Vital Statistics
Arthur Ernest Pinson: 1889 – 1960 GRO1899 (Butcher, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Ida Harriet Dawes: xxxx – 1991
Married: 1914: Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Ida Harriet Dawes:
Arthur Alfred Pinson: 1916 – 1993
Jean Winifred Pinson: 1925 – xxxx
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1899
Arthur Ernest Pinson was the youngest son of Richard Thomas Pinson by his wife, Mary Agnes (née McClune). He was born in Burwood in Sydney in 1899 and grew up with six older brothers, four of whom (Archibald Frederick Pinson, William James Pinson, Richard Alfred Pinson and Thomas Henry Pinson married and children. He also had six sisters, four of whom married. His father was a “butcher” who moved around in the Sydney area and eventually settled in Ashfield, approximately 15 kilometres west of downtown Sidney.
Arthur was living in Ashfield when his father died in 1913 and, along with his siblings, he inserted the (by then expected) notice of funeral arrangements in the local press (Sydney Morning Herald: Saturday 11th January 1913). Arthur and his siblings also submitted “notices of remembrance” of their father’s passing for several of the years that followed (e.g. Sydney Morning Herald: Saturday 9th January 1915).
Arthur Ernest was a “butcher” who had probably been trained by his father. He married Ida Harriet Dawes, the daughter of a “manager in a pottery works” in St. Clement Church in Marrickville in July 1914 (Sydney Australia, Anglican Parish Registers: 1814-2011: Ancestry.com) and had a son, Arthur Alfred Pinson in Ashfield in 1916 and a daughter, Jean Winifred, almost ten years later. What happened to her, I do not know.
“Mr. and Mrs. A. Pinson” submitted the requisite notice of arrangements when Arthur’s brother Herbert Joseph Pinson died in 1917 (Sydney Morning Herald: Monday 6th August 1917) and it was as “Arthur and Ida Pinson” that they registered their remembrance of his death two years later (Sydney Morning Herald: Monday 4th August 1919). The couple registered their condolences on the death of one of Arthur’s brothers-in-law, Walter Dart in a similar manner in 1920 (Sydney Morning Herald: Monday 12th April 1920).
The couple were living on “Watkin Street” in Canterbury when their son was born in 1916 and they were still there when their daughter was born in 1925 (Sydney Morning Herald: Saturday 17th October 1925). By then, the extended family must have been pleased to see something positive in the papers as there had been quite a few deaths to announce over the preceding years. Sadly, they kept coming. It was the turn of Arthur’s nephew Herbert Cecil Pinson (son of Thomas Henry) in July 1928 (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 31st July 1928) and of Walter’s mother Mary Agnes Pinson in July 1930 (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 17th July 1930).
Mary Agnes’s Will is available on line; in it, she names Arthur’s elder brother Richard Alfred and her solicitor as her executors and directed them to liquidate her estate and, after making a few minor adjustments, distributed the proceeds equally amongst her ten children (New South Wales Will Books: 1800 – 1952: 169308).
The Sydney Telephone and other Directories also show that Pinson A.E. was living on “Watkins Street” (North Side, Near “Hardy Street”) in Ashfield in 1928, and the Electoral Rolls confirm that he was a “butcher” on “Watkin Street” in the early 1930s. Arthur and Ida lived there through to 1935 but then moved to “Bardwell Crescent” in Earlwood. It was to be Arthur’s last move. The Electoral rolls and the Telephone Directories both tell us that they were there from 1937 until at least 1958.
Arthur’s business premises were probably on “Moore Street” in Leichhardt in the 1940s (Sydney Commercial Directory: 1947). For the most part, Arthur seems to have kept out of trouble. However, we do find that Arthur Pinson of “Moore Street” in Leichhardt was one of fourteen butchers fined (£7 0s 0d) for over-charging in November 1947. Presumably meat was still scarce and prices still controlled.
Arthur and Ida’s son, Arthur Alfred Pinson, was an “insurance agent”, living on “Bardwell Crescent” in 1937; however, he married Gwyneth Joan Wake in The Baptist Church Hurlstone Park in November 1938 and moved out. The wedding was described in the local press. Evidently Arthur’s sister Jean was one of the bride’s attendants and Arthur’s mother and Mrs. Wake received the guests (Daily Advertiser: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales: Saturday 5th November 1938). Their life was about to be complicated by the start of the “Second World War” in 1939.
Arthur Alfred Pinson volunteered for active service. He signed on with the “C.M.F.” (“Citizen Military Force”) for service in Australia on 7th April 1942. He gave his wife, Gwyneth Joan Pinson, as his “next of kin” and his home address as “26 Belmore Road” in Punchbowl, New South Wales. Arthur’s Army Records, which are in the “Australian National Archive” and now on-line, show that he had been a “commercial traveller” before the war. He was twenty-six year old, 5 ft. 8 ½ in. tall, had blue eyes a medium complexion and brown hair. He had no distinguishing marks. He was deemed fit for service and as Private Arthur Alfred Pinson (#NX135048) was sent out to Freemantle in Western Australia where he was appointed a “Special Group III” (nursing orderly) in “4 C.C.S.” (Central Clearing Station). He was promoted to Corporal 17th December 1942.
Arthur was promoted to Sergeant in March 1943, when he transferred to the “A.I.F” (“Australian Imperial Force”). Presumably that was in recognition that he would be eligible to be sent overseas. He was assigned to “104 C.C.S.” (Central Clearing Station) and after attending several training courses was shipped to Aitape (on the north coast of New Guinea) in November 1944. The following year, he seems to have oscillated between his assigned Central Clearing Station and the “2/1 2d Amb.” (a field medical unit) with intermittent bouts of otitis (ear infection). Sergeant Pinson transferred back to New South Wales in February 1946 and was discharged the following month. Arthur’s army records show that his wife Gwyneth had three children, including a daughter born in October 1944. Who they were, I do not know.
The Electoral Roll shows that Arthur Alfred’s wife lived on “Beaumont Street” in the Campsie subdivision of Canterbury, New South Wales while her husband was based in Australia in 1943. After the war, Arthur Alfred transitioned from being a “baker” living in Bundarra, Tingha, New South Wales in 1949 to being a “radiographer” living with his wife in Roselea Flats, Wallacia, in Ingleburn, New South Wales. Radiography was likely a skill he had acquired while serving in the Army. They had moved to “Jenkins Street” in Penrith, New South Wales by 1954 and could be found on “Boorea Street” in Glenbrook, in Blaxland by 1963. By then, Gwyneth had graduated from “home duties” to “cashier”. They were still there in 1977.
Arthur’s grandfather (Ida’s father) died in 1949 and his daughter Ida Harriet Pinson (nee Dawes) and son-in-law Arthur Ernest Pinson dutifully acknowledged his passing in the press in September the following year (Sydney Morning Herald: Saturday 9th September 1950). Arthur Ernest died in Earlwood in October 1960. Ida lived on through to July 1991. Their only son, Arthur Alfred Pinson died a couple of years later – in December 1993. I am not sure when or where Gwyneth died.
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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 – xxxx
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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