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Burton Pinsent & Co: General and Commission Merchants: Melbourne: Agent: Elias George Hall, 8 Temple Street, Bristol.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Burton Pinsent & Co: General and Commission Agents, Melbourne: Agent’s Elias George Hall, 8 Temple Street, Bristol: Australia: Important to Merchants and Others: Elias G. Hall (Agent to B. Pinsent and Co, Melbourne,) begs to inform those parties who may be about to consign goods to the above firm, that he has charted the fine fast-sailing clipper brigantine INO, Thos. M. Temple, master, 350 tons burthen, to sail about the first week in October. This vessel, being of light draught of water, will engage to deliver goods along the quay at the above port, at freight of £5 and 5 per cent, per ton of 40 cubic feet two thirds of which may be paid in Australia: for further particulars apply at 8, Temple Street.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Australia: Burton Pinsent (late of Bristol but now of Melbourne) begs to inform his friends in England that he has entered into partnership with Mr. Henry Player, late of Moorend, near Bristol, under the firm of B. Pinsent & Co., with an establishment in Melbourne, and a branch at Diggings. B. Pinsent & Co. have first rate facilities for the disposal of any goods their friends may consign to them and assure them that no exertion shall be wanting on their part to insure prompt and remunerative returns: Any informant as to prices, freights, mode of shipment etc. will be supplied by their agent, Mr. Elias G. Hall, of 8, Temple Street, Bristol. 44 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne: Victoria: 5th April 1853.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER: A friend has kindly lent us a copy of the sixth edition of the St. Helena Advocate, the four small folio pages of which are almost entirely occupied with the subject of the arrival of the “Great Britain” at the island. It is evident that disappointment and dissatisfaction exist, naturally caused by the putting back of the ship, and the consequent of loss of time; some anonymous complaints are also made with respect to the accommodations and the provisions, but they are not generally shared in. Amongst 600 or 700 passengers, it is impossible but that there must be many carping, discontented with just so much ability as qualifies them to find fault, lack the temper to bear with unavoidable misadventures. Those who take long voyages in any ship, not to say a crowded emigrant one, must be content to submit to conveniences and deprivations inseparable from their position. On board the “Great Britain” a MS paper, which has reached its third number, is published by some such an individual, and which, cleverly and spitefully written, attributes the putting back of the vessel to the “parsimony of the proprietors in not originally shipping coal enough;” the writer finds no fault with ship or Captain. Amongst a number of other advertisements informing the friends of emigrants in this country and Ireland that they are well is the following: – “V.R. – Our friends in Bristol and neighbourhood. — H. J. Cornier, T. Marks, G. Gobjoy, and S. Wellington, all right and well: To friends at home. “S. P.W.”. Of passengers from this city and neighbourhood, reported to have arrived well, are the following: ‘‘T. O. Pinsent, T. B. Pinsent (sic), O. Fedden, N. Fedden, E. Humpage, Mr. Duffett, Mrs. Duffett, Henry Woolley, Bath; D. T. Perron, E. J. Capron. M. Morgan, Joseph Solomon.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
GRO0851 Hennock: Thomas Ogden Pynsent: 1839 – 1864
The Great Britain: It is singular to observe the interest which has been taken everywhere in the voyage of this noble steamship to Australia… [includes a description of the trials and tribulations of the vessel in its transit to The Cape, much of it from papers made up in St. Helena, where the ship resupplied]. The Advocate (Newspaper) contains a list of the passengers of the “Great Britain,” among whom we believe the following are from Bristol and the neighbourhood: T.O. Pinsent, T.B. (sic) Pinsent, O. Fedden, N. Fedden, E. Humpage, Mr. Duffet, Mrs. Duffet, Henry Wooley; Bath, D.T. Perrott, A.T. Capron, M. Morgan, Joseph Solomon. We have been favoured with the sight of a letter from Mr. Burton Pinsent, a passenger, formerly of this city, dated August 27, when the vessel had been at sea six days, and was opposite Gibraltar, but a portion of it written subsequently. We extract some of the more general passages: The writer says: “The Great Britain is a noble ship, and realised all that the story tells of her. As yet we have had contrary winds, or winds too light to do us much good; only four boilers out of six are at work, owing to two of them being full of passenger’s water, still we have gone about 240 miles per day, passing everything in sight. In fact, nothing can touch us. I hope by and by we shall have more winds and make our 300 miles a day. We dined in the Bay of Biscay in our saloon as quietly as in a Bristol parlour – no motion, and eatables the same as on shore, lettuce, salmon, celery, venison, roast beef etc. We are now getting warmer, still not so hot as the hottest part of last summer. We have a very fine lot of young men, say 500 out of 600 passengers, many of them about six feet high. I should say most of the cabin passengers will be much disappointed in Australia, being quite unfit for difficulties. In my mess we have one half from the neighbourhood of Bristol. We have five or six musical parties every night on deck, French, German, English flutes etc. and such is the length of the ship that they don’t interfere with one another. We have besides, a ship’s band, but they were “non est” for two or three days, being sick. We had three gentlemen in green, by the name of shark, following us for about an hour; they were about the size of a good longboat, and the mate said they were the largest he had ever seen. Tom and I eat about double what we did on shore and sleep all night. The weather has been beautiful, but the ship rolled a great deal now and then. We have escaped seasickness so far. It is now 4th September, we are in latitude 7 and longitude 15; we have had it disagreeable, hot and close, and kept close to the African shore all the way. We are getting on pretty comfortably – a great deal of grumbling from the fore-cabins. The wind has been too light or dead against us as we are now doing we shall not make a quick passage. Tom and I continue to brave the sea without sickness, and we are as comfortable as the sea can make us; but I shall be confoundedly glad when we arrive in Australia.”
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
GRO0851 Hennock: Thomas Ogden Pynsent: 1839 – 1864
— in the Emma et Francoise: B. Pinsent 450 quarters —
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol, Foreign and Irish Imports: In the Brisk, Harding, from London: B. Pinsent 10 tons rice meal …
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
From Redon in the Emma Marie: B. Pinsent, 550 qrs barley …
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol Imports: In the Etienne Marie, from Redon, B. Pinsent, 550 qrs barley.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
Bristol Imports: In the Helen Anna, from Skibbereen; B. Pinsent, 850 qrs oats.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874