Bristol – Page 10 – The Pinsent Family

Walter Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1885
Marriage: 1922
Spouse: Susan Ann Boss
Death: 1946

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1897

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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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Herbert Joseph Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1883
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1917

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1896

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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

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Thomas Henry Pinson

Vital Statistics

Thomas Henry Pinson: 1881 – 1938 GRO1895 (Butcher and sausage skin maker, Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia)

Matilda Jane Booth: xxxx – 1949
Married: 1908: Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

Children by Matilda Jane Booth:

Herbert Cecil Pinson: 1908 – 1928
Thomas Richard Pinson: 1911 – xxxx
John Robert Pinson: 1913 – 1989 (Married Edna May Chignell, Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia, 1936)
Edith M. Pinson: xxxx – 1925
Elma M. Pinson: xxxx – xxxx (Married Walter Berkery, Gundagai South, New South Wales, 1939)

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1895

Thomas Henry was the fourth son of Richard Thomas Pinson by his wife, Mary Agnes (née McClune). He was born in the Sydney suburb of Canterbury in 1881 and grew up with twelve siblings who were born over a period of twenty-five years. Most survived and married, so he had no shortage of relatives. Thomas Henry’s father, Richard was a “butcher” and Thomas Henry (and several of his other sons) followed him into the trade.

Thomas Henry married Matilda Jane Booth in Petersham in 1908 and they had at least five children (three boys and two girls) in the years that followed. The Electoral Rolls show they lived on the “Canterbury Road” in Belmore, a suburb to the southwest of downtown Sydney. Thomas’s marriage to Matilda may have had a few rocky moments as Thomas felt obliged to place the following advertisement in the Sydney Morning News on 20^th August 1919: “I will not be responsible for any debts contracted in my name without my written authority after this date, 18/8/19: Thomas Henry Pinsent, Canterbury Road, Punchbowl.”

Thomas Henry and Matilda’s eldest daughter, Edith M. Pinson died while still a child in 1925, and their eldest son, Herbert Cecil Pinson died when twenty years old, in 1928. When he did so, several members of the extended Pinson family notified their relatives and friends of the funeral arrangements. He was buried in the Church of England Cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 31^st July 1928).

Thomas and Matilda had moved to “Taylor Street” in nearby Lakemba by then. The New South Wales Directory (Sands: 1928) shows that the family lived on the west side of “Taylor Street” – at the “Boulevard”. Thomas specialized in making “sausage-casings”. According to the Electoral Rolls, the elder of his remaining sons, Thomas Richard Pinson, joined him as a “butcher “ after he came off-age in around 1933 and his younger son, John Robert Pinson followed him into the business in 1935, after he too, presumably, turned twenty-one.

John Robert married Edna May Chignell in Canterbury, shortly thereafter and moved to “Haldon Street” in 1936 and nearby “Dennis Street” in 1937. The couple had a couple of sons and a daughter. His life is discussed elsewhere.

Thomas Richard, the elder of the two brothers, had moved out of the family home on “Taylor Street” by 1936, so Thomas Henry and his wife Matilda only had their daughter Elma Mary Pinson living at home that year. She shows up as a “machinist” in 1937. Thomas Henry and Matilda moved to “Remly Street” in Lakemba. Perhaps they were “down sizing.” That was where Thomas Henry died in 1938. He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery, presumably close to this son. His relatives and friends were notified of the funeral arrangements in the usual manner (Sydney Morning Herald: Wednesday 6^th July 1938).

Elma left home after marrying Walter Berkery in 1939. However, her mother, Matilda, stayed on in “Remly Street” and died there in 1949. She too was buried in Rookwood General Cemetery (Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index: 1800s-Present).

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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

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Mary Agnes Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1879
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1894

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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

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Richard Alfred Pinson

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 12^th 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 22^nd 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 10^th 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 4^th 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 16^th 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 18^th 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 14^th December 1995). Richard “Dick” died in May 1998 (Sydney Morning Herald: 19^th 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

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William James Pinson

Vital Statistics

William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945 GRO1892 Bristol (Printer and Compositor, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

Florence Isabella Field: 1874 – 1946
Married: 1901: Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia

Children by Florence Isabella Field:

Alma Isabella Mary Pinson: 1903 – 1949 (Married, (1) Reginald A. Jelfs, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 1922; (2) Eric John Dunn Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 1943)
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1905 – 1966 (Married Beryl Vernie Wilkinson, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 1931)

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1892

William James was the second eldest son of Richard Thomas Pinson, by his wife Mary Agnes (née McClune). He was born into a family of seven boys and six girls that were born in Sydney over a span of twenty-five years or so. Two of the girls died young and one of the boys died unmarried; however, all of the others married in the local area. His father was a “butcher”.

