Daniel Marsh

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Daniel Marsh

Date and place of birth

Names of parents
Daniel Marsh & Sarah nee Merritt

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
5 April 1815, St Marys, Portsea, Hants

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
10 March 1840 St Thomas, Portsmouth, Hants to Mary Newman
14 April 1865 Portsmouth to Rebecca Rumble

Occupation: Mariner, later greenwich pensioner

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
In the Royal Navy from c 1836 to c 1862
In the Med in 1841, shore addresses all in Portsea, Hants.
Found on all censuses save 1841, when wife is living next door to her parents.

Date, place and cause of death
Death cert: D 7 june 1887, borough police court, fanny street. Age 72, naval
pensioner. Cause of death mitral valvular disease; syncope
informant rg marsh present at death
death reported in portsmouth evening news 7 & 8 June
Son Robert was assaulted by neighbours - brought a case which was heard in the Borough Police Court. In the middle of this, Daniel collapsed & died. Reason for the assault? A cat.

Date and place of burial / cremation.
Mile End Cemetery, Portsmouth
Burial no 24918. Died aged 72. Pensioner. Plot 55 - 22 sog. 5' grave.

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
will proved 4 july 1887 by rg marsh & john starks of 115 upper wingfield st
accountant. Mentions all surviving children.

Memorial inscription - if any
If there was one, it did not survive the cemetery's destruction & conversion into a heliport!











beneficiary under will of father dated 30 jan 1850.