Elysium

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Associated People (11)

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
1801 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Receiver
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Not known
1817 [EA] - → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Receiver
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Not known

In possession of Louis Bazalgette's attorney, almost certainly as a result of a mortgage held by Bazalgette, whose son Evelyn was awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on the estate as mortgagee-in-possession.

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1839 [EA] - → Not known

Associated Claims (1)

£4,596 15S 11D

Estate Information (27)

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1798
[Name] Elysium  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St George as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Elysium Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Hevenongham overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 212-213
1800
[Name] Elysium Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Richard Cosens as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 134
1801
[Name] Elysium Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Heirs of John Cosens Esq deceased. Account filed by Charles Worsfold as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 209
1803
[Name] Elysium Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of John Cosens Esq deceased. Account filed by Richard Cosens as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 111
1807
[Name] Elysium  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper, shingles and hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to John Cosens Esq. deceased and under the management and direction of George Harrison Cosens and Charles Orr Esqs. as receivers. Account filed by Stephen Danders as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 73-74
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to G. H. Cosins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 335(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to G. H. Cosins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to George H. Cosens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to George H. Cosens deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 310(Tot) 177(F) 133(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver.

 
T71/158 216
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium Estate  
 

In the possession of James Simpson as attorney to Williiam Lambie the Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/159 53
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 316(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 308(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot) 178(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Elysium Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Attorney to John Simpson and Thomas Fleming joint Owners.

 
T71/160 464
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium Estate  
 

In the possession of Willaim Lambie as attorney of John Simpson & Thomas Fleming.

 
T71/161 298
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lambie Esquire as Attorney of Louis Bazalgetter (sp?) Esquire.

 
T71/162 369
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Elysium  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to William Lambie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Attorney of Evelyn Bazalgette Esquire.

 
T71/163 254
1839
[Name] Elysium  
[Size] 1155  
 

Registered to James Swaby.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.