Corporal Henry Fox
(1797....1876)
Back To . . . 50th
Foot West Kent Queen's Own Regiment
Born :
circa 1797
Where Born : Glasgow , Scotland
Occupation : Soldier
Regimental Number
:
Date Arrived : 1834
Ship Arrived on :
Rank on Discharge : Corporal
Date of Enlistment : circa
1827
Where Enlisted : England
Date of Discharge : 28. February 1839
Where Discharged : Grose Farm
Died : 13. April 1876
Where Died /
Buried : Grenfell
Parents Names :
Spouse's Name :
Sarah Russell Irvine
Date Married : 25. January 1830
Where Married : Glasgow
Born :
1814
Where Born : Glasgow
Occupation :
Date Arrived :
Ship Arrived on :
Died : 31. January 1879
Where Died /
Buried : Goologong
Spouse's Parents : John Irvine (b.....d.) &
Isabella McGooran (b.....d.)
- Descendants
some Information supplied by
John Woolley woolley@nobbys.net.au
- Area Settled :
- Carcoar and Goologong NSW
-
- Children :
- 1 . John William Fox ( b. 27/11/1835 Norfolk Island
.........d 1914) married Janet Scott Smith 1868 -
- 2 . Isabella Margaret Fox (b.1837 ......d.1915) married Andrew Dowd 1854 -
- 3 . Elizabeth Fox (b.1840.......d.not known
) married
Patrick Venables 1862 - 2nd marriage William Studman 1867
6 children
- 4 . Mary Ann Warden Fox (b.1841.......d. 1919) married Charles Henry Higgs 1860 -
- 5 . William Fox (b.1842......d.1842 )
- 6 . William Fox (b.1843......d.." 1926) married Eliza Marie Sheppard 1878
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- 7 . Frances Fox (b.1844......d1932.) married John Dowd 1870 -
- 8 . Sarah Russell Fox (b.1846......d.)
- 9 . Jane Fox (b.1850......d.1850)
- 10 . Rose Frances Fox (b.1854......d. 1925) married Fred. Peter Steele 1873
-
History
& Achievements :
- Following Henry's arrival,
he was stationed at Norfolk Island and was recorded as
being on the Island from June 1835 until September 1836.
Henry spent about one year at Liverpool,N.S.W. then from
July 1837 until February 1839 ,Henry was at Grose Farm. Henry
Fox possibly enlisted 1827. no reg. number .
Various convict ships left the UK on the year in question
. The James Laing and Roslin Castle both in 1834 are the
most likely transports. Within a few months some of the
regiment were ordered to Norfolk w\land. Their stay
extended to 1839 when relieved by the 80th Reg. However
Fox and his wife were back on the main land in 1836.
Their child being born on the Island. It is thought that
Sarah Fox worked in hospital. Fox appeared to have
been posted guard and supervision duties at the Grose
Farm convict barracks at Parramatta Rod Sydney. He
applied for his discharged on the 28th Feb.1839 and on
the payment of 10 pounds, this was granted. It appears
that soon after he was employed as a police constable and
lived in Sussex St. Sydney and Parramatta where some of
his children were born and baptised. His occupation on
their birth certificates, varies, as soldier/constable,
inspector and superintendant. On 12 Nov 1846 he was
gazeeted as Chief Costable of Police for the district of
Carcoar NSW. Carcoar then being second only to
Bathurst.A Court was built and a lockup. He had 6 police
under his command. On his retirement in 1853 he acquired
land at Goologong NSW near to his two married daughters
by the name of Dowd. On his death he was described as a farmer,
in 1876.
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Australia
- Last revised: February 06, 2003.