William James was born in Balmain (Rozelle). He received a good education and joined the Colonial Treasurer’s Department‘s Government Printing Office as a “compositor” in 1889. He was employed by the State Government for most of his life and was still working for the Department in 1934 (New South Wales, Australia, Public Service Lists: 1858 – 1960: Ancestry.com),

William married Miss Florence Isabella Field in St. Clement’s Church, in Marrickville in August 1901. She was described as being the granddaughter of Mr. William Jarrett of Veneta, Glebe Point – who must have been a gentleman of note in his community (Sydney Evening News: Saturday 5^th October 1901). The Electoral Rolls show that Florence was living in Campsie in 1903-1904. William and Florence had their two children (Alma Isabella Mary Pinson and Richard Thomas Pinson) while living in Sydenham, in 1903 and 1905 respectively.

Florence’s sister Blanche died in August 1910 and William and Florence duly notified their relatives and friends of the funeral arrangements through a notice placed in the Sydney Morning Herald (Tuesday 23^rd August 1910). They placed another notice when William’s father, Richard Thomas Pinson, died in Canterbury in January 1913 (Sydney Morning Herald: Saturday 11^th January 1913). William placed an “In Memoriam” notice in the same paper a year later (Sydney Daily Telegraph: Friday 9^th January 1914).

William’s brother Herbert Joseph was the next to die. When he died in August 1917, William and Florence and several other members of the extended family notified their friends of the funeral arrangements through the press (Sydney Morning Herald: Monday 6^th August 1917). William was less enthusiastic about submitting notices of memoriam for the departed than many of the other members of the extended family but Mr. and Mrs. William Pinson went on to acknowledge and notify friends about the death of his nephew, Herbert Cecil Pinson in 1928 (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 31^st July 1928) and, of course, his own mother, Mary Agnes (née McClune) in July 1930 (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 17^th July 1930).

The Electoral Rolls show that Mary Agnes Pinson “senior” was living on Queen Street in Ashfield in 1930. She was living with her son, William James, who was a “printer” and her daughter Ruby Mary. There was no sign of Florence. Mary Agnes passed over her two eldest sons and made her third son Richard Alfred her executor. Why she did so, I do not know. However, she divided her estate more or less equally between her many children.

Perhaps William and Florence had temporarily separated as the Electoral Rolls show that Florence and her son, Richard Thomas Pinson (a “warehouseman”) were living on Victoria Road in Marrickville in 1930. William James was, of course, absent. Richard Thomas married the following year and his wife Beryl Vernie (née Wilkinson) moved in with him and with his mother. Beryl was a “dress-maker”. Florence’s daughter Alma Mary Pinson was also with them in the family home in 1933. She had married Reginald Jelfs in 1922; however, he must have died young as she moved back in with her mother sometime in the 1930s. She was a “clerk”.

Richard and Beryl moved out and Florence and Alma had the Victoria Road house to themselves from 1934 onward. Florence lived there for the rest of her life. Her husband William James Pinson lived with Richard and Beryl on Edward Street in Marrickville in the late 1930s. Richard had gone into the family business and by 1943 was yet another “butcher”! His father William James lived alone on Bourke Street, in Redfern for a while; however, he seems to have moved back into the family home on Victoria Road shortly before he died in 1945. According to the Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 16^th August 1945), William James Pinson of Victoria Road, “the husband of Florence Isabella and father of Alma and Dick, aged 69 years, died on 15^th August 1945”. Florence died there the following year. The Sydney Morning Herald (Monday 8^th July 1946) tells us that Florence Isabella “relict of William and mother of Alma (Mrs. Dunn) and Dick, aged, 72 died at her Victoria Road home on 6^th July 1946.” Alma stayed on there after parents died.

Alma Mary Isabella Pinson married Eric John Dunn of Leofrene Avenue in Marrickville in St. Clement’s Church, Marrickville in 1943. It was a mistake. The couple lived in Alma’s family’s home in Victoria Road in Marrickville even after her parents died. Soon after the marriage, Alma made a will in which she left most of her estate to her husband; however he turned abusive and controlling and in 1949, near the end of her life, she replaced it with one in which she named her brother Richard Thomas Pinson as her executor and his two children (who lived next door) the principal beneficiaries of an estate valued at approximately £1,500. Unfortunately, there was a problem.

Eric, who was a railway employee (Sydney Anglican Parish Records: 1814-2011: Ancestry.com), disputed the will. He claimed that Alma was an alcoholic and thus lacked “testamentary capacity.” Predictably, there was a considerable amount of press interest when the case was heard in the Probate Court. Eric said that he was a porter at the Central Railway Station and in 1946 and 1947 he had had to get up at 3.30 a.m. to go to work – which meant that he went to bed early. His wife stayed up drinking.

