Vital Statistics
Norman Arthur Pinsent: 1914 – xxxx GRO1603 (Tramway and Dockside worker, Melbourne, Australia)
Doreen May Tullo: 1917 – 1984
Married: 1938: Melbourne, Victoria
Children by Doreen May Tullo:
Daughter (GRO1612)
Family Branch: Australia
PinsentID: GRO1603
Norman Arthur Pinsent was the eldest son of Arthur Henry Pinsent by his wife Catherine Mary (née Lynch). He was born in Middle Park in South Melbourne in 1914 and grew up there with three brothers and a sister. Norman’s grandmother, Annie Edith Pinsent, was the proprietress of “Hotel Pinsent” in Wangaratta – a community northeast of Melbourne. She was frequently mentioned in the social columns of the City’s newspapers (both before and after her divorce and her second marriage to Brigadier James C. Stewart in 1925) and was well known to the “better class” of society in Melbourne in the 1920s and 1930s . Her son, Arthur Henry Pinsent and her daughter Mary Elizabeth Pinsent were also well known and her grandchildren – including Norman – occasionally came to the attention of the gossip columnists. For instance, Norman attended a dance in the Carmelite Hall, in Middle Park in October 1932 (Melbourne Table Talk: Thursday 27th October 1932). Annie Edith died in 1936 and her children and grandchildren (and her Miller relations) dutifully placed “In Memoriam” notices of remembrance in the press in the years that followed (Melbourne Argus: Wednesday 9th October 1940).
Norman’s father was a noted Middle Park cricketer into the 1920s and it is not particularly surprising that Norman played for the team. In fact, we find that N. Pinsent and A. Pinsent both played for Middle Park in a match against the “Lands Department“ in February 1934 (Melbourne Argus: Monday 26th February 1934). In this case, the “A. Pinsent” was probably Norman’s younger brother Allan Henry Pinsent. He was a good player and was selected for a “Victoria Junior Cricket Association” team that played in Perth, West Australia, over the Christmas break in 1941 (The Western Australian: Saturday 15th November 1941).
Both N. and A. Pinsent were playing for Middle Park Second XI in 1941 when it reached the final of the Premiership of the “J. J. C. A. Turf Division (Cricket)” competition in April 1941. Middle Park beat Glenhuntly by 41 runs on the first innings. “After a wonderful start by A. Pinsent and J. Ellis, who put on 90 for the first wicket, a slump occurred, six wickets falling with still 27 to get, but N. Pinsent and T. L’Anson, in a useful partnership, passed the score. Scores were Glenhuntly 160, Middle Park 201 (J. Ellis 48, A. Pinsent 45, N. Pinsent 24, R. Baird 24)” (Emerald Hill Record: Saturday 5th April 1941). That was a useful days work.
According to the Electoral Rolls, Norman Arthur Pinsent was an “assistant” (to whom is not stated) living with his parents (Arthur Henry and Catherine Mary Pinsent) on “Charnwood Crescent” in St. Kilda in 1937. He married Doreen May Tullo the following year and they moved to Prahran, another inner suburb of Melbourne, in 1939. They were still there in 1941 but the Electoral Rolls show that they had moved to Mildura, a city on the Murray River in northwest Victoria by 1942. While there, Norman was listed as an “Engineer”, although of what type is again unstated. It seems to have been a term applied to anyone who worked with machinery.
Norman enlisted in the “Australian Armed Forces” in May 1944, although in what capacity and branch I do not know (Australian World War II Nominal Roll: 1939 – 1945). He was discharged in May 1946 and settled On “Orford Street” near the Maribyrnong River in the Moonee Ponds District of Melbourne. He was said to be a “turner.” Three years later, the Electoral Rolls tell us that he was a “tramways employee” living on “The Boulevard” in Moonee Ponds. Perhaps he operated a turntable used to turn trams. Norman had kept up his interest in cricket and he played for “Victoria Tramways” against a “South Australia Tramways” team in 1953 (Adelaide News: Wednesday 11th February 1953). Norman and Doreen were still living on “The Boulevard” and he was still working for the “tramways” in Moonee Ponds in 1954; however, they had moved to “George Street” in Glenroy (another suburb in North Melbourne) by 1963. By then, he had become a “watersider” or “dock worker” (Electoral Rolls). The couple moved around quite a bit in the 1960s and 1970s.
Norman and Doreen had a daughter,who came of age in the 1960s and was living with them in Glenroy in 1968. She became a “teacher” and probably married sometime after 1977. I am not aware of all of Norman and Doreen’s children, however, they probably had at least one son who stayed behind in Moonee Ponds when they left for Glenroy. If they did, he could well have become the “butcher” who was living with his wife in Moonee Ponds in 1963 (Electoral Rolls). Doreen died in Park, Victoria in 1984. I do not know when or where Norman died.
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Grandparents
Grandfather: Joseph Henry Pinsent: 1863 – 1945
Grandmother: Annie Edith Miller: xxxx – 1936
Parents
Father: Arthur Henry Pinsent: 1886 – 1971
Mother: Catherine Mary Lynch: xxxx – 1972
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Arthur Henry Pinsent: 1886 – 1971
Mary Elizabeth Pinsent: 1889 – xxxx
Male Siblings (Brothers)
Norman Arthur Pinsent: 1914 – xxxx
Ronald Francis Pinsent: 1915 – 1983
Allan Henry Pinsent: 1917 – 2002
Arthur James Pinsent: 1921 – 2000
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