GIRL WIDOW'S FORTUNE.
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD WIFE. Miss Fanny Ward, the well-known actress (Mrs. Jack Dean in private life) has arrived in London from America for the purpose, among other things., of looking after the interests of her daughter, Dorothy Bsrnato, the girl widow 01 Captain Isaac E. W. Barnato, R.A.F., a son of the late Mr. Barney Barnato, the South African diamond merchant.
Captain Barnato married his wife on October 13, 1917, when she was 17 and at school, and he was 23. They had been boy and girl lovers for years, but their marriage was very suddenly arranged by the bridegroom and came as a surprise to their friends. Captain Barnato, who during the war, among other gallant acts, led a bombing expedition over Constantinople, died last October in London of inflaenza. The total property which he left 'wae proved at £660,997. Be queathing small annuities to various members of his family and others and £5( to each of his two cousins, he left the residue of his property in trust: " To pay the income to my widow until a child ehall attain the ago of 21 years, or, being a daughter, to marry under that age, and then as to one-half thereof for Mrs. Barnato."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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206GIRL WIDOW'S FORTUNE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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