Tag: Western Daily Mercury

Western Daily Mercury: Friday 1st May 1863 

Muslin Curtains: Pinsent & Co., Invite attention to their extensive Stock of Muslin Curtains laid in for the present season: These Goods are in the most elegant design, and notwithstanding the advance in Cotton, are nearly at the same prices as last year: 31, 32, 33, Market Street, Devonport. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Saturday 28th March 1863 

Newton Races: Several years ago, the parishes of Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel could boast of a good annual race meeting. Of late, however, from causes which it will be better not to mention, these races have passed into oblivion, the last meeting having been held in 1857. … (discussion of plan to reactivate races) … After a desultory conversation, a committee composed of the following gentlemen, with power to add to their number, was appointed to make the necessary arrangement, viz; Messrs. White, Pinsent, Quick, Harris, Cull, Millward, Magor, Chapell, and W. Cann. This committee will meet this evening and probably in a few days we shall be enabled to announce something more definite. 

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901 (?)

Western Daily Mercury: Friday 27th March 1863 

Highweek Vestry Meeting: This meeting was held at the Seven Stars, Newton Abbot, on Wednesday, and after nominating the present guardians – the Rev. F. S. Wall and Dr. Barham – for the guardians during the ensuing year, it was adjourned until yesterday, when the following parishioners were present. … (list includes) … J. Pinsent … 

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

Western Daily Mercury: Saturday 21st March 1863 

Millinery, Mantles etc., Pinsent and Co., respectfully announce that their Show Rooms are Now Ready with all the Leading Novelties of the Season: 31, 32, 33, Market Street, Devonport. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Thursday 19th March 1863 

Carpets, Damasks, Table Linen, Sheetings, etc.: The Largest Stock, the Newest Designs, the Lowest Prices at Pinsent and Co.’s, Market Street, Devonport. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Monday 16th March 1863

Steel Collars and Cuffs are neat, comfortable and economical wear for gentlemen’s woollen shirts and lady’s high dresses. They can be cleaned in a moment enabling the wearer to always have a faultlessly white and neat collar and wristband. Collar, by Post 22 stamps, wristbands, 34 stamps: Sold by B. May, Bedford Street, Plymouth; R. Pinsent and Co., Market Street, Devonport. 

[see also other issues on many other dates hereafter] 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

The Western Daily Mercury: Friday 12th March 1863 

Millinery, Mantles &. Pinsent and Co. respectfully announce that their ShowRooms will be ready on Saturday next, the 14th inst., with all the Leading Novelties of the Spring, 31, 32, 33 Market Street, Devonport: 11th March 1863. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Wednesday 25th February 1863 

Black and Coloured silks: Pinsent and Co. invite attention to a large stock of Black French Glaces, which they are now selling considerably below present value: also, to a choice assortment of Fancy silks, commencing at 2s 2 ½ d, which are very cheap: Wedding Favours for the Marriage of the Prince of Wales in a Great Variety, 31, 32, 33 Market Street, Devonport. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Saturday 14th February 1863 

The Nominations: The nomination of candidates for the vacant seat in the representation of the borough of Devonport and East Stonehouse took place on Wednesday morning n the large Session Hall of the Devonport Town Hall, which was crammed to excess. The witness boxes, prisoners’ bar, counsel table, and other erections and fittings except the jury boxes and the magistrates’ bench, had been removed, in order to afford the greatest amount of space of which the hall is capable. … The boxes on the Monument side, at the upper end of the hall, were occupied by the friends of the Liberal cause, limited in number by the contracted space at disposal: amongst them were … Major-General Hutchinson, Commander-in-Chief of the Western District, Colonel Nesham, Colonel Szyrma, Captain Somerville, R.N., Captain Edye, Captain Russell, the Rev. J. Stock; Messrs. R. M. Watson, J. C. Graves, W. Edye, J. Hatch, … (continues) … (includes) … R. S. Pinsent … The opposite boxes were allotted to the Conservatives, among whom were: The Hon. Capt. George Edgcumbe, Col. Russell, Commander Moorman, Commander Cragg, the Rev. Aeneas B. Hutchison … (continues) … At the extreme end of the hall, behind the bench occupied by the Mayor, the candidates and the gentlemen who took an active part in the proceedings, was a space set apart for the accommodation of the ladies, who mustered in considerable force. Amongst these were – the Mayoress (Mrs. R. J. Laity), Mrs. Hutchinson, Miss Hutchinson, Mrs. R. M. Watson, Mrs. Pinsent, Mrs. Trotter … … (long discussion and intense political debate) … … (conservatives won the vote) … … 

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GRO0119 Devonport: Catherine Agnes Ross: 1830 – 1906
GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Western Daily Mercury: Saturday 7th February 1863 

Carpets, Damasks, Table Linen, Sheetings, etc. the Largest Stock, the Newest Designs, the Lowest Prices at Pinsent and Co.’s, Market Street, Devonport 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864