Eve Surname Pages


Bermuda


Missing Persons


Thomas Eve - about 1700

There are references to Thomas Eve who was a ships master in about 1710

1710 - 1718, the "Dragon", a Bermudian-registered vessel, master Thoms Eve, brought 1 Bermuda black slave to Virginia. (Bernhard, 1999, p283)

There is a further reference to a Thomas Eve around this date in the will of William Joell

Joell, William W5:167-169 (reel 706) will dated __ March 1714 proved 10 March 1715/16

In the name of God, Amen, the _ day of March in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and fourteen I William Joell, of Pembrook Tribe in the Somer Islands als Bermuda, mariner, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say first and principally I committ and comend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my creator hoping for mercy pardon of all my sins and to inheritt eternal life in and through and for the sake of my blessed saviour the Lord Jesus Christ my body I committ to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named and as touching such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me I give and dispose thereof as followeth. I will that all my just debts and funerall expenses be paid and discharged. Item. I give to my well beloved wife Susannah Joell my now dwelling house and share of land which I purchased of Thomas Eve and Ben Wood and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging during her widowhood except my stone house first betwixt my house and another Mrs Bridget Joell during her life then to my son William Joell. I also give to my said wife my negro woman Hannah during her life and the ___ her disposall. I also give to my said wife one full third of my personall estate of what nature kind or degree but if my wife should marry then only all my __ and a third of all the rest of my estate and the house and land beforementioned to my son William Joell and heirs lawfully begotten male or female my other share of land I purchased of Charles Morgan I give equally to be divided between my two sons Thomas Joell and John Joell and their heirs male or female lawfully begotten for ever, and my land in Virginia being three hundred and fifty acres more or less lying at Broad Creek I give to my son Richard Joell and his heirs lawfully begotten of his body male or female. And the rest of my personall estate not before given I will shall be equally divided among all my children viz:r William, Richard, Thomas, John, Bradford(?or Stafford), Benjamin, Susannah, Elizabeth, and Solomon except to my daughter Susannah my eastermost chamber during time she remains unmarried and thereof forever and my sons to whom no land is given each of them a negro as they shall choose. My executors I appoint is my well beloved wife Susannah Joell, John Trimingham Esq'r, Sam.l Sherlock Esq'r, Joseph Hutchings and my son William Joell in testimony hereof I have set my hand and seale the day and year first above written. Signed, sealed and devised by the aboves'd Will.m Joell as his will and testament in presence of us. Nathaniel Astwood Benj:a Burton Joseph Stowe Know ye all men by these presents


Unlinked Families

Francis Augustus Eve was born in about 1803. He died on Oct 27 1849 in Nassau where he was the Stipendiary Justice for Bahamas and had been a Member of the Colonial Assembly for 10. He qualified as a doctor in 1825 in Edinburgh. He married Catherine Stowe who was the youngest daughter of the late Thomas Stowe on Feb 23 1828 by Rev J F Lightborn. She died on the 20th March 1883 in her 78 year died at Belleviewmont, Pembroke


George Eve - He was born in about 1806 in Bermuda. He died aged 63 in June 1869 at his Pembroke residence leaving a wife and 8 children. He married Susannah Frances Masters. She was born in 1811 and died age 78 in Pembroke on Oct 19th 1889. They had the following children;
  • Richard Eve - born about 1832. He nEver married. He was known as the “the professor”. He died in Elizabeth General Hospital, New Jersey aged 69 in July 1901. He was a druggist.
  • James Williams Eve – born about 1834. He died about 11 accidently on Sept 27th 1845 while out shooting birds.
  • Jane Masters Eve – born about 1840. She married 1864 William S Richardson in Brooklyn on June 4th 1864.
  • James Henry Eve – born November 2nd 1843. He died on the 26th Oct 1856 of fEver in Pembroke.
  • George Eve – born about 1845. He died on Dec 3rd 1907 in Pembroke. He began his career as a printers apprentice at the Royal Gazette under D M Lee then went to work on the Brooklyn Eagle after which he returned to Bermuda to establish a boot and shoe firm on Reid Street . He became head of the form “George Eve & Co” the proprietors of the London Clothing House.
  • Margaret Eve – born about 1846. She died in August 1889 aged 52 years in Pembroke Bermuda .


