Vital Statistics
William Edwin Pinsent: 1912 – 1985 GRO0895 (Engineer’s Grinder in Automobile Industry, Croydon, Surrey, England)
Agnes Foster: 1918 – 1986
Married: 1940: Llanaber, Merionethshire
Children by Agnes Foster:
Daughter (GRO0622)
Daughter (GRO0855)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO0895
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William Edwin Pinsent was the eldest son of Albert John Pinsent by his wife Hilda Maude Brimblecombe. He was born in Newton Abbot in 1912. His father was a “clay works worker” who joined the army in the early 1900s and completed his first term of service in 1914 – shortly before the “First World War”. He reenlisted. William had two brothers but one of them died young. He also had three sisters who were later to marry. William’s mother, Hilda, died in Newton Abbot shortly after the birth of her youngest daughter and his father, Albert John, died a few years later – in 1928. What happened to his children after that, I do not know. They may have been taken in by other members of the family; however, it is worth noting that only one, the youngest stayed on in Devon. The others scattered eastward into other parts of the country.
William had moved to North Wales by the late 1930s and was living on the coast at Barmouth, in what is now known as “Snowdonia National Park”. He was the “head cellar man” at “Aston House” in Llanaber in Merionethshire when the England and Wales Register was compiled in 1939, and he was living there when he married Agnes Foster in May 1940. She was a “laundress” and the daughter of a deceased “plumber.”
The couple moved to Liverpool and had their first daughter while there, in 1942. William was an “engineer’s grinder” by then and probably involved in war-related work. According to the Electoral Rolls, he had relocated to Selsdon, in Surrey by 1945 and was presumably living there when his brother Wallace Frederick Pinsent married Audrey Ivy Beckett in Sompting (near Lancing in Sussex) in 1946. The groom’s brother “Mr. E. Pinsent” served as his “best man” (Worthing Herald: Friday 29th March 1946). Perhaps William Edwin Pinsent was known as “Edwin” within the family. There are no other candidates. Agnes may have spent the war in Liverpool; however, she moved down to to Abbey Road in Selsdon, in Surrey sometime in 1946, and the family lived there for several years.
Agnes returned to Liverpool to have her second daughter. She was living with Margaret E. Foster (her mother?) and with Mary A. Carmichael, on Lavan Street in Everton when the child was born. The birth record shows that her husband was then a “grinding engineer working on motor accessories.” William Edwin and Agnes had moved to Heathhurst Road in Sanderstead, Surrey, by 1951 (England, Electoral Registers: 1832 – 1962). From there, they had relocated back to Stanley Gardens in Sanderstead and Seldon by 1958 (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984: Ancestry.com).
William Edwin and Agnes continued to live in Stanley Gardens into the 1980s and they were probably still there when they died in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinsent: 1852 – 1917
Grandmother: Ann Paddon: 1849 – 1922
PARENTS
Father: Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Mother: Hilda Maude Brimblecombe: 1891 – 1925
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Laura Ann Pinsent: 1874 – 1940
Wallace Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
Ada Pinsent: 1880 – 1959
Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
Florence Annie Pinsent: 1885 – 1918
Lily Blanche Pinsent: 1887 – 1949
Beatrice May Pinsent: 1894 – 1894
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
William Edwin Pinsent: 1912 – 1985
Alfred John Richard Pinsent: 1914 – 1920
Wallace Frederick Pinsent: 1920 – 2004
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