John Chase Eversley

Profile & Legacies Summary

1786 - 9^th Oct 1853

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident in the 1830s but dying in Britain in 1853. Part of an Anglo-Barbadian nexus: his daughter Mary married (the much older) John Sheafe Gaskin (q.v.) at St Marylebone in 1856.

Son of Edmund Eversley (1752-1823) and Sarah Lucas (1753–?).
Death of John Chase Eversley registered Q4 1853 at Bath.

When Mary Eversley married John Sheafe Gaskin in London, 1856, John Chase Eversley was described as a solicitor. See notes on Gaskin.
He appears to have married Eleanor Applewhaite 8 July 1814 and to be the grandson-in-law of Thomas Applewhaite senior (q.v.).
John Chace Eversley was also one of the trustees of the marriage settlement of Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Mary Garnett (they married in St Michael, Barbados, in 1816).

Sources

Ancestry family tree; but NB that and an alternative family tree suggests that the father was born in 1748 and died in 1823 and that the mother was unknown: see here
Ancestry.com, England and Wales FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 [database online].
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations (Bentley's estate: q.v.)
St Lucia claim no. 770.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Name in compensation records

John Chase Eversly

Spouse

Eleanor Applethwaite (1795-1873)

Children

3 daughters and 1 son: Eleanor (1817-1879), John (1819- ); Mary (1821- ); Sarah Louise (1825- )

Occupation

Plantation owner

Associated Claims (4)

Associated Estates (4)

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