Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-20
ARE YOU AN HEIR?
English Estates Waitins
for Their Claim
ants


for Their Claim
ants
Sidney Il. Preston, a LAWYER of
London, England, whose addresses is
Lonsdale Chambers, 2, Chancery
Lane ". c.. has a long article in
the London, England, Times of De.
cember soth. 1904. on .tMiesine Heirs
and Kindred," from which the fol-
lowing extracts aie<taken:
The next-of-kin of MRS. E. o. Col
gate, whose father is said to have
been drowned at sea in 1888 on his
passage to India, are missing. Infor-
nation Ia wanted of the descendants
OF W. and J. Dupre, who were en-
nobled in 1867; and Edward Good
child, of Sudbury, is informed that
his father is dead, and his mother is
anxious to hear from him. The rela.
lions Of John Gordon and Sarah
Doulevy, who were married in Lon
don in 1909, are wanted also the
children of the late Thomas Ditch.
field, farmer. of Gorron, Manchester.
Mary J. Barry, who was married in
1873, can obtain information as to
the estate of her deceased husband :;
Catherine Baillie. who was adopted
by q soldier on the death of her father
in Jamaica in 1885: is sought; a legacy
awaits Edward:Edwards, joiner. last
heard of at Tilbary; and money Is
due to William Evans, alias Bill
Blunt. ~ Of South America in 1884.
Information is urgently wanted of the
aohne family, of England. India.
South Africa, and Australia; also of
". E. Hookham, who is supposed to
have sailed in schooner which was
lost with all hands.
Persons interested in the estate,
amounting to upwards of eS, 900, of
thelate Miss Jane Thomson, of Green
ock, are sought: and Massey Dason, or
Dawson, and his son Henry. late of
Bayswater, are entitled to Is, OOOf.
, The descendants of Elizabeth Brandt,
nee Lear. who was married in 1916,
and of George Helmes, formerly a
traveller for provincial newspaper,
ale inquired for, also persons inter-
ested in the estate of the late Mrs. E.
f. McKenna, who had maniassfo
aliases having been known by eigh-
teen different Names William Pur-
chase, who left ENGLAND in 184S, ssand
who for MANY years has been adver-
tised for, is again sought; Samuel
Smith. last heard of at --Twickenham
in 1879. is entitled: to property ;ssssand
Mrs. Thomas. Atkinson, last heard of
at Sheffield, is one. of the ..missing
next.of-kin of JOSEPH: watts. deceased,
of Australia. The Representatives of
Mary Henry, nee Wright. who was
married in 1884, .and the children of
Thoms sHolder who died In hospital
In 1870. ARE inquired for. The.. next
of'kin Of the late Herbert Campbell,
comedian, '.~whose will cannot be
found, ARE wanted: news Ia required
of W. J. Burnham, who left England
many years ago; and of Barry J. Fox
whose father died in Ireland in 1870.
The heirs of John Taylor. -,-grocer of
Cheapside, who died in 1916; and the
widow of William Turner. a lunatic,
deceased in 1882, are advertised for !;
and money awaits William Mansfield,
late OF Gravesend. Funds in Chancery
stand to the credit of George and
william Cowles, who went " to sea
nearly 100 years ago; and the heir
OF William Keen, of Warford, swho
died in 1881, is sought. Among many
other missing persons may be men,
toned James Ferguson, who was a
railroad stationmaster in 1859; A. T.
Durham, Of New Zealand, in 1878 j:
Arthur johnson, jobmaster, Of Covers
ham; and W. =. Green of Coventry,
last known to have peen performing
with travelling theatre in 1859.
Representatives of shareholders in
the West New Jersey Society, on
VII se stock no dividends have been
paid since 1892, are again sought and
in is notified that lists of persons de-
ceased in New Zealand, of whose
estates administration "a has been
granted to the public trustee, are open
for inspection. Several notices are is-
sued under the Presumption of Life
Limitation, Scotland Act seeking
news of persons supposed to be dead.
These advertisements include the
names of Jane Harvey, or Hazel, OF
Banff, afterwards of Epping. last
heard of in 1850; r. 81. Ramsey OF
auckland, in 1890; --and David Lum.
gair, of South Africa, of whom nc
news has been received since 1895.
Among many persons who have died
in Cape COLONY and Rhodesia leaving