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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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