200 CLAIMANTS TO FABULOUS ANGLOAMERICAN FORTUNE
(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 13. Two hundred claimants to the “Edwards millions,” a fabulous Anglo-American fortune said to amount to £50,000,000 in Britain alone, crowded the miners’ hall at Merthyrtydfil, Wales, during the week-end to plan further action to establish their rights.
They have to prove that they are the descendants of William Edwards, an eighteenth-century stonemason, who emigrated to the United States. In all the fortune is stated to be worth £260,000,000. The American part of the'fortune is said to have accrued for more than a century from the estate, “on which New York is now built.”
The meeting was told that new documents had been discovered in pursuit of the American claim proving the Edwards family’s title to money held by the law authorities and to land extending 27 miles from Cardiff to Merthyrtdyfil. The meeting discussed a . High Court action to prove their claims.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1949, Page 5
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