Vital Statistics
James William Pinson: 1889 – 1950 GRO1946 (Box maker, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Minnie Calder: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1910: Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Minnie Calder:
James George Pinson: 1913 – 1990 (Married Hazel Doreen Thompson, Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 1939)
Ruby M. Pinson: 1911 – xxxx (Married Alfred E. Carruthers, Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia, 1933)
Leslie Andrew Pinson: 1915 – 1960 (Married Sylvia Pearl Hurst, Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia, 1946)
Gwendoline Peace Pinson: 1918 – xxxx (Married Leslie Carter Richardson, Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 1944)
Joyce Violet Pinson: 1921 – xxxx (Married William Wilfred Robinson, Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 1943)
Oliver David Pinson: 1923 – 2005 (Married Gweneth Beattie, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1946
James William Pinson was the eldest son of Archibald Frederick Pinson by his first wife, Rosanna (née Pettit). He was born in Burwood in Sydney and was brought up in a household that included six boys and four girls, all but one of whom survived childhood and eventually married. His father was a “butcher”. James’s parent’s relationship deteriorated in the early 1900s; however, their divorce did not come through until 1927. By then, James and all but two of his siblings (Rose and Thomas Henry Pinson) had married and left home.
James was a “tram guard” when he married Minnie Calder in St. Thomas Parish, Rozelle (Balmain) in 1910. Minnie was underage at the time and her mother gave her consent to the marriage as her father had already died. James and Minnie had six children over the next fifteen years, three boys and three girls . The couple were living on “Chard Road” in Greendale when their first child James George Pinson arrived in 1913.
James enlisted for service in the “Australian Imperial Force” in 1915 and his “Attestation” papers tell us that he was 5 feet 3 ½ inches tall, weighed 117 pounds and had a chest measurement of 34 ½ inches. He had a fair complexion, blue eyes and fair hair. He was a “box maker” who belonged to the Church of England. Private James Pinson left his wife Minnie and their three children at home on “Western Road” in Balmain when he went off to war.
Private James Pinson [#3194] joined the “7th Reinforcements, 19th Battalion” in August 1915 and was shipped out to Tel El Kebir in Egypt where the Australians were rebuilding their army after the damage inflicted by the Gallipoli Campaign. He was transferred to the “4th Battalion” and sent to fight on the Western Front. His unit disembarked in Marseilles in March 1916. While in France, he suffered intermittent bouts of sickness (laryngitis, ear infections, rheumatism etc.) and seems to have spent an inordinate amount of time in one hospital or another, or in transit between them. He was; however, at the front from 26th August to 8th November 1916 so did see action. The “Imperial Force” appears to have given up on him after a severe bout of laryngitis morphed into tuberculosis at the end of 1916. He was shipped to England in May 1917 and returned to Australia on H.M.A.T. “Ulysses” in September 1917. He arrived home in November and was discharged from the forces as medically unfit in May 1918.
James and Minnie added another three children after his return. The Electoral Rolls show that he went back to being a “box maker,” and that the family had moved to “Augusta Street”, in Mortlake by 1930. Their son James George Pinson was of age by then and he shows up at the same address as a “labourer” in 1934. Leslie Andrew Pinson joined them in the register a couple of years later. He was a “duco sprayer.” Duco was a type of thick paint. Both sons served in the “Armed Forces” during the “Second World War”.
James George Pinson married in Hazel Doreen Thompson in 1939 and Leslie Andrew Pinson married Sylvia Pearl Hurst in 1946. They had both set up on their own by 1949. James and Minnie’s daughters Gwendoline Peace and Joyce Violet were living with their parents in 1943; however, they too had married and left home by 1949. James and Minnie’s youngest son Oliver David Pinson also served in the “Australian Armed Forces” during the war. He married Gweneth Beattie. I do not know when, but it must have been either in 1949, or earlier. The lives of the three boys are discussed elsewhere.
James William died in Concord, in Sydney in January 1950, so Minnie (née Calder) was living on her own on four years later. She had moved to “Keira Road” in Chullora in Bankstown by 1958 and she could still be found there in 1977. She died sometime after that. Exactly when, I do not know.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Grandmother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
Parents
Father: Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951
Mother: Rosanna Pettit: xxxx – xxxx
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Mary Ann Matilda Pinson: 1868 – 1868
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951
Lily Amy Pinson: 1871 – 1873
William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945
Richard Alfred Pinson: 1877 – 1944
Mary Agnes Pinson: 1879 – xxxx
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1881 – 1938
Herbert Joseph Pinson: 1883 – 1917
Walter Pinson: 1885 – 1946
Pearl Elsie Pinson: 1887 – xxxx
Arthur Ernest Pinson: 1889 – 1960
Ruby May Pinson: 1891 – xxxx
Vera Maud Pinson: 1894 – xxxx
Male Siblings (Brothers)
James William Pinson: 1889 – xxxx
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – 1945
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1891 – 1973
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx
Stanley Roy Pinson: 1896 – 1898
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1909 – 1978
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