John Nesbitt Fox

[nzenigma]

John N. Fox - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Birth: < 1766> Of, Killucan, Westmeath, Ireland

John N. Fox Pedigree
   Birth:     Of Dublin, , Leitrim, Ireland 
Marriages:
 Spouse:  Mary Nesbitt    Marriage:  DEC 1791
 <Of Dublin, , Leitrim, Ireland> 

lovely script but fast track interpretation is:
" to my father John Nesbitt Jones of Gaubymount(sic?) in the county of Dublin Goulloway the sum of 'hotuly' pounds"  (PROB 11/1674)

[wilcoxon]

http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/Neighbourhood/contents.html

Chapter 21. Ballymount, 
Chapter 24.  Dollymount 

[nzenigma]

Hi Wilcox,
definitley is 'our Fox' :
 "Sarah Jones spinster daughter of my brother in law John Jones"..... also appears to get a hotuly.
Cheers Gary

[nzenigma]

notation on will

"In the above will I gave 'rallos' my father John Nesbitt Fox instead of John 2towromon Fox"

Gary

[wilcoxon]

Ken .
What was the role of a Paymaster and Quartermaster.
This is all I  can find. Surely  if he was in a Regiment then he wasn`t sitting in an office somewhere 

Paymaster.
It was occasionally a cabinet-level post in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and many future prime ministers served as Paymaster
Records of the Office of the Paymaster General
Established: In the War Department by the act creating the Pay Department (3 Stat. 297), April 24, 1816.
Predecessor Agencies:
Paymaster of the Army (1792-1816)
Functions: Paid the army.

Quartermaster refers to two different military occupations. In land armies, it is a term referring to either an individual soldier or a unit, who specializes in distributing supplies and provisions to troops.

[cati]

Each regiment would have its own quartermaster, paymaster and paymaster adjutant who travelled with the regiment.

Cati

[wilcoxon]

Thanks cati, so it seems JNf travelled around.  I have managed to track him help from  Ken.
It would be interesting to find where these regiments were at the time.

In the will (post 1) is this, unfortuately I can make out the surname.
 Thomas  Rynd ? late Major of the Hundredth Regiment of foot and at present  residing at Toullouse in the Kingdom of Ffrance

List of Officers in the Marine and Army. war office
37th (or the North Hampshire) Regt. of foot.
Quarter master 15th June 1820.
Rank in the army Lieut 13th April 1815

London Gazette.
18 April 1815
100 th Regiment of foot Ensign John N Fox to be Lieutenant vice Fortune deceased. Dated 13 April 1815.

4 July 1818
99th Regiment of foot Lieutenant John N Fox from the half pay of the regiment to be Lieutenant vice Driscoll removed from the service . Dated 1 April 1818

21 April 1821,
37th Regiment of foot.
Quarter master Joseph Holmes  from half pay 20th Light Dragoons to be Quarter master vice John Nesbitt Fox who returns to his former half pay as Lieutenant in the 99th foot.

12 May 1821
2nd West India Regiment Lieutenant John Nesbitt Fox from half pay 99th foot to be Paymaster vice Dely who resigns. Dated 3 May 1821

The 99th Regiment were known as the 100th before 23rd February 1816

[nzenigma]

Hi Folks,

Following Wilcoxon's lead, I would like to know where John died. Was it battle related?

Is there a register of war graves for this period?

from Wilcoxon: War Office, postings, 26 December 1823, 2nd West India Regiment, paymaster Fox, deceased.


Some historical research leads me to a number of 2nd West India Reg. deaths in 1823.
at, or related to, Sierra Leone.

 However, an authority on another site insists that the regiment was in Rio Pongo (1820) and Modern Ghana (1823-24).

Can you help with this too? 

Regards Gary

[wilcoxon]

There was a serious outbreak of yellow fever at Sierra Leone, and  newspaper reports that a Captain Fox, 2nd West India Regiment died.
Is this our man, would a Captain also be a Paymaster.    the problem is there were quite a few officers named Fox. I don`t think it is him.
Royal Cornwall Gazette, , England), Saturday, July 19, 1823