Vital Statistics
John William Pinson: 1912 – xxxx GRO1979
Mona Barbara Vale: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1940: Sydney, Australia
Children by Mona Barbara Vale:
Peter Leslie Pinson: 1943 – 2017 (Married Jennifer Brownlee, xxxx, xxxx)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1979
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John William Pinson was the younger son of Leslie Walter Pinson by his wife, Myra (née Crozier). He born in Glebe, in Sydney, in 1912 and spent most of his early years living on “Foucart Street” in Rozelle with his parents and an elder brother. They later moved to Chatswood. John William trained to be a “plumber” – like his father, and they probably worked together and they were living together on “Forsyth Road” in Chatswood in 1936 (Electoral Rolls).
Both of the brothers joined the “Royal Australian Air Force” during the “Second World War” (Australia, World War II, Military Service Records, 1939 – 1945: Ancestry.com). John William must have been posted close to home as he married Mona Barbara Vale, in Sydney, in 1940.
After the War, John William joined the “Department of Technical Education and N.S.W. University of Technology” as a lecturer and he taught plumbing in several suburban technical colleges (New South Wales, Australia: Public Service Lists: 1858 – 1960: Society and Employment Directories: Ancestry.com). He taught in Goulburn in 1948 and in number of other colleges in North Sydney between 1951 and 1960. The Electoral Rolls and Telephone Directories show that John William and his wife (Mona) were living with his mother and father on “Hawthorn Avenue” in Chatswood in 1954. His parents died and his brother Leslie Walter and sister-in-law Iris Mary seem to have moved in by1958.
John William and Mona had at least one son, Peter Leslie Pinson who shows up on the Electoral Rolls in 1968, after he as came of-age by 1968. He studied art in Australia and at the “Royal College of Art” in London and become a well-respected artist, teacher and mentor. He was elected president of the “Australian Watercolour Institute” in 2003 and later ran a Gallery; however, he retired to concentrate on painting in 2014. Peter married and had sons – so this family line presumably continues. Dr. Pinson was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2007 for his services to the arts community. He died in 2017.
According to his son’s obituary prepared by the “Australian Watercolour Institute” (on-line), his father “undertook a sequence of self-designed “spec-builder” projects” in Chatswood in the late 1950s and the family had at one time lived in two of them. However, John William Pinson and his wife Mona had moved to Lindfield in North Sydney by 1963 and they were still there – on “Karoo Road” in 1968. They later moved to Hornsby, on the outskirts of Sydney. John William had, presumably, retired by 1977 as they up the coast to Forester. They were still there in 1980. I do not know when they died.
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GRANDPARENTS
Grandfather: John Pinson: 1855 – 1919
Grandmother: Ellen Robinson: 1854 – 1906
PARENTS
Father: Leslie Walter Pinson: 1881 – 1954
Mother: Myra Crozier: xxxx – 1956
FATHER’S SIBLINGS (AUNTS, UNCLES)
Isabella Elizabeth Pinson: 1877 – xxxx
Ethel Esther Pinson: 1879 – 1907
Nellie Mabel Pinson: 1882 – xxxx
Edith Mary Pinson: 1885 – xxxx
John Ernest Pinson: 1889 – 1960
William John Pinson: 1891 – 1957
Daisy Bell Pinson: 1894 – xxxx
Ivy Irene Pinson: 1897 – xxxx
MALE SIBLINGS (BROTHERS)
Leslie Walter Pinson: 1905 – 1987
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