Question: Perhaps they are elderly people who are swindled out of their life savings or beaten by a neighbor or acquaintance.
Perhaps they are elderly people who no longer have their life savings.

Answer: yes

Question: The Company erected its east-coast installations in the year 1642 just down the road from the Dutch, at Mandaraz, pronounced Madras by the British.
The Company put up installations at Mandaraz in 1642.

Answer: yes

Question: Glassware and Pottery
Pottery and glassware.

Answer:
yes