Jane Mary Cosens

Profile & Legacies Summary

1818 - ????

Biography

Daughter and heiress of Grace Cosens (nee Thomson) (q.v.), who died when Jane Mary Cosens was a minor.

In 1861 Jane M. Cosens aged 43 was living with Jane Lane (her aunt, although not described as such) in Clifton, Bristol. In 1881 she was living at 43 Belvidere Villas Penge, lodger, aged 63 'Income from dividends'. A woman of the same name died at Favria in Italy in 1904.

Sources

1861 and 1881 censuses online; Ancestry.com, UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 for Jane Mary Cosens RG 35: Miscellaneous Foreign Deaths, 1830-1921 Piece 37: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns, 1902-1904 [database online].

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Heir

Spring Valley [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Under the will of her mother, Jane Mary Cosens was to inherit a one-third share in the Spring Valley estate in St Thomas-in-the-East subject to the interest of her aunt Jane Thomson for the latter's life or until she married: Jane Thomson married in 1825. Jane Mary Cosens does not appear among the claimants for slave-compensation for the estate in the 1830s, but her uncle by marriage Henry Bowyer Lane in 1832 gave some details of her borrowing from John Mackie & Co. against her share in the estate.