John Chase Eversley

1786 - 9th 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.

  1. Son of Edmund Eversley (1752-1823) and Sarah Lucas (1753–?).

  2. 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.

  3. He appears to have married Eleanor Applewhaite 8 July 1814 and to be the grandson-in-law of Thomas Applewhaite senior (q.v.).

  4. 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

  1. 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

  2. Ancestry.com, England and Wales FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 [database online].

  3. Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations (Bentley's estate: q.v.)

  4. 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)

£114 11s 6d
Awardee
£106 16s 1d
Awardee
£4,109 2s 9d
Awardee
£318 9s 6d
Awardee (Trustee)

Associated Estates (4)

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
1820 [EA] - 1853 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Relationships (8)

Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Brother → Sister
Brothers
Brothers
Brothers
Brothers
Son → Father
Other relatives
Notes →
Thomas Applewhaite described John Chase Eversley as his grandson-in-law in his will of 1815 Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados Families pp....

Addresses (1)

Bath, Somerset, South-west England, England