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James Henry NORCOTT (1812 - 1870)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Amos Chauncey Harrison NORCOTT (1857 - 1932)	James Henry NORCOTT (1812 - 1870) + Adela Ann HARRISON (1834 - 1910)	Amos NORCOTT ( - 1838)

b. abt 1812

m. 1850 Adela Ann HARRISON (1834 - 1910) at Victoria, Australia

d. 1870 at Mackay, Queensland, Australia aged 58

Near Relatives of James Henry NORCOTT (1812 - 1870)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	Capt. John HARRISON	1800	Cumberland, England	21 Jul 1869	Williamstown, Victoria, Australia	69
Mother in Law	Jane HOWE	09 Nov 1816	Sydney, NSW, Australia	23 Nov 1880	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	64
Father	Amos NORCOTT			1838	Cork, Co Cork, Ireland
Self	James Henry NORCOTT	abt 1812		1870	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	58
Wife	Adela Ann HARRISON	11 Sep 1834		23 Jul 1910	Victoria, Australia	75
Son	Amos Chauncey Harrison NORCOTT	1857	Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia	1932	Richmond, Victoria, Australia	75
Daughter in Law	Ada Mary GARDNER
Niece	Eva Wills HARRISON	11 Aug 1865	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	27 Sep 1869	Victoria, Australia	4
Nephew	Horace HARRISON	25 Dec 1866	Collingwood, Victoria, Australia	1867	Victoria, Australia	1
Niece	Kate Wills HARRISON	26 Feb 1868	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1955	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia	87
Niece	Emily Rosalie (Rose) HARRISON	23 Jul 1869		1947	Hove, Sussex, England	78
Nephew	Henry Norman HARRISON	28 Jul 1870		09 May 1895	Broad Arrow, WA, Australia	24
Niece	Ida Mary HARRISON	20 Jan 1872	Kew, Victoria, Australia	01 Aug 1872	Victoria, Australia	0
Nephew	Eric Spencer HARRISON	1874		1874	Victoria, Australia	0
Niece	Ruby Spencer HARRISON	25 Mar 1876	Victoria, Australia	1958	Richmond, Victoria, Australia	82
Niece	Alma Wills (twin) HARRISON	31 Mar 1882	Kew, Victoria, Australia	1960	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	78
Niece	Eileen Spencer (twin) HARRISON	31 Mar 1882	Kew, Victoria, Australia	1882	Beechworth, Victoria, Australia	0
Niece	Kate Harrison BAGGE	1878	Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia	1914	Campbelltown, NSW, Australia	36
Brother in Law	John Arthur HARRISON			1897
Brother in Law	Henry Colden Antill HARRISON	16 Oct 1836	Cj, NSW, Australia	02 Sep 1929	Kew, Victoria, Australia	92
Brother in Law	George Alfred HARRISON	1838
Sister in Law	Kate HARRISON	1840		1914	Minto, NSW, Australia	74
Sister in Law	Alice HARRISON	1842
Brother in Law	Ernest HARRISON	1845
Brother in Law	Horace Washington HARRISON	1848	Avon, Victoria, Australia	09 Feb 1869	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	21

Events in James Henry NORCOTT (1812 - 1870)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1812		James Henry NORCOTT was born		Note 1
1838	26	Death of father Amos NORCOTT	Cork, Co Cork, Ireland	Note 2
1850	38	Married Adela Ann HARRISON (aged 16)	Victoria, Australia	Note 3	52, 55, 60
1857	45	Birth of son Amos Chauncey Harrison NORCOTT	Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia	Note 4	52
1870	58	James Henry NORCOTT died	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	Note 5	60

