Vital Statistics
Joseph Burton Pynsent: 1890 – 1968 GRO1200 (Dairyman, Sydney, New South Wales)
Ethel Maud Budd: xxxx – 1969
Married: 1917: Canterbury, New South Wales
Children by Ethel Maud Budd:
Lindsay Burton Pynsent: 1918 – 1998 (Married Joan Flood, xxxx, New South Wales, 1949)
Alfred Thomas Pynsent: 1919 – 1994 (Married Olive Victoria Davis, Bankstown, New South Wales, 1942)
George William Pynsent: 1922 – 1976 (Married Berle Irene Unknown, xxxx; Wife (GRO1870))
Family Branch: Hennock
PinsentID: GRO1200
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Joseph Burton Pynsent (II) was the eldest son of Joseph William Pynsent, a “dairyman,” by his wife, Nellie (née Garland). He was born in Bondi on the coast to the east of down-town Sydney, in New South Wales and probably had a twin sister, Elizabeth Mary Pynsent. Joseph William and Nellie had nine children in Bondi (Waverley), and two more after they moved to Marrickville (Canterbury), another suburb of Sydney, in 1907. Joseph Burton was a teenager when they moved and he was, presumably, expected to help his parents on the farm and in the dairy.
Joseph Burton, or “Burton” as he was known, was a troubled youth. In 1908, when he was eighteen years old, he ran away from home and his disappearance was reported in the Police Gazette: “Missing from his home “Warren Dairy” Illawarra Rd., Marrickville since the 23rd Ultimo – Burton Pynsent, 15 years of age, looks old for his age, short, medium build, fair complexion, brown hair, scar on top of head, dressed in a navy-blue serge suite and straw hat. Suppose to have gone to Muswellbrook: Inquiry to Joseph Pynsent:”. He was older than reported! Perhaps the police were only prepared to act when a younger boy went missing and his father lied about his age. Whether Burton returned home, or found work with another employer is unclear.
Certainly, in January 1914, he was referred to in an “Equity Court” hearing. Mr. Cunningham, who was a “milk vendor” on Northcote Street, in Canterbury, sought an injunction to “restrain for a period of six months, Denis Grey, Cyril Carpenter and “Bery” (sic) Pynsent, formerly employed by him as carters, from disclosing the names and addresses of his customers”. It seems a reasonable request, particularly as Burton’s father sold milk.
After that, Burton seems to have settled down. He married Ethel Maud Budd in Canterbury in 1917 and they had at least three sons: Lindsay Burton Pynsent born in 1918 and Alfred Thomas Pynsent in 1920, and George William Pynsent in 1922. George’s birth date comes from his Second World War Army enlistment papers. I have yet to locate his birth records. Perhaps Joseph and Ethel had other children as well …
Joseph Burton became a “dairyman” like his father and the Electoral Rolls tell us that he was a “carter” who lived on Jarrett Street, in Campsie, in Canterbury, from 1930 to 1937. Presumably he was still delivering and selling milk door to door. Burton was a fully-fledged “dairyman” by the time his son Alfred Thomas Pynsent married Olive Victoria Davis in St. Paul’s Church, Bankstown in 1942 and also a “dairyman” living on Bryant Street in Rochdale the following year. Burton and Ethel were still living there in 1949.
Burton and Ethel had moved to Smithfield Road, in St. John Park, Cabramatta by 1954. He had probably retired from the dairy business by then, as he was reported to be a “labourer”. Joseph Burton and Ethel Maud took up their final residence, on Anglo Road in Parkes, in Campsie, sometime before 1958 and it was there that Burton “aged 77, late of Campsie” died in June 1968 (Sydney Morning Herald: 27th September 1968)
Joseph Burton and Ethel’s three sons, Lindsay Burton Pynsent, Alfred Thomas Pynsent and George Pynsent were brought up in Canterbury. Their lives are described elsewhere.
Family Tree
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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