Charles Cheveley

Clerk of the Bank of England, awarded the compensation for 14 enslaved people in British Guiana as the trustee of the marriage settlement of John Castelfranc Cheveley and Frances Barry.

1. Charles Cheveley was the son of Richard Dodson Cheveley and Marie Letice Castlefranc, and brother of John Castelfranc Cheveley. John Castelfranc Cheveley married Frances Barry, the daughter of a British Guiana slave-owner, and himself spent time in British Guiana in the early 1820s. In 1881 Charles Cheveley retired clerk of the Bank of England aged 81 born Messing Essex was living with wife Charlotte at Chantry Villas Balham Road Streatham.

2. Will of Charles Cheveley of Chantry Villas who died 06/09/1894 proved 20/10/1894, effects £10595 16s 6d

T71/886 British Guiana no. 1917A. T71/1259 counterclaim from Charles Chiveley [sic] of City of London, clerk in the Bank of England, trustee under marriage settlement of John C Chevely and Frances Chevely, born Barry.

1. C.C. Thornburn, No Messing: the story of an Essex Man. The autobiography of John Castelfranc Cheveley I, 1795-1870 Volume One (Spennymoor, Co. Durham, The Memoir Club, 2001) p. 8; 1881 census online. Mr Cliff Thornburn very kindly made available to us extracts from the manuscript of the second volume of the autobiography of John Castelfranc Cheveley, including an account of Cheveley's years in British Guiana 1821-1826. This has now been published as No Messing: the story of an Essex Man. The autobiography of John Castelfranc Cheveley I, 1795-1870 Volume Two (Chichester: Crosswave Publishing, 2012).

2. National Probate Calendar 1894.