Vital Statistics
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951: GRO1890 (Butcher, Camdenville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
1. Rosanna Pettit: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1887: Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Rosanna Pettit:
Elizabeth Jane Pinson: 1887 – xxxx (Married Oliver Goldsmith, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1907)
James William Pinson: 1889 – 1950 (Married Minnie Calder, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1910)
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – 1945 (Married May Eliza Justina Pipe, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1912)
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1891 – 1973 (Married (1) Florence M. Jacques, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1915; (2) Esmeralda Elsie Ella Johnson, xxxx, xxxx)
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx (Married Eva May Barrett, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1914)
Stanley Roy Pinson: 1896 – 1898
Rose A. Pinson: 1903 – xxxx (Married Cyril T. V. McCabe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1928)
Doris Violet Marjory Pinson: 1905 – xxxx (Married Thomas Archibald Wes Turnbull, 1936)
Mary Agnes Pinson: 1907 – xxxx (Married Keith James, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, 1926)
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1909 – 1978 (Kathleen V. Phillips, Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, 1933)
2. Ellen Storm: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1929: Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1890
Archibald Frederick Pinson was the second child and eldest son of Richard Thomas Pinson by his wife, Mary Agnes (née McClune). He was born on “George Street” in Redfern, which was then an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1869. His parents had thirteen children over twenty-five years and all but two (both girls), survived. Archibald and at least five of his brothers’ married and four of them had children. Their lives are discussed elsewhere. Richard Thomas was a “butcher”, who moved around the suburbs of Sydney and eventually settled in Ashfield.
Archibald was called as a witness following the death of one Edwin James Lloyd, who died after a pre-arranged fight in Belmore in July 1891. He deposed that he did not see the last round of the fatal fight (somehow none of the witnesses interviewed did…!) and, although he admitted that he knew several of the people there, and that a certain Edmund Clarke had been among them, he could not see what he was doing. He heard a Mr. Kauffmann oppose the fight and, when it was over, he saw that the deceased was unconscious in his second’s arms. He claimed that he had, coincidentally, just been passing with his cart and he volunteered to take the man home. Edwin never regained consciousness. Archibald said that he did not see any money change hands (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 16th July 1891).
Archibald married Rosanna Pettit in Petersham, Sydney, in 1887 and they had ten children (six boys and four girls) in the years that followed. Of these, only one boy, Stanley Roy Pinson, died young. The rest reached maturity and married. Archibald’s marriage to Rosanna seems to have started to fail in the early 1900s; however, they were still together and having children in 1909, which is when the youngest, Thomas Henry Pinson, was born. Money seems to have been the problem. In May 1904, Archibald published the following notice in the Sydney Morning Herald (Thursday 12th May 1904): “I, ARCHIBALD PINSON, will not be responsible for any DEBTS contracted by any Person after this date without my written authority. A. Pinson, Katherine-Street, Leichhardt.”
The family was, however, still together in 1913 – the year Archibald’s father, Richard Thomas Pinson, died. “Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Pinson” dutifully invited their friends to attend Richard’s funeral at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney. Archibald, his mother, and his brothers and sisters all submitted essentially identical notices on the same day (Sydney Morning herald: Saturday 11th January 1913).
Archibald was a “butcher” who, presumably, learned the trade from his father. He was described as being a “pork butcher” when his eldest son (James William Pinson) was married in 1910. He was then living on Wellington Street in Rozelle (Balmain) with his wife Roseanna and their younger children. Their three eldest children (Elizabeth Jane Pinson, James William Pinson and Richard Thomas Pinson) had married and moved out of the family home by 1913; however, he still had his sons Archibald Frederick Pinson and William James Pinson living with him – presumably still learning the trade (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1913: Ancestry.com). The latter married Eva May Barrett in 1914.
