LEGACY NOT TOUCHED
OLD SWEETHEART'S GIFT Fifty vears ago a Macclesfield man proposed marriage to a. young silk weaver there, but was rejected. W disappointed lover died, leaving £IOO to the girl. The storv oi the romance was revealed in the will published the other day of Miss Mary Brown, who died several weeks ago in 3 Macclesfield almshouse. She had put her £lu legacy n the bank, had never touched It. and the accumulated interest had brought the amount to £250- . She left £240 of i to a life-long friend, Mis! Beatrice Laurie, wl. ■ is a housekeeper to a Macclesfield family Miss Laurie told a reported- " Although Miss Brown rarely spoke, of her broken romance, she had mentioned it to hie. The man's name Was Davies, but why she would not marry him I never knew."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23692, 27 December 1938, Page 2
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