Vital Statistics
Charles Pitt Pynsent: 1893 – 1975 GRO1201 (Labourer, Sydney, New South Wales)
Margaret O’Donnell: 1911 – 2006
Married: 1931: Canterbury, New South Wales
Children by Margaret O’Donnell:
Marie Theresa Pynsent: xxxx – 1995
Joseph William Pynsent: 1932 – 1987
Family Branch: Hennock
PinsentID: GRO1201
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Charles Pitt Pynsent (II) was the second to eldest son of Joseph William Pynsent by his wife Nellie (née Garland). He was born in Waverley, east of down-town Sydney in New South Wales. His father had a small dairy farm at Bondi. He grew up with three brothers and (eventually) seven sisters. In 1907, the family moved to a, presumably larger, dairy farm at Marrickville (Canterbury) south west of Sydney City Centre. Charles and his brothers worked on the farm and delivered milk as “carters”.
Charles Pitt’s father died in 1926 and Sydney’s Electoral Rolls show that in 1930 he was living with his mother and a younger brother, Thomas Ogden Pynsent (II) on Duke Street in Canterbury. Charles married Margaret (“Peggy”) O’Donnell there the following year.
The Electoral Rolls also tell us that Charles was a “milk carter” and that he was living with his wife on Chalmers Road in South Parkes, Strathfield, in 1936. Nevertheless, they seem to have found more permanent lodgings in Northcote Road, in Bankstown North, the following year and they were there until at least 1943. After the war, Charles and Margaret moved to Waterloo Road in Blaxland, Bankstown East. This was still their home in 1949. There was not much call for “carters” after the war and the Electoral Rolls tell us that Charles was now a “labourer”.
Charles Pitt and Margaret were still living on Waterloo Road in 1954. However, by then they had been joined by a Joseph William Pynsent. He was most likely a son who had been born shortly after the couple married in 1931 and had now come off-age. He was a “painter” – presumably of houses. Charles, Margaret and Joseph William were living on Jesmond Avenue, in Dulwich Hill, Parkes in 1963. Joseph William had become a “taxi-driver” by then. The three of them moved to Yanderra Street in the Condell Park suburb of Sydney a few years later -in 1968.
Charles Pitt Pynsent “aged 81 or 82, late of Campsie and Condell Park” died on 20th March 1975 (Sydney Morning Herald: 21st March 1975) and was buried among his forebears in the Catholic Mortuary at Rookwood Cemetery. His widow, Margaret, had moved to Biara Avenue in Campsie by 1980. According to the Sydney Daily Telegraph (24th May 2006): “Pynsent, Margaret (Peg) … aged 94, late of Greenacre” died on 20th May that year.
Charles Pitt and Margaret (née O’Donnell) seem to have had a daughter Marie Theresa Pynsent as well as their son Joseph William Pynsent (II). Marie Theresa married James Noonan in Sydney in 1995. Joseph William, for his part, married Lyn “Unknown”. I am not sure when or where. They seem to have had three children – a son and two daughters – who are, as far as I know, alive and well. Joseph William Pynsent, “aged 55, late of Oakdale, died on 22nd October 1987” (Sydney Morning Herald: 24th October 1987). He too was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.
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Grandparents
Grandfather: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Grandmother: Mary Bridget Fogarty: 1832 – 1875
Parents
Father: Joseph William Pynsent: 1862 – 1926
Mother: Nellie Ellen Garland: 1864 – 1933
Father’s Siblings and half-siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Thomas Ogden Pynsent: 1839 – 1864
Mary Ann Theresa Pynsent: 1856 – xxxx
Burton William Pynsent: 1856 – 1856
Elizabeth Ellen Pynsent: 1858 – 1841
Burton Michael Pynsent: 1861 – 1876
Joseph William Pynsent: 1862 – 1926 ✔️
Charles Pynsent: 1865 – 1878
Alfred Thomas Pynsent: 1869 – 1911
Male Siblings (Brothers)
Joseph Burton Pynsent: 1890 – 1968
Charles Pitt Pynsent: 1893 – 1975 ✔️
Alfred Francis Pynsent: 1896 – 1981
Thomas Ogden Pynsent: 1905 – 1980
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