Vital Statistics
John Pinsent: 1826 – 1914 GRO1042 (Confectioner, New York & Farmer, Nyack, New York, U.S.A.)
Sophia Jane Fisher: 1836 – 1902
Married: 1858: New York, U.S.A.
Children by Sophia Jane Pinsent:
Mary E. Pinsent: 1859 – 1929
Louisa Pinsent: 1861 – xxxx
Jessie F. Pinsent: 1861 – 1863
John Pinsent: 1865 – xxxx
Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO1042
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John Pinsent was the younger son of John Pinsent and Mary Ann (née Todd). He was born in London, where his parents ran a “tallow chandlery” in the Goswell Road, in Clerkenwell. John would have been six years old when his parents emigrated to America, in 1832. They arrived in New York on 26th September. For some reason, they took John’s older brother, William Pinsent with them but left John and his ten-years old sister, Elizabeth Pinsent, with their mother’s family in Barningham in Yorkshire (now in County Durham).
John Pinsent “junior” was a pupil at a school in Gainford, a village in County Durham when the Census was taken in 1841 English. He was then fifteen years old. When he left school, he joined his family in New York. The United States Federal Census for 1900 shows that he took out American Citizenship in 1845 and the New York State Census taken in 1850 shows that he was a “confectioner” living with his parents and three Irish servants in the Fifteenth Ward. However, five years later, in 1855, he was living with his brother William Pinsent and his wife Clara in the 16th Ward.
John Pinsent “junior” married Sophia Jane Fisher in a Methodist Chapel in New York, in October 1858. They had at least three children, Mary E. Pinsent in 1859; Louisa Pinsent and Jessie F. Pinsent in 1861 and John Pinsent in 1865; although I have yet to locate their birth records. An entry in the New York Herald on Monday 9th Febrouary 1863 shows that Jessie F. Pinsent, of 775 Sixth Avenue, New York, died of croup.
The United States Federal Census shows that John was a “confectioner” living with his family in the 19th Ward in New York in 1870. His estate was valued at $600. The next census, taken ten years later, in 1880, shows that John and his family were living at #133 Lexington Avenue. His daughter “Lizzie” was a “schoolteacher”. Presumably, the “Mary E.” Pinsent mentioned above was Mary Elizabeth Pinsent. “Trow’s New York Directory” shows that Pinsent, John, “Candy” had been living at #904 Sixth Avenue in New York, the previous year (1879).
At some point over the next twenty years, John, Sophia and Mary left New York City and settled in Upper Nyack village, on the Atlantic coast approximately 20 miles (30 kilometres) north of Manhattan. The 1900 Census shows that John was now a “farmer” living on Green Bush Road there with his wife (named as “Sarah” in the census), her sister Susannah Fisher and his daughter Mary E. Pinsent. Why the change in career, I do not know. Sadly, the record states that two of John’s three children had already died by then. When and where his only son John Pinsent died is unknown; however, as he does not show up at age 15, in the 1880 Census, so he may have died before then.
An item in the New York Times dated 21st November 1902 notes the passing of Sophia J. Pinsent, the wife of John Pinsent at her residence at West Nyack, in New York the previous morning. She was buried at in Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, in Rockland County (U.S. Find a Grave Index: 1600s – Current). John stayed on in the area, living at #93 West Main Street in Clarkstown, Rockland County, with his unmarried daughter, Mary E. Pinsent (New York Census: 1905). Five years later, he was living “on his own means” on Green Bush Road. He still had his daughter with him. He owned a house on a mortgage. John Pinsent died in Nyack in November 1914 and he is buried with his wife in Oak Hill Cemetery. Presumably, Mary E. Pinsent never married.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Thomas Pinsent: 1754 – 1841
Grandmother: Elizabeth Pridham: 1763 – 1821
Parents
Father: John Pinsent: 1799 – 1870
Mother: Mary Ann Todd: 1799 – 1874
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Anna Thomasin Crout Pinsent: 1777 – 1799
Thomas Pinsent: 1779 – 1779
Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1789 – xxxx
Maria Pinsent: 1797 – 1864
John Pinsent: 1799 – 1870
William Pinsent: 1808 – xxxx
Charles Pinsent: 1812 – 1863
George Pinsent: 1814 – 1894
Male Siblings (Brothers)
Thomas Pinsent: 1823 – 1825
William Pinsent: 1825 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1826 – 1914
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