Wendy Leahy records that JS was born 21 February 1836 in Heaton Norris, near Stockport, Cheshire. Enlistment documents state Ashton-under-Lyne, and that he had been working for a cotton merchant.
Enlisted at London on the 29th of November 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Invalided to England in October of 1855.
"Absent" from the 2-10 of January 1857.
Discharged, "invalided" from Chatham on the 23rd of April 1857.
Served 2 years 128 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
[Wendy sent this 18 May 2020.]
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JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE
BORN: 21 February 1836
AT: Heaton Norris, near Stockport, Cheshire
Ashton-under-Lyne [according to enlistment]
OCCUPATION: No trade on enlistment. Had been working for a cotton merchant.
FATHER: Henry Sutcliffe b. 1802
MOTHER: Ann Baxter d. 1840
REGIMENT NO: 1680
ENLISTED: 29 November 1854 London aged 19 years
HEIGHT AT ENLISTMENT: 5' 6%"
RANK: 1854-1855: Private
1857: Private
MEDALS: Crimean with Sebastopol clasp
Turkish Crimean
NZ Medal for long and efficient service, awarded in January 1897
EMBARKATIONS: 25 May 1855 England
DISEMBARKATIONS: 15 June 1855 Crimea
25 May 1855 [Crimea] P&M Rolls
OTHER DUTIES: 18 August 1855: To Scutari
1855: Invalided from Scutari to England
DISCHARGED ON REDUCTION: 23 April 1857 Brighton
POST DISCHARGE MILITARY SERVICE: Appointed Colour Sergeant, 70th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, served four years.
Emigrated to Queensland in 1863 with the army and worked with bushrangers.
Camp Sergeant, Native Police Force, McKenzie River
Member of a mounted police gold escort, Peak Downs
Emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s.
Served with the Rangitikei Royal Rifles, Marton, for around 25 years.
Appointed Lieutenant of the Rifles in 1881
Elected Captain of the company in 1893
POST DISCHARGE OCCUPATION: Manchester Police Force, retired after one year.
Moved to Droylsden.
Emigrated to Australia in 1863.
Emigrated to New Zealand in 1870.
Started business in Marton, Rangitikei, where he opened a general store in 1876
Retired in 1888
Served on the Marton Borough Council from 1888 to 1891.
NOTES: Travelled with his wife to England on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee.
DIED: 12 July 1900 Marton, New Zealand
BURIED: St Stephens Anglican Cemetery, Marton New Zealand
NOTES: .
1ST WIFE: Betty Harrison, second daughter of John Harrison, surveyor, of Fairfield
BORN: 1837
MARRIED: 1858, Oldham, Lancashire
DIED: 1916
NOTES: .
1ST CHILD: Albert Harrison Sutcliffe
BORN: 1859 Draylsden Lancashire UK
DIED: 1927
NOTES: 1897, residing in Rangitikei, NZ
2ND CHILD: Harry Sutcliffe
BORN: 1864 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
DIED: 1940
NOTES: 1897, residing in Rangitikei NZ
1841 CENSUS: Heaton Norris, Manchester, Lancashire
District 18
Henry Sutcliffe, 37, Cotton Twister, born in county
Joseph Sutcliffe, 5, born in county
TNA SOURCES: WO/12/659-660
WO/12/662
OTHER SOURCES: Cyclopedia of NZ, 1897
Newspapers
Sutcliffe Family Tree, Ancestry.com
LINKS: Cyclopedia of NZ 1897 ../W-icons/cavalrysword.gif
Brisbane Courier, Friday, 3 August 1900
Death of a Crimean Veteran
Captain Joseph Sutcliffe, who died at Marton, New Zealand, on 12th July, will perhaps be remembered by Central Queenslanders of the early sixties. Born in 1836 at Heaton Norris, Cheshill, and there educated, Mr. Sutcliffe spent a few years in the employ of a cotton merchant.
In 1854 he enlisted in the Queen's Own 4th Light Dragoons, soon afterwards leaving for the seat of war in the Crimea. At the close of this campaign he returned to England, receiving the Crimean and Turkish medals, with the clasp of Sebastapol.
On the reduction of the army he obtained his discharge, served for a time in the Manchester Police Force, and afterwards joined the 70th Lancashire Volunteers.
In 1863 he left for Queensland. Being a man of great resource, Mr. Sutcliffe spent his time here in many capacities, as did many another honest pioneer. While in the Central district he served as camp sergeant in the mounted police on the Mackenzie River, and while with the Peak Downs gold escort witnessed many thrilling incidents connected with the historic events of those days.
Leaving here for New Zealand in the seventies, Mr. Sutcliffe was successful in business in Marton, and retired in 1888. He served in the Rangitikei Royal Rifles for about twenty-five years, and received the New Zealand medal for long and efficient service.
In company with Mrs. Sutcliffe, he visited England on the occasion of the Diamond Jubliee. Captain Sutcliffe lived to see a practical outcome of the Volunteer movement — towards which he had so largely contributed — in the sending of colonial troops to the Transvaal. He died universally respected.
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