Tag: Christchurch Times

Christchurch Times: Saturday 22nd November 1890

The Loss of the Serpent: The following Official Report of the wreck of H.M.S. Serpent has been issued from the Admiralty: … (continues) … The following is a list of all the persons on board her Majesty’s ship Serpent on the date of her sailing from Devonport: … (continues) … Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines: … (list includes) … Frederick C. Pinsent …

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GRO0328 Bovey Tracey: Frederick Christopher Pinsent: 1867 – 1890

Christchurch Times: Saturday 10th August 1878

Wholesale Baby Farming: At the Birmingham Police court, Ann Pinsent, a midwife, living at Nechells, was charged with concealing the birth of is child of an unmarried woman, who had been confined at her home. Mr. Jesse Herbert (instructed by the Town Clerk) prosecuted and explained that since the prisoner was first arrested some extraordinary revelations had been made. The skeletons of no fewer than eleven infants had already been found buried in a garden adjoining the prisoner’s house. (sensation). The learned counsel added that the body of the child in question had not yet been traced, but it was known to have been born alive, and to have been seen alive some hours afterward. On the following day the child was alleged by the prisoner to have died from convulsions. The prisoner was remanded for a week.

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Christchurch Times: Saturday 16th May 1868 

Marriages: Gammon – Aldridge: On the 12th inst., at St. Marylebone, London, by the Rev. Charles Goody, Mr. R. Pinsent Gammon, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, to Mary Elliott, youngest daughter of G. O. Aldridge, Esq., of Christchurch, Hants. 

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