St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-07-17
AN IRISH CLAIMANT.


Frank Floods Travels From America to
the Old Sod in Quest OF Fortune.
The Central News Dublin CORE
spondent had an interview with Mr..
Frank Flood, the American, who has
travelled to Ireland to establish his
claim to valuable estates in County
Kilkenny. According to the claimant,
King Charles II. granted the estates to
distinguished soldier, Colonel Will
lam Warren and had issue, Henry
John and Anne. His sons died without
issue. Anne married Major Francis
Flood, an English officer residing on a
neighboring estate at Callan. He took
the Warren property in right of his
wife, and was the founder of the Flood
family in Ireland. There were issue of
the marriage seven sons and one daugh-
ter. The eldest son, Warren Flood.
became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland,
and by his marriage with Miss White
side. had three children, of whom the
survivor was the statesman Henry
Flood, the contemporary of Chatham,
Pitt and Grattan. The great Harry
Grattan, as he was called, married
Lady Beresford. daughter of the Earl
of Tyrone, and died without issue.
By his will in 1890, subject to life
estate to his wife, he devised the estates
of Trinity College, Dublin, in fee to
establish professorship Of the native
Erse or Irish language; but the then
Lord Chancellor Manners and Lord
Chief Justice Downes held that no legal
estate passed to the College, there being
no statute enabling person to devise
to bodies corporate, and that tho gift
over to charitable uses was not such
that court of equity ought to execute.
Thus Henry's line becoming extinct,
the property became vested in John
Flood, founder of the family.
John Flood made his will in 1907, de.
vising the lands to Lord Doneraile and
Richard Aldworth, in trust to the use OF
his eldest son John for life with re.
mainder entail male. with similar
remainder respecting his other chill
dren, Robert and Elizabeth, fail
ing which to the use of his
own right heirs forever, and to
and for no other use, intent, or pur-
pose whatsoever. John died in 1888
without issue, and anticipated that his
brother Robert and sister Elizabeth
would also die without issue. He di-
rected the lands to be sold. Robert
predeceased him, and Elizabeth, who
succeeded to the property, died in 1857
without issue. She assigned the lands
to William Lloyd, the defendant in
the action brought by the present
claimant, conditionally on his assum-
ing the surname of Flood and the
Flood family arms. 1t is also al
legged that the defendant bought the
lands, under the power of sale in Johns
will, from the trustees. The defendant
is graduate Of Cambridge, and mar
ried Miss Hanford, daughter of an En-
glish Baronet, through whom he de-
rives estates in Worcestershire. He
accordingly took the surname of Han
ford, so that his name is given in the
writ with aliases, the last being William
LLOYD. Hanford Flood, the claimant,
maintains that on the death of Eliza
beth the rightful heir was his brother
Henry, lunatic, who died in America
on the 4th of May, 1881, without issue,
leaving the claimant, his next brother.
and heir at law. Asked why he did
not assert his claim before, he said he
left Ireland in his boyhood during the
famine period and that family affairs
induced him to return to Ireland in
1875, when he obtained his own bap-
tismal and his fathers marriage certifi-
cate, but he could do nothing during
his brothers lifetime.
In August last he again visited Ire.
land, and ever since has been engaged
in searching registries and hunting up
information. He has served notice on
the tenants cautioning them against
paying rent to the defendant. On the
other hand, the defendant put the
claimant upon proof of title and pleads
the statute of limitations. He has re-
tanned the Attorney General, Mr..
Walker. The claimant says he is
sanguine of winning on his documentary
proofs, which are of considerable vol
ume.-GlasgosO Daily Nail.