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JOHN PINEL

Information received from Win Pinel  

 ‘JOHN PINEL was born on 14th January 1849 at a house in Lempriere Street , in the town of St Helier , Jersey .’

‘Up to the age of nearly six years,’ he ‘lived with his mother in Jersey, occasionally making trips to London when his father arrived there from his voyages. He remembered little of what happened during those years, except that he had two illnesses; one was typhus fever of a severe type and the other a mild attack of smallpox.’

He ‘went to school in England until he was sixteen, interspersed with one or two sea trips for health reasons’. He ‘did have ideas of also going to sea. His father had other ideas, but signed him on in a semi-official capacity on his own ship, after which JOHN Jnr gave the idea away. In 1868 he got a job in the tea business, as a shipping clerk in Shanghai and ‘ later had various postings ‘up and down the China coast in the tea business, also in the Yokohama , Japan Office. Because of unsatisfactory health, in 1874 he returned to England ’. The following year, ‘his half-sister, LILLIAN MARY, was born, his father having remarried. He returned to China , in the tea trade, until 1877, when he returned again to England and was in the tea business there with a Mr Oliver’.

His business did not prosper as well as it should have and in 1889 he decided to emigrate to Australia . ‘They went on board the Rodney on 29th May 1889. The ship finally left Gravesend on the 31st May, arriving in Sydney Harbour on 22nd August 1889. He had letters of introduction to people in Sydney , but, as there were no opportunities for work there, they proceeded to Tasmania ’.

‘They left Sydney for Hobart on 13th September 1889, arriving in Hobart on the 16th, per S.S. Oonah. Here he obtained a job with the Examiner, a Launceston daily newspaper. His wife, EMILY, contracted typhoid fever and died on 26th January 1890. She was buried in the Church of England cemetery, East Launceston ’.

‘He relinquished his position with the Examiner and proceeded to New Zealand , but things did not go well there and he later returned to Launceston’. His future father-in-law, ALFRED FIELD, was working at the Examiner as a collector and that was how he came to know the family. Before leaving New Zealand , JOHN had written to him and he had arranged for him to work as an accountant with Alfred Harrop & Son, commencing on the 29th May 1891, in their Wool & Real Estate section.

In Launceston, JOHN ‘boarded with the Field family at Beacon Lodge, Hillside Crescent , and that was how he came to meet’ his wife, ADA ELIZABETH FIELD. ‘They were married on Wednesday 22nd June 1892 and had a brief honeymoon in Hobart, returning to Launceston on the 29th of the month and taking up their abode at Devon Cottage in Howick Street’.

‘JOHN PINEL had started work with Alfred Harrop & Son at the age of forty-two years and continued there until July 1926, when failing health made it imperative for him to give up at the age of 77 years. The family wanted him to retire much earlier but he persisted as long as he could. He died on 18th March 1930 at the age of 81 years. ADA PINEL had predeceased him on 17th January 1921 at the age of 55 years, cause of death being pneumonia’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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