Vital Statistics
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx GRO1967 (Butcher, Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Eva May Barrett: 1896 – 1981
Married: 1914: Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia
Children by Eva May Barrett:
William James Pinson: 1915 – 1988
Rossiter Barrett Pinson: 1917 – 1960
Madge Pinson: xxxx – xxxx
Keith Stanley Pinson: xxxx – xxxx
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1967
William James Pinson was the fourth son of Archibald Frederick Pinson by his first wife, Rosanna, (née Pettit). He was born into a family of ten children (6 boys and 4 girls) who arrived over a period of twenty-three years between 1888 and 1909. One of William’s brothers, Stanley Roy Pinson, died young but his other siblings all grew up and most had married and left home by the time their parent’s marriage ended in divorce in 1928. Their father, who was a “butcher” married Ellen Storm in Newtown in Sydney the following year. They had no children that I am aware of.
William James and his older brother Archibald Frederick Pinson “junior” both worked with their father, learnt the trade and became “butchers” in their own right. They were the third generation of Pinsons to go into the business. William James married Eva May Barrett, the daughter of a fellow “butcher” from nearby Annandale, in “St. Thomas’s Anglican Church” in Rozelle (Balmain) in May 1914. Eva was under-age at the time, but her father gave his written consent to the marriage (Sydney Australian Anglican Parish Registers: 1814-2011: Ancestry.com). They promptly started a family that eventually comprised three sons and (probably) a daughter.
In November 1918, William enlisted in the “Australian Army”. His attestation papers show that he was 5 ft. 5 in. tall; he weighed in at 126 lbs. and his chest measured 36 in. He had a fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair and distinctive moles on his back and on the top of his right arm. Somehow or other, he had also managed to acquire scars below both his knees. He was considered fit for service and was enlisted as Private William James Pinson, #96550. He joined too late to actually serve. In fact, the “First World War” ended just a few days after he enlisted! He was, predictably, discharged at end of December 1918 and he went back to being a “butcher”.
William James, Eva May and their family settled in “Heath Street” in Concord, Sydney. The Electoral Rolls show that they were there from 1930 until at least 1937. They also show that William’s mother Rosanna (or Rose Ana as it was sometimes given) and his sister Doris Violet Marjorie Pinson had moved in next-door to him by 1935. At least that part of the family seems to have stayed on speaking terms!
William James’s eldest son, William James “junior” had left home by 1937; however, he had not gone far. The Electoral Rolls show that he lived on “Stamford Avenue” in Concord – which was close to his parents throughout the 1940s. His brother Rossiter Barrett Pinson was a “labourer” who joined the “Australian Imperial Force” (#NX500586) during the “Second World War”. What happened to him afterwards, I am not sure. However, he was living with his parents on “Heath Street” in 1954 and 1958. He died in 1960. I am not aware that he ever married or had children.
William James and Eva May’s third son, Keith Stanley Pinson and their daughter (?) “Madge” Pinson, who had both probably fairly recently come of age, were living with them on “Heath Street” in 1949. Keith was a “fitter” who – presumably – assembled machinery and “Madge” was a “comptometerist” (someone who operated a mechanical calculator). “Madge” could, I suppose, have been married to one or other of the boys. They had left the family home by 1954. Keith drops out of sight until 1980, when he reappears in Murray-Pond, Bennelong living on “Downes Street” with Yvonne Marguerita Pinson. I am not sure of the relationship.
William James Pinson “senior” and his mother, Rosanna, probably both died between 1958 and 1963. Unfortunately, I have yet to find the records. The Electoral rolls show that William James’s wife/widow Eva May was living on her own on “Collingwood Avenue”, near to where her eldest son, William James Pinson “junior,” and his wife Hazel (second name unknown) and their family in 1963. She was still there until 1977 – or perhaps later. She would have been in her eighties when she died in Sydney in September 1981 (Sydney Morning Herald: 29th September 1981).
This branch of the Pinson family is poorly defined but Eva May’s eldest son, William James Pinson “junior” certainly married and had children. His life is described elsewhere.
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 – 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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