Richard Thomas Eve - born unknown. He married Ann Elizabeth. They had two sons and four daughters. Ann Elizabeth dies in Feb 1909 at Spring View, Pembroke;

Children
  • Marie Selena Eve – born about 1870. She married William F Dill at Pembroke on Sept 9th 1891.
  • Harriet Louise Eve – born about 1860. She died on the 31st Dec 1881 age 22 years 7 months
  • Adulice Lusher Eve - 2nd daughter of Richard Thomas Eve and the late Ann Elizabeth Eve died at Spring View on 25th Feb 1909. Death was due to pneumonia. She was educated in London as was a school teacher in Bermuda with her own school.


Horatio Eve - Born unknown. He lived on the Turks Islands and had at least two sons;
  • Alfred Augustus Eve – born about 1880. He married Agnes Adel Tucker who was the second daughter of Richard Tucker, late of Lodge Point, Ireland Island on the April 23rd 1913 at St James Church, Sandys.
  • Archibald Samuel Eve – born about 1880. He married Mary Ann Helena Wynns the third daughter of Albert t Wynns of Grand Turk Island, on Nov 6th 1906 at Wesley Church, Hamilton. They had at least two children. A son born Sept 24th 1907 and a daughter born Oct 22nd 1908 both in Pembroke.


John Foggo Eve - Born unknown. He married Eleanor Clara Gibbs the third daughter of the late Robert T Gibbs of Cardiff and Mrs. Gibbs of Newton South Wales on Dec 14th 1905 at Holy Trinity Church, Hamilton. He had at least three children;
  • Eve daughter – born June 13th 1907 at Orange House, Hamilton
  • Eve daughter – born Aug 19th 1908 at Orange House, Hamilton
  • Eve son – born Aug 22ndh 1911 at Greenhill , Hamilton
Photo of John Foggo Eve


Albert Walshaw Eve- Birth unknown. He was the eldest son of Richard Eve of Bermuda. He married Fannie Elizabeth Harrison daughter of the late Richard Harrison, Magistrate of St Lucia on Feb. 7th 1889 at St Chrysostom's Church, New York City. She died on Feb 18th 1907 in New York leaving two children.
  • Albert Ivan Eve - born Dec 9th 1889. He died aged 3 months on March 7th 1890 in New York.


Extract from the Bermuda Index

  • 1797 Dec 23rd - Adderley Eve of Brackish Pond died aged 26 (born about 1771)
  • 1812 July 11th - Mrs Mary Eve died 6th July
  • 1873 Dec 23rd – Richard Edward Eve died age 77 on Dec 16th Smiths Parish.
  • 1868 April 14th – John Richard Eve age 17 only child of Richard E Eve died of consumption on April 7th at Hilgrow, Smiths parish.
  • 1852 Sept 21 - Sophia Eve age 24 wife of Richard Eve died in Devonshire on Sept 13th.
  • 1820 Aug 5th – John Eve, birth of a daughter in Hamilton on Aug 2nd
  • 1821 Feb 24th – Miss Elizabeth Eve died on the 24th Feb at Spanish Point
  • 1830 Oct 26th – Francis I Eve aged 37 native of Bermuda died at St Vincent on 20th Sept after living there as a merchant for many years. He leaves a brother.
  • 1831 Feb. 22nd – Mrs Susannah Eve aged 66 died in Devonshire on Feb 17th leaving children = 1765
  • 1831 July 19th – Miss Maria Eve died aged 39 in Devonshire on July 16th
  • 1837 Jan 24th – Miss Mary Eve married Joseph Hinson in Smiths pariah on 17th Jan by rev R T Tucker.
  • 1840 Jan 14th – John Eve in his 68th year died at his home Belleviewmont on 13th Jan leaving a widow and several children. He was a Member of the Common Council of Hamilton.
  • 1862 April 1st – Mrs Elizabeth H Eve widow of John Eve aged 74 died Bellevumont on March 25th leaving a son and 2 daughters.
  • 1902 Aug 19th Miss Juliana Stowe Eve age 83 died Aug 18th at Belleviewmont
  • 1845 March 11th – Frances Eve age 44, 4th daughter of Capt Francis Eve died Pembroke March 9th.
  • 1865 June 27th – Henry E Eve in his 27th year died June 20th leaving a widow and child and his aged parents as well as sisters and brothers.
  • 1876 March 14th – Miss Nancy Eve aged 77 died in Pembroke.
  • 1881 Dec 13 – Edwin J Astwood birth of a son on Oct 23 at Porto Plata, San Domingo at the residence of Mrs Astwoods father Capt. James Eve
  • 1891 Dec 15th – Miss Caroline Eve age 85 died in Pembroke on Dec 11th.

