1745
George Marsh (born 1683) aged 67/68
Elizabeth Marsh (ne Milbourne) – aged 57/58
Francis Marsh – aged 35/36 – elder brother of Milbourne, Mary and George
Milbourne Marsh – aged 35/36
Elizabeth Marsh (ne Evans)
Eliza Marsh (later Crisp) – aged 9/10
Francis Milbourne Marsh – aged 6/7
John Marsh – aged 3/4
Mary Duval (ne Marsh) – aged 32/33
John (Jean) Duval
Margaret (or Elizabeth) Duval – aged 2/3
George Marsh – aged 22/23
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5th Feb 1745
Commissioner Whorwood was superseded, occasioned by a change in the Ministry, on a pretence too that he was so indolent that he even had a stamp made to save him the trouble of signing his name to procections only which however he used on the several Naval Bills made out in those yards, which being a fact, he was superseded from the aforementioned charge.
He died the latter end of this year at his seat near Canterbury and left about £60,000 to a college at the interest of it for her life to Miss . . . [Caroline?] Scott of Scott’s Hall in Kent, tho’ it was said he never was in the college. He had £50,000 which his wife, who was a very sensible but mean looking woman, who he left in rather distressed circumstances, signifying in his in his will that she had been a disagreeable deformed companion to him, but indeed he was a great brute void of gratitude or civilillity.
7 June 1745
Upon Mr Whorwoods being superseded my brother clerk and myself were of course discharged this day and returned to my father’s house at Chatham.
10th Oct 1745
I was this day recommended by Lord Winchelsea to Mr Clevland [John Clevland 1707-1763] Clerk of the Acts of the Navy, and as I was acquainted with the business of the dockyards, and no clerk of the Navy Office was so, except Mr Snelgrave who could not be spared from the branch he was at the head of, viz of the Surveyor of the Navy Office, I was employed in collecting and making a calculation of the expense of Queen Ann’s War with Spain (it being called for by the House of Commons) under the Heads of Stores, disbursements abroad, and of ships built in merchants yards, or purchased. The first five years and nine months was compared yearly as well as totally under these heads, with the expense of an equal time of the late war with Spain under His Majesty George the 2nd, viz from October 1739 to June 1745 inclusive. See the abstract of the account with my Naval papers. This account I completed in about four months, so much to the satisfaction of the Navy Board that immediately after it was finished, I was entered an Extra Clerk to Mr Haddock [Captain Richard Haddock 1673-1751] Comptroller of the Navy, in his office for bills and accounts; but having set too closely from 5 or 6 o’clock in the morning til 8 or 9 o’clock at night from October to the end of January, I became troubled with a disorder in my head attended with such dizziness that I fell several times in the street, and therefore found it necessary to carry constantly in my pocket a memorandum who I was and where I lodged. I was usually taken with an absolute stupidity and obstruction of sight, with a cloudy vapour playing before my eyes, but not a total deprivation of sight, when I became sick and very faint. In about half and hour after I was so seized my sight generally came clear again but left my head in a very heavy dull state. I was advised to live in the country but that advice I had not in my power to follow.