Tag: December 1870

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 23rd December 1870

Northam: Local Board: The fortnightly meeting of this board was held in the vestry room on Saturday, the Rev. I. H. Gosset in the chair, when Mr. J. B. Gordon moved and Mr. T. Pynsent seconded that the board consent to the application of the Bideford Gas and Coke Company for a Provisional order, which was carried by seven votes against two. …. (other business – discussion of a report on fever and other health issues during which several members left) … Mr. Adderly Wren moved as an amendment, seconded by Mr Molesworth, “That the report be sent up in the name of the committee, and not by the Board,” and on being put to the meeting it was carried, the members who went away having returned. Mr. Pynsent remarked that they had been fetched from a neighbouring pothouse in order to carry the amendment. …

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Western Times: Tuesday 20th December 1870

Northam Local Board: Saturday: The Rev. J. H. Gosset in the chair: On the motion of Mr. J. B. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Pynsent, it was resolved that the Board consent to the application of the Bideford Gas Company for a provisional order for the extension their works. The Clerk was requested to, proceed with the matter of compelling Mr. Dymond to carry his drainage into the main sewer, in accordance with the plan of the Surveyor and Mr. Gordon gave notice that unless the owner the adjacent property consented to accept £4, offered by the Board, towards the repair of Nineteen Steps, he would move the rescinding of the resolution the next meeting.

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Saturday 10th December 1870

Bideford; Education Question in Northam: Declaration of the Poll: “A parish meeting was held in the Northam Vestry Room on Friday, when the Vicar, the Rev. E. M. D. Dimond-Churchward, declared that the result of the polling in Northam and Appledore was a majority of 136 in favour the Voluntary system, the numbers being for the Voluntary system, 174; for a rate-aided School Board, 38. Mr. Pynsent moved, and the Rev. J. T. Leslie seconded, a vote of thanks to the Vicar for his praiseworthy conduct in the matter, which was carried unanimously and Mr. Pynsent hoped that those who had voted in the majority would give the system the support it deserved.

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 16th December 1870 and North Devon Journal: Thursday 15th December 1870]

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Western Times: Saturday 3rd December 1870

Bideford: Polling the Parish of Northam on the Education Question: Exciting Meeting: Northam is the only parish in the deanery of Hartland in which a difficulty has been experienced in arriving at a decision with reference to the requirements of the Education Act. The inhabitants are largely divided; party feeling, and rival creeds have, unfortunately, been brought to bear upon the question, and between a rate-aided School Board and voluntaryism there appears to be a great difference of opinion … (discussion of meeting) … Capt. Molesworth advocated the appointment of a committee to ascertain which system would be likely to work best in the interests of all parties. The Rev. T. A. Clarke and Mr. Pynsent supported the resolution in favour of a School Board, the latter contending that the voluntary system had hitherto proved a miserable failure. …. (disorganized discussion) … Both the motion and the amendment were lost, which greatly increased the excitement, and on the motion of Mr. T. Pynsent, seconded by Mr. J. B. Gordon, it was resolved that a poll be taken as to whether a School Board or the voluntary system shall be adopted., Monday being fixed for the polling in Northam, and Tuesday for the polling in Appledore. For three hours the utmost confusion and amusement prevailed, several persons present behaving themselves with singular impropriety, and the meeting was one of the excitable ever held in the parish. 

[see similar: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Saturday 3rd December 1870 and North Devon Journal: Thursday 8th December 1870 and similar Western Times; Tuesday 6th December 1870]

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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887

Western Times: Thursday 29th December 1870

Stealing Oats: Wm. Horsham, who had been locked up twelve days having been unable to procure bail, was charged with stealing from his employers, the Messrs. Pinsent of Were Barton Kingsteington, a nose bag and a quantity of oats, valued at 5s, on the 15th December. Prisoner at the former hearing pleaded “guilty;” his plea now was “not guilty of knowing what I did.” He said he was very drunk and asked his master if in the 20 years he had worked for him he ever knew anything against him before. His master confessed to having heard reports, but never till then, having caught him in the act. In consequence of his already long incarceration, he was ordered to be further locked up until six o’clock and then discharged.

[see also Western Times: Friday 30th December 1870]

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GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918
GRO0449 Hennock: James Pinsent: 1842 – 1902