The Bermuda Semi-Weekly Journal (1835 - 1839)

Thursday, 15 January 1835 Adv.: For rent dwelling-house belonging to the late Capt. Nathaniel S Dill by John S Eve, Pembroke, Jan 14

Monday, 19 January 1835 Adv.: for rent dwelling house and 8 acres north side of Pembroke, estate of late Capt Nathaniel S Dill, by John S Eve, Pembroke

Compensation Office 17 January 1835

The assistant commissioners of compensation again call attention of all parties intending to claim compensation to the subjoined rules- framed and published by the Board of Commissioners at London, under the 55th Section of the "Act for the Abolition of Slavery", &c- which rules (with exception of the 13th and 14th, upon which an appeal to the King in Council is pending, have been finally adopted, and will be strictly adhered to. The assistant commissioners also recommend all parties to be in readiness to prefer their claims when advertised for- as the period for preferring them is limited to the first day of March. By the order of the Assistant Commissioners Geo. F. Mallory, Sec. RULES

1. That all persons in possession of and claiming compensation for any slave or slaves to be manumitted under the said act, shall prefer their claims before the Assistant Commissioners in the respective colonies in which the said slave or slaves may be registered or settled, within 3 months after the first day of August 1834 (since extended to the 1st day of March, 1835), in the form hereunto annexed, marked B. 2. That every such claim shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by the Registrar of Slaves of the colony in which such claim shall be made, that the number of slaves mentioned in such claim (except any increase by birth since the last registry, as mentioned at the foot of such claim) are duly registered, together with the name or names of the person or persons by whom such slave or slaves shall have been registered. And in the case the property in any slave or slaves shall have been changed, between the last registration and the 1st day of August 1834, the claimant must briefly state his title from the person in whose name the slaves were last registered. 3.... that the Assistant Commissioner shall... make out complete lists of all such claims...and cause the same to be published in the different newspapers... (rules continued including counter claims handling). B. Form of claim for the compensation to be awarded for slaves Slaves Domicile Name of Colony # of Slaves

...in case any children shall have been born between the last registration and the 1st of August 1834 and included in the return, their names, ages, and the names of mothers to be stated at the foot of the claim...


The Bermuda Semi-Weekly Journal (1835 - 1839)

Monday, 9 February 1835 Notice is hereby given that the following claims have been duly lodged in this office, since those published under the date of Feb 5:

Claimants - Domicile - No of Slaves

Eve, Betsy Sally - Pembroke - 5

Eve, Francis I - Devonshire - 4

Eve, Richard E exec -Devonshire -3

Eve, John by Eve, Richard E admin - Devonshire - 4

Eve, Susan and Eve, Mary - Devonshire -3

Eve, Mary - Devonshire -1


The Bermuda Semi-Weekly Journal (1835 - 1839)

Thursday, 12 February 1835 Notice is hereby given that the following claims have been duly lodged in this office, since those published under the date of Feb 7: Claimants - Domicile - No of Slaves

Eve, George -Pembroke -1

Monday, 16 February 1835

Eve, Edward by Foggo, John W exec - Hamilton - 8