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Marriage: Peters – Mathew: February 7th, at Shepton Mallet, by the Rev. Canon Pratt, William Parsons Peters of Yeobridge, South Petherton, to Elizabeth Mathew, granddaughter of the late Jonah Pynsent Mathew, of Rydon House, Tallaton, Devon.
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Melbourne Cottage: Westbury upon Trym Gloucestershire: Mr. Scott will sell by auction, on the premises on Wednesday next, October 22nd, all the remaining portion of the truly good and valuable household furniture, china, glass, plated articles, six paintings and engravings, a costly, fine and full-toned 6 ½ octave cabinet piano-fore, and other miscellaneous effects of Mrs. Pinsent, leaving England for Australia. Comprising six capital rosewood chairs and coach, in figured damask, with suit of window curtains and poles to match; superior loo and tray tables, lady’s Devonport, easy chair, four-tier whatnot, and ottoman footstool, in mahogany; Brussels carpet, hearth rugs, pair of handsome lustres, chimney and toilet glasses, handsome Spanish mahogany half-tester bedstead with footboards and figured damask drapery; mahogany marble top washstand, dressing-table tray-top wardrobe, incised commode, chest drawers, boot and shoe rack, painted French bedstead, palliasse, mattress, child’s mahogany table chair, barometer and thermometer, set of imitation rosewood chairs, Kidderminster carpets, Palmer’s table lamp, tea urn, papier-mache trays, fenders, fire irons, the usual kitchen utensils, and other articles. The whole may be viewed the day preceding the sale, which will commence at eleven o’clock.
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GRO1378 Hennock: Mary Ann Ogden Hassall: xxxx – 1876
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: 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
Council House: Bristol, Saturday January 10th:Magistrates present: The Mayor, Co. Worrall & Mr. Jones: Mr. Burton Pinsent, corn-factor, Welsh Back, appeared before the bench, and asked their worships’ opinion upon the point raised in the subjoined facts: A French vessel came to this port with a cargo of wheat consigned to him, and finding the berth opposite his warehouse to be unoccupied, the captain took possession of it and commenced discharging; some time after, however, a Welsh trader came up, the captain of which insisted on the Frenchman turning out from the inside berth, and on the Frenchman refusing, cut his cable and turned him adrift. What he wanted to know was this, – whether, occupying a warehouse on the Back, and paying extra rent and charges, his vessels had not a right to remain in the berth which they might take up as being most convenient for discharging their cargoes? Mr. Jones thought that the fact of renting a warehouse had nothing to do with the occupancy of berths, though certainly no vessel had a right to turn another out without the direction of the quay warden, and if damage had been done to the Frenchman the captain of the Welsh trader might be summoned. Co. Worrall thought the first vessel that came had the right to the quay wall. Mr. Burgess: Who placed the Frenchman next to the wharf? Was he placed there by the harbour master? Mr. Pinsent (as we understood) said he did not know, but the captain of the Welsh trader asserted a general leave to lie there given to him by the quay warden. In the course of conversation which took place, the bench expressed their opinion that no ship should take up a berth except by the direction of the quay warden or harbour master, but that no vessel had the right to eject another from a berth, which could only be properly done by command of the same authority.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874