in December 1929. He had moved to Redland Road in Bristol by 1938 (Kelly’s Directory of Bristol and Suburbs) but this was close to where where his uncle Sidney Pinsent still lived on Woodbury Lane, and also close to Fonthill Road in Westbury on Trym where his father lived with his second wife and family.
The England and Wales wartime register compiled in 1939 shows that Samuel was, by then, a “butchery manager”. Apparently, he then lived on Burlington Road with his wife, Florence and (presumably) their teenage daughter whose details are redacted. It was less than a mile away from Redland Road.
Samuel appears to have retired and moved to Greystoke Avenue in Southmead prior to 1974. His wife, Florence Emily (née Boshier) died in Weston-super-Mere, in Somerset in the spring of 1978. However, Samuel was still living in Greystoke Avenue in 1980 (British Telephone Books). He died in Nuneaton and Bedworth in Warwickshire in 1988. Probate for an estate not exceeding £7,000 was granted to his solicitors – presumable for the benefit of his daughter (England & Wales: National Probate Calendar: Index of Wills and Administrations: 1858 – 1995).
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Grandparents
Grandfather: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
Grandmother: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926
Parents
Father: Edwin John Pinsent: 1868 – 1949
Mother: Emily Mary Vowles: 1877 – 1912
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
Louisa Pinsent: 1867 – 1936
George Pinsent: 1870 – 1890
Alfred James Pinsent: 1872 – 1873
Emilie Marie Eugenie Pinsent: 1873 – 1959
Josephine Pinsent: 1876 – 1952
Lana Florence Mary Pinsent: 1878 – 1879
Alfred Louie Pinsent: 1880 – 1944
Beatrice Rose Pinsent: 1882 – 1959
Sidney Pinsent: 1883 – 1947
Male Siblings (Brothers, Half-Brothers)
Eric Henry Edwin Pinsent: 1896 – 1959
Leslie Donald Pinsent: 1900 – 1972
Alfred Edwin Hope Pinsent: 1906 – 1907
Ronald Leslie Pinsent: 1926 – 2007
Cyril Edwin Pinsent: 1928 – 2003
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