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Amos NORCOTT ( - 1838)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
James Henry NORCOTT (1812 - 1870)	Amos NORCOTT ( - 1838)

d. 1838 at Cork, Co Cork, Ireland

Near Relatives of Amos NORCOTT ( - 1838)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	Amos NORCOTT			1838	Cork, Co Cork, Ireland
Son	James Henry NORCOTT	abt 1812		1870	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	58
Daughter in Law	Adela Ann HARRISON	11 Sep 1834		23 Jul 1910	Victoria, Australia	75
Grandson	Amos Chauncey Harrison NORCOTT	1857	Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia	1932	Richmond, Victoria, Australia	75

Events in Amos NORCOTT ( - 1838)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1812		Birth of son James Henry NORCOTT		Note 1
1838		Amos NORCOTT died	Cork, Co Cork, Ireland	Note 2

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 employed 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 advance 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 Netherlands, 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 returned to the city of Cork, where four and forty years before he had visited as a junior officer, to fill the situation of Commander-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.-

Personal Notes:

from marriage notice in Argus of son James

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