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Posted by Anne on 23/2/2023, 10:52 pm

27 March 1782, John PINE was baptised at Sidmouth illegitimate s/o Mary Pine.
1789, aged 7yrs he started an apprenticeship on Austin's estate, Sidmouth (Overseer of Poor Accounts.)
1804 aged 21yrs (ag lab) apprenticeship finished and John Pine joined the Royal Navy.
His R.N.records say he was not pressed.
During Napoleonic War John served off the coast of America.
10 years later John Pine retired from the R.N. Shortly after this, he married in Exeter.
Questions
1. Where/who was 'Austin's in Sidmouth parish? 2. 2. Where did John join the R.N.? Would this have been in Plymouth, but could it have been in Sidmouth itself ?

Re: Royal Navy

Posted by Peter Selley on 25/2/2023, 2:12 pm, in reply to "Royal Navy"

Q1 Otterton is a possibility

Close to Sidmouth and plenty of Pines/Austins

Re: Royal Navy

Posted by anne on 25/2/2023, 8:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Royal Navy"

How did the R.N set about getting new recruits. My John was not pressed. Since his illegitimate birth in 1782, he would have seen Sidmouth change from a small farming/fishing village to the beginnings of a 'holiday resort'. But as far as I know, he wasn't from a sea-going family.

Re: Royal Navy

Posted by Judith on 25/2/2023, 8:00 am, in reply to "Royal Navy"

Austin was the name of the family who owned the estate. If you go on the site for Tithe maps of east devon, you may find something to help locate it.
Re recruiting, could have been Sidmouth, or Exeter, they might have had a recruiting drive, or he might have had a friend already serving who persuaded him to join up.

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