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 20th 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 31st 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 6th 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).
Family Tree
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
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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