A LARGE FORTUNE.
A fortune of £4,000,000 in England awaits settlement. John Taylor died at Birmingham in 1857, leaving his property to two nieces, the Misses Isherwood, of Haslingden, and his nephew, John Seddon, of Black-lane, Clarencestreet, Bolton, and his niece. According to the terms of the will, the testator desired his estate should be put in the administration of the Court of Chancery until 1881, the rents during this period to be applied to payiDg off mortgages, so that the property might pass unencumbered into the hands of the heirs. John Seddon died a year after the large fortune had been bequeathed to him, in the Bolton Workhouse, in the most abject poverty, leaving no issue. The two nieces are still alive, and they, together with the nephews and nieces oi John Saddon, are endeavoring to bring I about a division of the money. Ac i John Seddon had nine brothers and sisters, six of whom married and had families, it may be imagined that the next of kin are pretty numerous, but the share— £2,ooo,oo0 — which would go tc this branch would be a windfall even though it be divided up in many por tioris. They are all in humble circumstances in life, some being in factories The estate will probably be settled in t few months.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7189, 15 June 1885, Page 3
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219A LARGE FORTUNE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7189, 15 June 1885, Page 3
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