Vital Statistics
Richard Alfred Pinson: 1877 – 1944 GRO1893 (Butcher, Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia)
Florrie Osley Davis: 1882 – 1963
Married: 1906: Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Florrie Osley Davis:
Walter Alfred Pinson: 1908 – 1998 (Married Belgian Ruth Robinson, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, 1943)
Richard Joseph Pinson: 1912 – 1998 (Married Irene Clifford, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 1942)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1893
Richard Alfred Pinson was the third son of Richard Thomas Pinson (a “butcher”) by his wife Mary Agnes McClune. He was born in Balmain (Rozelle) in 1877. Richard Alfred had twelve siblings, six boys and six girls who were born over a twenty-five year period. Two of his sisters died young and one of his brothers died unmarried; however Richard and his other siblings all married and settled in or around Sydney in New South Wales.
Richard Alfred married Florrie Osley Davis, the “daughter of Mr. Joseph Davis of Rydal Park, Castle Hill.” The honorific “Mr.” in this case presumably implies a “gentleman,” in Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Erskinville, in Sydney New South Wales on 12th September 1906. Richard’s sister Pearl Pinson was one of the bridesmaids and his brother Mr. T. Pinson (presumably Thomas Henry Pinson) served as best man. The event was described in the social columns of the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 22nd September 1906.
Richard and Florrie had two sons, Walter Alfred in 1908 and Richard Joseph in 1911. They were both baptized in St. Clement’s Anglican Church in Marrickville. They family lived on Hampden Street, in Fernhill in Marrickville. Both sons were referred to as being “grandsons“ in a memorial notice that Richard “senior” posted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10th January 1916 bemoaning the death of his father three years earlier. They were also referred to in a similar notice commemorating the death of Herbert Joseph Pinson in 1917, posted in 1919 (Sydney Daily Telegraph: Monday 4th August 1919)
The Electoral Rolls show that Richard, Florrie and their eldest son Walter Pinson were living on Northcote Street in Campsie in 1930. Richard and their then of-age son, Walter, were “butchers”. The family moved to Myrtle Street in Marrickville the following year and their second son joined them in the records as a “driver” in 1933. Whether he drove for his father or for someone else I do not know. Joseph joined his father and elder brother as a fully-fledged “butcher” in 1937. The same year, both of the brothers are also reported to be “musicians” living on Thorne Street in Wagga, Wagga, west of Sydney. How successful they were, I do not know. Richard did, however, manage to find a wife while there.
Richard Pinson “junior” volunteered to join the Army. He enlisted in Paddington, New Wales as Private #NX25308: He found time to marry Irene Clifford in Wagga Wagga in 1942. He was serving abroad when his father died in 1944 and was released from service in 1945 or 1946. He then returned to Myrtle Street to help his father in the butchery business.
Richard’s brother Walter had married Belgian Ruth (née Robinson) in 1943. Despite this, the Electoral Rolls show that Walter was nominally living on Myrtle Street in the 1940s, although his wife and young family were living elsewhere. Why that was so, I do not know. The family reconnected and was back living together by 1958.
Richard Alfred (“Joe”) was seventy years old when he died in Myrtle Street in Marrickville in August 1944. Predictably – and according to the convention of the day – his family and friends were notified of the funeral arrangements through the agency of the press (Sydney Morning Herald: Wednesday 16th August 1944). Richard was buried in the Church of England Cemetery in Rookwood, in Sydney.
Richard’s wife Florrie and her two sons Walter and Richard (the latter then “A.I.F. abroad”) and her daughters-in-law Belgian (née Robinson) and Irene (née Clifford) posted a notice of remembrance in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday 18th August 1945. Richard was still serving in the Army). The notice seems to show that Florrie’s daughters-in-law went by the nicknames “Rene” and “Belle”. Richard “senior” was intestate when he died and, what with the war, it was a few years before Florrie was granted “Letters of Administration”. They came in April 1950.
Florrie, Walter and Richard and Richard’s wife, Irene lived on Myrtle Street in 1954. For some reason Walter’s wife, Belgian (“Rene”) Pinson was living elsewhere. Perhaps she was at home with her own family. Nevertheless, they were together again by 1958. Presumably Walter felt that his brother Richard Joseph and his wife were quite capably of looking after the family business and his mother Florrie and they could head out on their own. Florrie was then getting on in years.
Florrie, the “wife of Richard and mother of Walter and Richard Pinson” was 81 years old when she died in November 1963. She was buried close to her husband in Rookwood Cemetery, in Sydney (Australia Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions). Richard Joseph and Irene stayed on in Myrtle Street in Marrickville until at least 1980. They do not seem to have had children. Irene died in December 1984 (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 14th December 1995). Richard “Dick” died in May 1998 (Sydney Morning Herald: 19th May 1998).
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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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