Vital Statistics
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – 1945 GRO1956 (Tram Conductor, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
May Eliza Justina Pipe: 1886 – 1955
Married: 1912: Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
Children by May Eliza Justina Pipe:
Richard Taylor Pinson: 1912 – 1912
Stanley Mervyn Pinson: 1913 – 1954 (Married Olive M. Crowe, Manly, New South Wales, Australia, 1934)
Hazel May Pinson: xxxx – xxxx (Married Vincent Henry Smith, Manly New South Wales, 1940)
Shirley Pinson: xxxx – xxxx (Married Edward John Festin Thomas, Many New South Wales, 1967)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1956
Richard Thomas Pinson was the second son of Archibald Frederick Pinson by his wife, Rosanna (née Pettit). He was born into a family of six boys and four girls that lived in Burwood New South Wales. All but one of the children (Stanley Roy Pinson) married and four of the boys had families of their own.
Richard Thomas Pinson married May Eliza Justina Pipe, in Redfern in 1912 and they had two sons shortly thereafter; Richard Taylor Pinson was born in Rozelle (Balmain) in November 1912 and his younger brother Stanley Mervyn arrived in Leichhardt in New South Wales the following year. The Postal Directories tell us that the family was living on “Cecily Street” in Leichhardt in 1914. Richard Taylor Pinson’s baptism was recorded in the records of “St. Thomas Anglican Church” in Rozelle; however, he was probably baptized at home as the entry shows that he was “in extremis”. He must have died shortly thereafter (Sydney, Australia Anglican Parish Registers: 1814-2011: Ancestry.com)
The Electoral Rolls show that Richard Thomas became a “tram conductor” and that he was living with his wife on “Birkley Road” in Manly, New South Wales by 1930. Their son, Stanley Mervyn came of age around 1934 and in 1936 he shows up as a “tram conductor” who was still living with his parents. He must have moved out the following year, as the 1937 rolls show him living on “Francis Street”. Richard Thomas and May Eliza lived on “Birkley Road” throughout the “Second World War” and they were still there when Richard Thomas Pinson “late of the Manly Omnibus Depot” died on 30th December 1945. His funeral arrangements were reported in the press on New Year’s Day (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 1st January 1946).
May Eliza stayed on in “Birkley Street”. According to the Electoral rolls, she was there by herself in 1949; however, her son, Stanley Mervyn and her daughter Shirley Pinson seem to have joined her by 1954. Stanley was a “lines-man” – presumably for a telegraph company. May Eliza died the following year and she was buried at “St. Matthew Anglican Church” in Manley on 5th August 1955.
Stanley Mervyn married Olive M. Crowe in Manly in 1934 and she was his “next of kin” when he volunteered to serve in the “Australian Imperial Force” during the “Second World War”. He joined up in Paddington [Australia, World War II Military Records: 1939 – 1945]. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last out the war. They were divorced in 1949 (Divorce and Matrimonial Cause Case Papers: NRS-13495-20-92-3881). An on-line tree by Ashley Cranston shows that Stanley died in 1954, which must have been shortly after he joining his mother on “Birkely Road.”
One of Stanley’s sisters, Hazel May Pinson married Vincent Henry Smith in 1940; however, the other, Shirley was a “shop assistant” living on “Quinton Road” in Manly as late as 1963. The on-line tree referred to above suggests that she married a Welshman, Edward John Festin Thomas in 1967; however, I have yet to find the record.
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 – 1950
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – xxxx
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1891 – 1973
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx
Stanley Roy Pinson: 1896 – 1898
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1909 – 1978
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