Vital Statistics
Edmond Pinsent: 1692 – 1758 GRO1825 (Agricultural labourer, Lustleigh, Devon)
Mary Satterley: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1716: Lustleigh, Devon
Children by Mary Satterley:
Elizabeth Pinsent: 1717 – 1718
Richard Pinsent: 1718 – xxxx
Sarah Pinsent: 1721 – xxxx (Married Daniel Kater, Lustleigh, Devon, 1747)
Edmond Pinsent: 1724 – 1726
Joan Pinsent: 1727 – xxxx
Family Branch: Teignmouth
PinsentID: GRO1825
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Edmond Pinsent was the son of Roger Pinsent by his wife, Elizabeth (née Symons). He was born and baptized in Bovey Tracey in 1692. His father was probably a “weaver” and “agricultural labourer” who lived at “Higher Yeo” in the Manor of Wreyland. Roger seems to have been a member of its manor court jury in the early 1710s (Wreyland Documents: Cecil Torr: 1910).
Roger and Elizabeth had six children; however only two, Edmond Pinsent and his younger brother (another Roger Pinsent) can be shown to have married and had children. Edmond “of Wrayland in Bovey Tracey” married Mary Satterley in Lustleigh parish church in 1716 and his children were baptized and (and in some cases buried) there. Edmond’s father held the family tenement in “Higher Yeo” through to his death in 1720. At that point the “copyhold” (if that was what his right of tenure to the property was) probably passed to Edmond.
Edmond and Mary had a short-lived daughter in 1717. Their first son, Richard arrived the following year and another daughter, Sarah, arrived in 1721. They had a short-lived son, Edmond Pinsent, in 1724. However, he died when he was two years old. Edmond and Mary had another daughter, Joan, in 1727. Her fate is uncertain.
Sadly, only one of Edmond Pinsent “of Wrayland’s” children can be traced with any degree of certainty. His daughter Sarah married Daniel Kater or “Cater” in Lustleigh in 1747. Sarah and Daniel Cater (“yeoman” of Bovey Tracey) and three other parties – Nicholas Wrayford (a “haberdasher” in Moretonhampstead), William Causley (a “carpenter” in Lustleigh) and George Miller (a “yeoman” in Manaton) are named in a quadripartite indenture involving several parcels of land drawn up in 1767 (S. H. Neck & Co., Moretonhampstead: Devon Records Office 4930 B/T/M/89). The document states that Sarah Cater was then the “only child and heir of Edmond Pinsent, late of Bovey Tracey in the said County, yeoman, deceased, who died intestate.”
The indenture ensures that several tenements that Nicholas Wrayford held in Mortonhampstead would be transferred to him on payment of a “fine” to George Miller. Similarly, the document ensures that Daniel Cater and his wife acquired control of “the moiety and halfendale of five fields, closes or parcels of land and pasture, formerly but four fields or closes, called or known by the name or names of the Blandwill, the Furze Park, the Little Park and the Higher Downs with their appurtenances, situated in Bovey Tracey, aforesaid, formerly part or parcel of, or belonging to, a messuage or tenement called “Yeo” in Bovey Tracey, aforesaid, which said moiety of the said fields or closes formerly was in the possession of the said Edmond Pinsent, his tenant and tenants but now, and for several years last past, in the possession of the said Daniel Cater and Sarah, his wife, his or her tenant or tenants.” It also ensured that William Causley acquired control of a dwelling house and property called Pound’s Cote, in Lustleigh.
The indenture tells us that Sarah’s brother Richard and her sister Joan must both have died by 1767. I have no marriage or burial record for Richard. If he married and had a son named Richard in the 1740s, then there could be a link to the BRISTOL Branch of the family. This starts with a Richard Pinson who married Elizabeth Gregory in Lustleigh in 1775. Another Richard Pinson (his father?) witnessed the marriage. For now, the link is nothing but conjecture.
Family Tree
GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: Unknown
Grandmother: Unknown
PARENTS
Father: Roger Pinson: xxxx – 1720
Mother: Elizabeth Symons: xxxx – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
John Pinsent: 1686 – xxxx
Roger Pinsent: 1690 – 1701
Roger Pinsent: 1703 – 1783
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