He claimed that on one occasion in 1948 she nailed up the door and went on a drinking spree after which he collected up six empty brandy bottles. On another occasion, he picked up thirty-seven empty wine bottles left lying around after a week of heavy drinking. He had to cook his own Christmas dinner (The Sydney Sun: Monday 1^st May 1959)! Clearly his life was intolerable … A Sergeant Law testified that he frequently saw Alma in hotel bars and wine saloons bars, and he remembered on one occasion, in 1948, being called to the family home to find the fire department mopping up after Alma had placed her husband’s clothes on the floor of the lounge and set them on fire! He said that she was clearly “under the influence of liquor” when he spoke to her. She did not deny setting the clothes alight (The Sydney Sun: Tuesday 2^nd May 1950).

Mrs. Beryl Pinson, Alma’s sister-in-law who lived next door explained why the marriage was so dysfunctional. She testified that Alma had frequently come to her with bruises on her arms and legs and she was getting increasingly desperate. She had said of her husband: “If he doesn’t get out, I will burn the place down.” Alma wanted to change her will and, according to Beryl, “she asked for a piece of paper and then dictated a will to me: She seemed in full possession of her faculties” (The Sydney Sun: Tuesday 2^nd May 1950). After composing the will, Alma asked Beryl to keep it as “otherwise her husband would “giver her a belting”” (Sydney Morning Herald: Wednesday 3^rd May 1950).

Sadly, those were different times. Mr. Justice Roper rejected the second will and refused to admit it to probate. He said that despite what he had heard: “I find it impossible to feel satisfied that on the date the will was made, the testatrix was of sound mind and understanding” (Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate: Wednesday 3^rd May 1950). After stating that Alma was a chronic alcoholic he went on to say that: “At the time Mrs. Dunn made the will, she did not appear to be actually drunk. But her long addiction to alcohol so impaired her mental powers that she was unable to exercise her discretion in making a will.” His Honour directed that court costs be paid out of the estate.

The issue was finally resolved in March 1951 when Letters of Administration were granted to Beryl Vernie Pinson (New South Wales: Index to Deceased Estate Files: 1859 – 1958; See also: NRS-13660-30-10023-Series 4_374861).

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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

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Lily Amy Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1871
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1873

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1891

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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

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Archibald Frederick Pinson

Vital Statistics

Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951: GRO1890 (Butcher, Camdenville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

1. Rosanna Pettit: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1887: Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

Children by Rosanna Pettit:

Elizabeth Jane Pinson: 1887 – xxxx (Married Oliver Goldsmith, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1907)
James William Pinson: 1889 – 1950 (Married Minnie Calder, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1910)
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – 1945 (Married May Eliza Justina Pipe, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1912)
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1891 – 1973 (Married (1) Florence M. Jacques, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1915; (2) Esmeralda Elsie Ella Johnson, xxxx, xxxx)
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx (Married Eva May Barrett, Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia, 1914)
Stanley Roy Pinson: 1896 – 1898
Rose A. Pinson: 1903 – xxxx (Married Cyril T. V. McCabe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1928)
Doris Violet Marjory Pinson: 1905 – xxxx (Married Thomas Archibald Wes Turnbull, 1936)
Mary Agnes Pinson: 1907 – xxxx (Married Keith James, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, 1926)
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1909 – 1978 (Kathleen V. Phillips, Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, 1933)

2. Ellen Storm: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1929: Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1890

Archibald Frederick Pinson was the second child and eldest son of Richard Thomas Pinson by his wife, Mary Agnes (née McClune). He was born on “George Street” in Redfern, which was then an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1869. His parents had thirteen children over twenty-five years and all but two (both girls), survived. Archibald and at least five of his brothers’ married and four of them had children. Their lives are discussed elsewhere. Richard Thomas was a “butcher”, who moved around the suburbs of Sydney and eventually settled in Ashfield.

Archibald was called as a witness following the death of one Edwin James Lloyd, who died after a pre-arranged fight in Belmore in July 1891. He deposed that he did not see the last round of the fatal fight (somehow none of the witnesses interviewed did…!) and, although he admitted that he knew several of the people there, and that a certain Edmund Clarke had been among them, he could not see what he was doing. He heard a Mr. Kauffmann oppose the fight and, when it was over, he saw that the deceased was unconscious in his second’s arms. He claimed that he had, coincidentally, just been passing with his cart and he volunteered to take the man home. Edwin never regained consciousness. Archibald said that he did not see any money change hands (Sydney Morning Herald: Thursday 16^th July 1891).