Note 1: death notice - 1870 - age 58 = c 1812

Note 2: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal 18 Aug 1938 MEMOIR OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL SIR AMOS NORCOTT, C. B., K. C. H. Major-General Sir Amos Norcott, C. B., K C.H., joined the 33d Regiment in November, 1793, as Lieutenant, then under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and purchased a company in the same corps in 1794. He embarked with it from Cork in the same year, to join the British Army in Flanders, and served the Campaigns of 1794 and 1795 on the Continent. At this period (94) he was seventeen years of age. He was present in the severe actions of Boxtel, Thuil, Geldermalsel, and in others of less consequence in Holland. On his return to England in 1795, he joined the army near Southampton, destined for the conquest of the enemy's West India Islands. After sailing, and encountering during ten weeks a series of storms and losses (the memorable Christmas gale), the 33d Regiment being a part of that force that returned to port unbroken in January 1796, it re- embarked in April following, and sailed for the East Indies, reaching the Cape of Good Hope, where it landed in August. He proceeded soon after to Bengal ; arrived there in 1797 ; was em- ployed during that year on the expedition against the Manilla Islands, in the Chinese Sea, and re- turned again to Calcutta in 1798. The 33d were afterwards sent to Madras, and formed part of the army that entered the Mysore Country against Seringapatam. He returned to England in 1800, for the recovery of his health, after serving on the Staff of the late Lord Rossmore (his near relative.) At his Lordship's death he served as Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Thomas Murray until the peace in 1802, and in the same year exchanged into the 95th Rifle Corps, now Rifle Brigade. From June 1804 till June 1806 he was employ- ed as Aid-de-Camp and Brigade Major to Major General William Ramsy. In November of the same year he sailed in the expedition to South America, under the late Major-General Robert Crauford ; was present during the operations before Buenos Ayres, and at the assault of that place on the 5th July, 1807, when he commanded the ad- vance' guard of-ihe'Generàl'8 column of attack. It was here, having gained the centre of the town, and taken possession of many of the principal buildings, that being unsupported, he, with that officer and the Light Brigade, was, after a fearful loss and desperate resistance, taken prisoner. He returned to England with his Regiment in February, 1808, and embarked in April following, with the force under the late Sir John Moore, for Sweden, and proceeded with it in August the same year for Portugal, and served with the Army during all its operations through that country and Spain, and in the battle of Corunna in January, 1809, when he returned to England. He after this commanded a part of his regiment in the expedition to the Scheid, and served at the siege of Flushing. In July, 1810, he received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. In the following September he proceeded to Cadiz to command a part of his regiment, and continued there until 1812, when the siege was raised. He commanded a part of the Rifle Corps in the battle of Barossa. His name is honorably made mention of in Sir Thomas Graham's (now Lord Lyndoch) despatches from that field, and his distinguished services were rewarded on this occasion with a medal. In 1812 he returned home on leave of absence, and in October, 1813, he commanded the 2d battalion of the 95th (Rifle Corps) during all the operations of the Army on the Nive and before Bayonne, and received a clasp for these services. He was severely wounded in the sanguinary action at Tarbes, in the South of France, in March, 1814; joined his regiment again near Toulouse in the end of May, was present in that action, and proceeded with his regiment to England in June following. In April, 1815, he joined the army in the Nether- lands, and commanded the 2d battalion of the 95th Rifle Corps on the 18th of June at the battle of Waterloo, where at the close of the action he was again most severely wounded. Upon this occasion he received, besides the medal for that day, the Russian Order of St. Anne, and the Bavarian Order of Maximilian Joseph, and was made a Companion of the Bath for that and previous services. He joined his regiment again in September, and continued in command of it until the British Army evacuated Paris, in November, 1815. In 1819 he commanded at Glasgow during the disturbances of that year, where his decisive and judicious measures were borne testimony to in the result Continuing still to command his regiment, (at the general reduction of the army named the Rifle Brigade), he embarked from Belfast in the year 1825 for Nova Scotia, where, and in New Brunswick, he served until 1830, when he was made Major-General, and subsequently received this honor of Knighthood as Knight Commander of the Hanoverian and Guelphic Order. In November, 1833, he was selected and appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Jamaica and its dependencies, and proceeded in the following month to that island, of which he was Lieutenant-Governor and Commander at the critical period of the change of system in the slave population in 1834. Her Majesty's Ministers having decided that the situations of Commander-in Chief and Governor of Jamaica should for the future be one, he, on the arrival of Lieut.-General Sir Lionel Smyth to relieve the Most Noble the Marquess, of Sligo, returned to England in September, and landed in November, 1836, having served in Jamaica two years and eight months, and suffered much from the baneful effects of its climate. In March, 1837, he was appointed to succeed Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot in the command of the Southern District in Ireland, and re- turned to the city of Cork, where four and forty years before he had visited as a junior officer, to fill the situation ofCommander-in Chief. Herein the arms of his family, who had attended his sick bed for six months, and watched by his medical friend, Staff Assistant-Surgeon Cone, who had for so long a time and so successfully attended him in Jamaica, and who had here for many weeks past by his skill and assiduity contributed to alleviate his sufferings, and to give the most sanguine hopes to his family, he, without a groan of impatience or a, murmur at God's will, breathed his last at a quarter past eleven o'clock A. M , January 8th, 1838. The amiable qualities 'of Sir Amos Norcott were not less conspicuous In private^ life than was that cool and collected courage which he carried with him into the field-a trait he possessed in a peculiar degree, and which, often the admiration of those around him, has been inseparably connected with his name.-

Note 3: Reg No 5526/1850 The Argus (Melbourne) 20 March 1850 MARRIED. Married at St. James' Cathedral, on the 19th inst. by the Rev. Augustus Strong, James Henry Norcott, Esq. youngest son of the late Major General Sir Amos Norcott, C.B.K.C.H. &c. to Adela Ann, eldest daughter of John Harrison, Esq of Swan Water.

Note 4: Australia Birth Index Name Amos Chauncey Harris Norcott Father's Name James Henry Norcott Mother's Name Adelaide Ann Harrisson Birth Place Sandhurst, Victoria Registration Year 1857 Registration Place Victoria Registration Number 3689 Ancestry Trees - 30 Dec 1856, Bendigo

Note 5: Williamstown Chronicle, Victoria - 26 March 1870 NORCOTT.-Of sunstroke, at Port Mackay, Queensland, JAMES HENRY, youngest son of the late General Sir Amos Norcott, C.B., K.G.H. &c. &c, &c, aged 58 years.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Marriage)

55. Type: Book, Abbr: Edward Wills Family and Descendants, Title: Ancestor Treasure Hunt; The Edward Wills Family and Descendants in Australia 1797 - 1976, Auth: R.V. Pockley, Publ: Wentworth Books - Sydney, Date: 1976

- Reference = (Marriage)

- Reference = (Name, Notes)

60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Williamstown Chronicle, Victoria - 26 March 1870 NORCOTT.-Of sunstroke, at Port Mackay, Queensland, JAMES HENRY, youngest son of the late General Sir Amos Norcott, C.B., K.G.H. &c. &c, &c, aged 58 years.

- Reference = (Marriage)

- Notes: The Argus (Melbourne) 20 March 1850 MARRIED. Married at St. James' Cathedral, on the 19th inst. by the Rev. Augustus Strong, James Henry Norcott, Esq. youngest son of the late Major General Sir Amos Norcott, C.B.K.C.H. &c. to Adela Ann, eldest daughter of John Harrison, Esq of Swan Water.

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