Vital Statistics
Sidney Carton Pinsent: 1891 – 1961 GRO0808 (House decorator in Romford and Chelmsford, Essex)
Ethel Ida Mann: 1895 – 1940
Married: 1915: Romford, Essex
Children by Ethel Ida Mann:
Vera Irene Pinsent: 1920 – 2003 (Married Leonard John Simonds, Romford, Essex, 1940)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0808
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Sidney was the only son of William Pinsent by his wife Lydia Florence Warren. He was born in Greenwich on the south bank of the Thames near London in 1891, and later moved to Ilford, in Essex where his father was a “baker” and “confectioner” in the 1890s.
Sidney was reported to be a “soldier” from Gorleston in Suffolk when he married Ethel Ida Mann, the daughter of a printer’s “compositor” in Romford (Essex) in July 1915. However, I have yet to locate his “First World War” army records. He settled in Romford after the war and became a “house decorator”. Ethel had a daughter, Vera, in 1920.
The family was living with Glady’s grandfather, Thomas Mann, on Marks Road when the census was taken in 1921. He was a widower living with three of this grandchildren, Sidney Pinsent, a “painter” employed by a “Mr. Crabb,” a builder in Richmond; Gladys Mann, a“shop assistant” working for “Sanders Bros.” in Romford High Street and Ida Pinsent, Sidney’s wife, who was at home looking after their eighteen month old daughter Vera Pinsent. The household also included a lodger, Frederick Taylor, who was also “painter” for “Mr. Crabb.”
Thomas Mann likely died sometime in the 1920s 0r 1930s and Sidney and Ida moved to Hillfoot Road, in Romford. He was still a “house painter” and “decorator” and she was still doing house work when the England and Wales Register was compiled in 1939. There was a third person with them at the time. The entry has been redacted but it is probably Vera. She would have been around nineteen years old and as yet unmarried.
Ethel died in the “Chelsea Hospital” in London in June 1940, five weeks before her daughter Vera Irene married a government official. Sidney continued on as a “house decorator” but he had retired by the time he died in Chelmsford in February 1961. He was buried in Havering on 1st March 1961 (U.K. Burial and Cremation Index: 1576-2014).
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
Grandmother: Elizabeth Loveys: 1817 – 1884
PARENTS
Father: William Pinsent: 1860 – 1936
Mother: Lydia Florence Warren: 1854 – 1911
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Emily Pinsent: 1850 – 1857
John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1854 – xxxx
Anne Pinsent: 1856 – 1857
Anne Pinsent: 1858 – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1860 – xxxx
Laura Emily Pinsent: 1863 – 1868
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