Vital Statistics
Stanley Arthur Pinsent: 1903 – 1985 GRO0813 (Construction business)
Evelyn Hilda Lawrence: 1904 – 1991
Married: 1926: Upper Teddington, Middlesex
Children by Evelyn Hilda Lawrence:
James Stanley Pinsent: 1928 – 1987 (Engineer; Married Judith Dorothy Plumley, 1958)
Dennis Pinsent: 1930 – 1986 (Builder; Married Rita Martha Schaub, 1955)
Hilda Winifred Pinsent: 1938 – 1977 (Married Paul Erling Dickson, 1959)
Family Branch: Devonport
Family Summary: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0813
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Stanley Arthur was the eldest of the seven children that Alfred Charles Pinsent had by his wife, Mabel Winifred (née Davis), in the early 1900s. All but one of them was born in Walthamstow, in Essex, where their parents and their grandfather, Alfred Pinsent, lived before the First World War. The family then moved to Thames Ditton, in Surrey. Stanley’s youngest sister Eva Violet Pinsent was a late addition. She was born in Thames Ditton in 1922.
Stanley’s father served in the Army during the First World War and returned to his prewar trade as a “carpenter” when he rejoined his family in Thames Ditton in 1919. Stanley followed his father into the trade and was a “carpenter” when he married Evelyn Hilda Lawrence, in Upper Teddington, in Middlesex, in 1926. They had three children, two sons, James Stanley Pinsent and Dennis Pinsent in 1928 and 1930 respectively. The family was living at #12 Queen’s Terrace, Queen’s Road in Thames Ditton the latter year (Kelly’s Directory: 1930). However it had moved to Faraday Road in West Molesey in Surrey (which is near Hampton Court) by 1938 (British Telephone Books: 1880 – 1984). That was the year their daughter, Hilda Winifred Pinsent was born.
The family was in Hampshire, living at #13 Highfield Gardens, in Aldershot, when the time the pre-War Register was compiled in 1939. He had progressed to being an “estate developer” by then, so he may have been there on business. He was obviously doing well for himself. The Register was taken to document the whereabouts and skills of the civilian population. However, it also located some servicemen and those, like Stanley, who had yet to join up. Stanley joined the “Royal Engineers” and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in September 1942 (London Gazette: 9th October 1942). According to his sister-in-law, Mary Swain (“Mollie”) Pinsent—who corresponded with my father in the 1970s—he later rose to the rank of Captain (personal communication).
As an aside, Mary once told my father told my father that Stanley claimed that he had met a “Captain Pinsent” in “Royal Army Medical Corp.” at some point during the war. However, he could not remember his name. It was probably my father, Dr. Robert John Francis Homfray Pinsent who was in the “R.A.MC.” at the time and had a similar recollection of meeting another “Captain Pinsent”, although he later thought that he must have met Captain Basil Pinsent who was serving in the “Royal Army Service Corp.” He very likely did crossed paths with Stanley.
Stanley and Evelyn Hilda Pinsent and their family had moved to “Loders”, Riverside Drive, Esher, by 1955 and it was to be their family home until 1981. Stanley and Evelyn moved to “The Leys”, Esher Road, Hensham the following (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984). Evelyn was said to have been in “ill-health” when she tripped up in Esher in 1962. She pleaded guilty to stealing some food from a super market (Surrey Advertiser: Saturday 6th October 1962).
City Directories show that Stanley and his younger brother Harold established the firms of “Pinsent, Bros, Plumbers” of #13 Ronelean Road, in Surbiton, and “Pinsent Bros Builders” of #102 Grierson Road, in Forest Hill, S.E. London shortly after the war. However, it looks as if they had merged the two to form “Pinsent, Bros. Limited, Builders & Contractors, Beaconsfield Road, Tolworth, Surbiton” by 1957. The latter firm also had premises in Queensmere Road, in Wimbledon that year. “Pinsent Bros.” evidently moved to #290 Elwell Road, Tolworth, in 1961 and it was still operating out of the same site in 1974. Mary’s correspondence with my father shows that Stanley’s son Dennis Pinsent joined him in the business and he most likely took it over after his father died, in Kingston-on-Thames, in 1985. Stanley’s widow, Evelyn Hilda Pinsent died in North Surrey, in 1991.
Stanley Arthur’s eldest son, James Stanley Pinsent married in 1958 and had four children, two boys and two girls who all grew to be adults and are probably alive today. The line probably continues.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Alfred Pinsent: 1848 – 1919
Grandmother: Matilda Churched: 1844 – 1888
PARENTS
Father: Alfred Charles Pinsent: 1877 – 1948
Mother: Mabel Winifred Davis: 1882 – 1949
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
William C. “Pinsent”: 1866 – xxxx
Mary Caroline Pinsent: 1870 – 1945
Matilda Pinsent: 1873 – 1873
Amelia Elizabeth Pinsent: 1875 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Stanley Arthur Pinsent: 1903 – 1985
Charles Alfred Pinsent: 1905 – 1961
Harold William Pinsent: 1910 – 1967
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