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Birth: 1936 (née Valerie Beryl Shoveller)
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: Husband (GRO1980)
Death: 1965
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1985
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Birth: N/A
Marriage: Laurence Unknown
Death: 2013
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1981
Grandfather: William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945
Grandmother: Florence Isabella Field: 1874 – 1946
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1905 – 1966
Mother: Beryl Vernie Wilkinson: 1910 – 1984
Alma Isabella Mary Pinson: 1903 – 1949
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1905 – xxxx
Brother (GRO1980)
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Birth: 1910
Marriage: Richard Thomas Pinson, 1931
Death: 1984
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1930
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Richard Thomas Pinson: 1905 – 1966 GRO1927 (Butcher, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia)
Beryl Vernie Wilkinson: 1910 – 1984
Married: 1931: Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Beryl Vernie Wilkinson:
Son (GRO1980)
Elaine Pinson: xxxx – 2013
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1927
Richard Thomas Pinson was the only son of William James Pinson by his wife, Florence Isabella (née Field). He was born in Sydney New South Wales in 1905. His father was a “compositor” for a “printer” who worked in the “Treasury Division of the State Government” in Sydney.
The Electoral Rolls show that Richard Thomas Pinson, who was a “warehouseman” while still young, was living with his mother on “Victoria Road” in Marrickville in 1930. His father was absent at the time; whether because he was working elsewhere or there was some tension in the family I do not know.
Richard Thomas married wife Beryl Vernie (née Wilkinson) the following year and they both lived with his mother. Beryl was a “dress-maker”. Richard’s sister, Alma Mary Pinson, was also living with them in the family home by 1930. She was a “clerk” whose husband (Reginald Jelfs) had recently died.
Richard and Beryl moved out shortly thereafter and Florence and Alma seem to have had the run of the “Victoria Road” house to themselves from 1934 onward. Richard and Beryl moved in with his father who was then living on “Edward Street” in Marrickville in 1936. Richard was a “butcher” who had probably learnt the trade from one of his uncles. Richard Alfred Pinson, Thomas Henry Pinson, Walter Pinson and Arthur Ernest Pinson were all “butchers” living in and around Sydney at the time. They had picked up the trade from their father. Why Richard Thomas’s father (William James Pinson) had gone in a different direction, I do not know. William had moved out and Richard and Beryl had the “Edward Street” house to themselves the following year (1937). However, William James returned they had moved next door to the old family home on “Victoria Road” by 1943. Richard’s father died in August 1945 and his widow, Florence died the following year (Sydney Morning Herald: Monday 8th July 1946).
Alma remarried in 1943, and she and her second husband, Eric John Dunn, stayed on in the family home after her parents passed away. It was not a happy marriage. Eric, who was a railway employee (Sydney Anglican Parish Records: 1814-2011: Ancestry.com) and a porter at the Central Railway Station and in 1946 and 1947 became abusive. Alma took to drink. When she died in 1949, her husband had in his possession a will from early on in their marriage that left much of her estate (estimated to be around £1,500) to him. What he did not know was that Alma, with Beryl’s assistance, had made out a new will leaving the bulk of her estate to Beryl’s two children. Eric challenged this will in the “Probate Court” on grounds of her alcoholism and lack of “testamentary capacity”. Predictably, there was a considerable amount of press interest when the case was heard in the Court!
Eric told the court that he had to get up at 3.30 a.m. to go to work and he went to bed early. His wife stayed up drinking. He claimed that on one occasion in 1948 she had nailed up the door and gone on a drinking spree – after which he had to pick up six empty brandy bottles. On another occasion, he said he found thirty-seven empty wine bottles lying around after she had been drinking for a week. He complained that he had to cook his own Christmas dinner (The Sydney Sun: Monday 1st May 1959)!
Clearly his life was intolerable … A Sergeant Law testified that he frequently saw Alma in hotel bars and wine saloons, and he remembered being called to the family home at one point in 1948 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. However, she did not deny setting the clothes alight (The Sydney Sun: Tuesday 2nd May 1950).
It was left to Mrs. Beryl Pinson, Alma’s sister-in-law to explain 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 desperate. She had said of her husband: “If he doesn’t get out, I will burn the place down.” According to Beryl, Alma was determined to change her will and “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 2nd 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 3rd May 1950).
Beryl’s evidence seems to have carried little weight. 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 3rd 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 the court costs be paid out of the estate. Sadly, those were different times.
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).
Richard and Beryl stayed on next door to Richard’s family’s erstwhile home on “Victoria Street” and the were still living there in 1958, by which time their son, had come of age and also shows up in the records.
Richard had, by then, reverted back to being a “labourer”. His son was a “fitter” and Beryl was, predictably, still assigned to “home duties.” Their son moved out, but Richard and Beryl remained on in “Victoria Road” through until at least 1964 and Beryl was still there in 1968, two years after her husband died. Beryl passed in 1984.
Grandfather: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Grandmother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
Father: William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945
Mother: Florence Isabella Field: 1874 – 1946
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
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Birth: 1903
Marriage: Reginald A. Jelfs, 1922; Eric John Dunn, 1943
Death: 1949
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1926
Grandfather: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Grandmother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
Father: William James Pinson: 1875 – 1945
Mother: Florence Isabella Field: 1874 – 1946
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
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1905 – 1966
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Birth: 1874 (née Florence Isabella Field)
Marriage: William James Pinson, 1901
Death: 1946
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1918
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Birth: 1894
Marriage: Walter C. Dart, 1916
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1901
Grandfather: Joseph Pinsent: 1819 –1881
Grandmother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Mother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
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
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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Birth: 1891
Marriage: Alfred E. Carruthers (1933)
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1900
Grandfather: Joseph Pinsent: 1819 –1881
Grandmother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Mother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
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
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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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.
Grandfather: Joseph Pinsent: 1819 –1881
Grandmother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Mother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
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
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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Birth: 1887
Marriage: Andrew C. Davis, 1913
Death: N/A
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1898
Grandfather: Joseph Pinsent: 1819 –1881
Grandmother: Elizabeth Snell: 1824 – 1880
Father: Richard Thomas Pinson: 1850 – 1913
Mother: Mary Agnes McClune: 1846 – 1930
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
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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