Capt. Francis Milbourne Marsh – aged 48/49 – elder brother of Milbourne, Mary and George
Milbourne Marsh – aged 47/48 – Gibraltar
Elizabeth Marsh (ne Evans)
Eliza Marsh (later Crisp) – aged 21/22 – Gibraltar / London
James Crisp – married Eliza(beth) Marsh – Gibraltar / London
Francis Milbourne Marsh – aged 18/19 – son of Milbourne Marsh and Elizabeth
John Marsh – aged 8/9 – second son of Milbourne and Elizabeth.
Mary Duval (ne Marsh) – aged 44/45 – Sister of George and Milbourne
John Duval – husband of Mary Duval
Elizabeth Duval – aged unknown
George Marsh – aged 34/35
Ann Marsh (ne Long) – aged 36/37
George Marsh – aged 7/8
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Statement of the Services and principal Events in the life of the late George Marsh Esq.
A Commissioner of His Majesty’s Navy.
In October 1757 Mr.Marsh was ordered to return form Portsmouth to London to make up the accounts of the Treasurer of the Navy and to carry on the current Duty of the Comptroller’s office.
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George Marsh Diary
10 Oct 1757
After residing about two years and a half at Portsmouth as happy as possible with my family, and with constant great labour and attention, I had very much increased my income and should have obtained a considerable fortune if I had been permitted to remain there, Mr Deveral the Treasurers first Clerk being a man of such low spirits he could not do much business, Sir xx Temple Bart the second clerk, did not attend to it, and Roderick Richardes a Welsh Magistrate was the clerk from the Ticket Office, who was an idle man, so that I had almost the whole private business of the Port, and my commissions amounted to a great sum every month. On one particular day, it was £30.1.0 I got thereby.
To finish the business of the day, with the day required very close application, insomuch that I was up early and late to do so. A vacancy in the Comptroller Office occasioned a remove of the clerks, and tho’ it was not my turn to be placed in the Pay Office in Broad Street, London, yet I was ordered to remove to London which I did do accordingly this day tho’ very much against my will for the reasons before mentioned, but not before poor Deverel shot himself.
21 October 1757
Took a house in Colchester Street Savage Gardens.
23 October 1757
I was ordered to carry on the payments in Broad Street, and to be one of the set for making up the Treasurer of the Navy his accounts, on ships books, and began on this business this day.
As I found I had wonderfully increased my private business as an Agent, I continued to carry that on in London.
24 October 1757
Captain Gilchrist [Captain James Gilchrist, 17??-1777] of His Majesty’s Ship Southampton and his ships company appointed me their Agent for L’Emerode a French prize and for the St.Denis which they had taken.