HEIR TO ENGLISH ESTATE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1938, Page 5

HEIR TO ENGLISH ESTATE.

MR. J. DOWDESWELL TO RETURN TO AUSTRALIA. VISIT TO ENGLAND LATER. Having spent three weeks in Dunedin, during which he and his wife experienced a most enjoyable holiday, Mr. Jack Duwdeswell, heir to an English estate which lie has never seen, boarded the Mannganni last evening at Dunedin to proceed to Wellington, sir. and Mrs. Dowdcswell will-spend a ween in Wellington and then will set olf ! Homeward to Melbourne by the -Vannganui. Moth intend to sail tor England after putting their affairs in order in j Melbourne. j .Mrs. .Vi ay Henderson, the mother j with whom he was united after 42 .years, accompanied him to the Maunganui to bid him larewell. I a , artunia eiy she was not sufficiently well to und.6l* take the voyage (i Australia wile her son and his wife.

To-lose all trace of her son when lie was a hoy of seven years, and have him return to her after 411 years, a married man .with a family of six children, was last month the happy experinenee of Nurse Mav Henderson, Dunedin, who is now ?0 years of age. Mr. Jack Dovvdeswell was the long lost son. Nurse Henderson was a member of a .vaudeville troupe just on 50 years ago, and considered the environment of the 'stage not fitting for a boy of tender years. She left him in the care of a Mr, Beaumont, then resident in Dunedin, until she was able to have him with her and direct his fortunes from a more suitable home. In her absence Mr. Beaumont departed with the child and took up residence in Melbourne, with the result-' that Mrs. DowdesweU (as Nurse Henderson then was) was I unable to discover the address of Mr. Beaumont, lost all touch with her son, who was' heir to a substantial sum on ■eaching his majority. " ,