{"id":395,"date":"2025-05-03T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2025-05-03T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:32:33","slug":"1759-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/1759-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1759"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">1759<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Capt. Francis Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 50\/51 &#8211; elder brother of Milbourne, Mary and George<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 49\/40 &#8211; Gibraltar<br>Elizabeth Marsh (ne Evans)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Eliza Marsh (later Crisp) &#8211; aged 23\/24 &#8211; Gibraltar \/ London<br>James Crisp &#8211; married Eliza(beth) Marsh &#8211; Gibraltar \/ London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Francis Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 20\/21 &#8211; son of Milbourne Marsh and Elizabeth<br>John Marsh &#8211; aged 10\/11 &#8211; second son of Milbourne and Elizabeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Mary Duval (ne Marsh) &#8211; aged 46\/47 &#8211; Sister of George and Milbourne<br>John Duval &#8211; husband of Mary Duval<br>Elizabeth Duval &#8211; aged unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">George Marsh &#8211; aged 36\/37<br>Ann Marsh (ne Long) &#8211; aged 38\/39<br>George Marsh &#8211; aged 9\/10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">3 April 1759<br>I was this day appointed one of the Agents to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMS_Danae\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMS_Danae\">Danae<\/a> prize taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/jjhc.info\/marshgeorgegilchrist\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jjhc.info\/marshgeorgegilchrist\">Captain Gilchrist<\/a> in sight of other of our Ships, in which the brave <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gilchrist_(Royal_Navy_officer)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gilchrist_(Royal_Navy_officer)\">Captain <\/a>was terribly wounded, but in reward for his great services, he having behaved most nobly in many other engagements, King George the second settled a pension of \u00a3300 a year upon him in addition to his whole or half pay, and directed that all his expenses for the cure of his wounds should be paid and that he should be allowed a year&#8217;s wages also which altogether amounted to upwards of \u00a3800, as he lay many months at Yarmouth and was attended by surgeon etc from London by the King&#8217;s express order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">April 1759<br>Two thirds of the Ball and cup of his shoulder bone being shot away by a cannon ball, of which wound he languished (tho&#8217; to appearance healed up, with the loss of the use of his arm) about two years, and died at his house called Ansfield near Hamilton in Scotland. And in regard to his service and gallant behaviour I got his good worthy wife a pension of \u00a3100 per annum. He was as honest and as good a man as I ever knew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">1 May [1759 or 1760]<br>Took a lodging at Dolston (Dalston ?) near Hackney and discharged it in October following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1759 Capt. Francis Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 50\/51 &#8211; elder brother of Milbourne, Mary and George Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 49\/40 &#8211; GibraltarElizabeth Marsh (ne Evans) Eliza Marsh (later Crisp) &#8211; aged 23\/24 &#8211; Gibraltar \/ LondonJames Crisp &#8211; married Eliza(beth) Marsh &#8211; Gibraltar \/ London Francis Milbourne Marsh &#8211; aged 20\/21 &#8211; son of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathcaldwell.com\/marsh_family_timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}