Archibald Frederick (“junior”) married Florence M. Jacques in 1915; however, not before siring an illegitimate child – whether by Florence or someone else – I do not know. On 18th March 1914, the New South Wales Police Gazette carried a notice stating that the “Children’s Court Bench” had issued a warrant for Archibald’s arrest on a charge of disobeying a magisterial order for the support of his child (£2 10s). In the warrant, he was described as being 24 years old, five feet three or four inches high, of fair complexion and slight build. He was clean shaven, had brownish hair and blue eyes. What became of the child, I do not know. Archibald and Florence never had any legitimate children – at least that I am aware of.
When Archibald “senior’s” nephew Herbert Cecil Pinson died in July 1928 and he and his brothers placed the then conventional notices in the press advising their friends of the funeral arrangements, “Mrs. Archibald Pinson” was notably absent (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 31st July 1928). Rosanna had filed for divorce the previous year (Divorce and Matrimonial Cause Papers: NRS-13495-8-[13/13454]-1135:1927) and her petition for the dissolution of her marriage on grounds of desertion had been granted earlier in the month (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 3rd July 1928).
There is nothing to suggest that Archibald “junior’s” marriage was ever in trouble and he and his wife died in Kingsford a few years apart, so it was probably Archibald “senior” who married Ellen Storm in Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales in 1929. Interestingly, when Archibald’s mother (Mary Agnes née McClune) came to make her will in July 1930, she chose Henry Davis (a solicitor) and her third son, Richard Alfred Pinson as her executors (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 22nd July 1930). Perhaps Archibald’s divorce and remarriage had caused some dissension in the family.
Archibald’s daughters, Rose, Doris and Mary married in the 1920s and his youngest son, Thomas Henry Pinson (who was twenty years younger than his eldest) married Kathleen V. Phillips in 1933. Thomas Henry enlisted in Sydney and served with the “Royal Australian Air Force” during the “Second World War”. Again, I am not aware of any children. He died in Matraville in 1978 and Kathleen Pinson died in Macquarie in 1996.
Archibald and his second wife Ellen (née Storm) lived on “Dickson Street”, in Camdenville throughout the 1930s and probably into the early 1940s (New South Wales Electoral Rolls). However, she died in July 1942 and Archibald seems to have moved to “Linthorpe” Street in Newtown by 1943. He died in August 1951 and was buried in the “Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park” at Matraville, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia: (Australia and New Zealand: Find a Grave Index: 1800s-Current: Ancestry.com). Perhaps he had moved to be beside his youngest son in Matraville.
Archibald Frederick Pinson “junior” and his wife, Florence had no family that I know of and they are hard to trace. They both died in Kingsford, a suburb in South Sydney. She died in 1968, and he followed in 1973. Archibald may have remarried in the interim as he was living with Ella Elsie Pinson on “Haig Avenue” in Kingsford in 1972 – the year before he died. Ella Pinson “late of Daceyville” died in Sydney in June 1974. She was 72 years old, so must have been a few years younger than her late husband (Sydney Morning Herald: 1st July 1974).
Three of Archibald and Rosanna’s other sons, James William, Richard Thomas and William James married and had families of their own. They are discussed elsewhere.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Joseph Pinsent: 1819 –1881
Grandmother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880
Parents
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Mother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
Father’s Siblings (aunts, uncles)
William Pinson: 1845 – 1845
William James Pinson: 1846 – 1899
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Louisa Pinson: 1851 – 1904
Sarah Pinson: 1853 – xxxx
John Pinson: 1855 – 1919
Frederick Arthur Pinson: 1857 – 1914
Andrew C. Pinson: 1859 – 1862
Ann A. Pinson: 1861 – 1862
Hannah Amelia Pinson: 1863 – xxxx
Henry Charles A. Pinson: 1865 – 1868
Male Siblings (Brothers)
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951
William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945
Richard Alfred Pinson: 1877 – 1944
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1881 – 1938
Herbert Joseph Pinson: 1883 – 1917
Walter Pinson: 1885 – 1946
Arthur Ernest Pinson: 1889 – 1960
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