Archibald married Rosanna Pettit in Petersham, Sydney, in 1887 and they had ten children (six boys and four girls) in the years that followed. Of these, only one boy, Stanley Roy Pinson, died young. The rest reached maturity and married. Archibald’s marriage to Rosanna seems to have started to fail in the early 1900s; however, they were still together and having children in 1909, which is when the youngest, Thomas Henry Pinson, was born. Money seems to have been the problem. In May 1904, Archibald published the following notice in the Sydney Morning Herald (Thursday 12^th May 1904): “I, ARCHIBALD PINSON, will not be responsible for any DEBTS contracted by any Person after this date without my written authority. A. Pinson, Katherine-Street, Leichhardt.”

The family was, however, still together in 1913 – the year Archibald’s father, Richard Thomas Pinson, died. “Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Pinson” dutifully invited their friends to attend Richard’s funeral at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney. Archibald, his mother, and his brothers and sisters all submitted essentially identical notices on the same day (Sydney Morning herald: Saturday 11^th January 1913).

Archibald was a “butcher” who, presumably, learned the trade from his father. He was described as being a “pork butcher” when his eldest son (James William Pinson) was married in 1910. He was then living on Wellington Street in Rozelle (Balmain) with his wife Roseanna and their younger children. Their three eldest children (Elizabeth Jane Pinson, James William Pinson and Richard Thomas Pinson) had married and moved out of the family home by 1913; however, he still had his sons Archibald Frederick Pinson and William James Pinson living with him – presumably still learning the trade (Australian Electoral Rolls: 1913: Ancestry.com). The latter married Eva May Barrett in 1914.

Archibald Frederick (“junior”) married Florence M. Jacques in 1915; however, not before siring an illegitimate child – whether by Florence or someone else – I do not know. On 18^th March 1914, the New South Wales Police Gazette carried a notice stating that the “Children’s Court Bench” had issued a warrant for Archibald’s arrest on a charge of disobeying a magisterial order for the support of his child (£2 10s). In the warrant, he was described as being 24 years old, five feet three or four inches high, of fair complexion and slight build. He was clean shaven, had brownish hair and blue eyes. What became of the child, I do not know. Archibald and Florence never had any legitimate children – at least that I am aware of.

When Archibald “senior’s” nephew Herbert Cecil Pinson died in July 1928 and he and his brothers placed the then conventional notices in the press advising their friends of the funeral arrangements, “Mrs. Archibald Pinson” was notably absent (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 31^st July 1928). Rosanna had filed for divorce the previous year (Divorce and Matrimonial Cause Papers: NRS-13495-8-[13/13454]-1135:1927) and her petition for the dissolution of her marriage on grounds of desertion had been granted earlier in the month (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 3^rd July 1928).

There is nothing to suggest that Archibald “junior’s” marriage was ever in trouble and he and his wife died in Kingsford a few years apart, so it was probably Archibald “senior” who married Ellen Storm in Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales in 1929. Interestingly, when Archibald’s mother (Mary Agnes née McClune) came to make her will in July 1930, she chose Henry Davis (a solicitor) and her third son, Richard Alfred Pinson as her executors (Sydney Morning Herald: Tuesday 22^nd July 1930). Perhaps Archibald’s divorce and remarriage had caused some dissension in the family.

Archibald’s daughters, Rose, Doris and Mary married in the 1920s and his youngest son, Thomas Henry Pinson (who was twenty years younger than his eldest) married Kathleen V. Phillips in 1933. Thomas Henry enlisted in Sydney and served with the “Royal Australian Air Force” during the “Second World War”. Again, I am not aware of any children. He died in Matraville in 1978 and Kathleen Pinson died in Macquarie in 1996.

Archibald and his second wife Ellen (née Storm) lived on “Dickson Street”, in Camdenville throughout the 1930s and probably into the early 1940s (New South Wales Electoral Rolls). However, she died in July 1942 and Archibald seems to have moved to “Linthorpe” Street in Newtown by 1943. He died in August 1951 and was buried in the “Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park” at Matraville, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia: (Australia and New Zealand: Find a Grave Index: 1800s-Current: Ancestry.com). Perhaps he had moved to be beside his youngest son in Matraville.

Archibald Frederick Pinson “junior” and his wife, Florence had no family that I know of and they are hard to trace. They both died in Kingsford, a suburb in South Sydney. She died in 1968, and he followed in 1973. Archibald may have remarried in the interim as he was living with Ella Elsie Pinson on “Haig Avenue” in Kingsford in 1972 – the year before he died. Ella Pinson “late of Daceyville” died in Sydney in June 1974. She was 72 years old, so must have been a few years younger than her late husband (Sydney Morning Herald: 1^st July 1974).

Three of Archibald and Rosanna’s other sons, James William, Richard Thomas and William James married and had families of their own. They are discussed elsewhere.

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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

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Mary Ann Matilda Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1868
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1868

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1889

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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

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Mary Agnes Pinson

Vital Statistics

Birth: N/A (née Mary Agnes McClune)
Marriage: Richard Thomas Pinson, 1867
Death: 1930

Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1888

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