UNCLAIMED MONEYS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 20

UNCLAIMED MONEYS.

! TO TEE EDITOR. Sir, —During' the current year, an unusually large number of advertisements have appeared in British, Australian, American, and New Zealand newspapers for missing beneficiaries, next-of-kin, legatees, etc., and a selection of some of the principal of these may prove of interest, and of possible benefit to some of your readers. In each case the persons named, or their representatives, are known to have emigrated to or were last heard of in Australia or New Zealand. I shall be pleased to supply further particulars to any of your readers who may think themselves interested. Prank Adair, son of James Adair; the representatives of Eliza Maria Allen, daughter of Lewis Allen; John Banwell, son of Charles Banwell; Henry Barton, son of Walter Barton, of Hadlow, Kent, and who emigrated to Australia in 1835; the next-of-kin of Prances Barton, formerly of Kent; Hugh Bea ton, formerly of Manfred Station, Balranaid, K.S.W.; Archibald William Bradfield Bell; Jacob Alexander Beil, or children ; Charles Lawson Bonham, born Islesworth, England; Ernest Benson, son of Thomas Benson, a cigar merchant; Iloratio Benwell, left England for Australia about 1860; Theodore Bezer, last heard oi in New Zealand in 1912; Mrs Fanny Bigs worth, nee Lee; Prank Blacklock, son of Richard Blaeklock; Edmund John Boyd, born 1837; John Joseph Bradshaw; Lucy Bradshaw, nee Jenkins, or representatives; John and Michael Brennan, formerly of Skehana, Kilkenny; John Charles Broughton; Edwin John Brown or Tyler, formerly of Kentish Town; the widow or children of William Brown, formerly of Rand wick; William Brown, formerly a baker of Brsibane; Alfred Ernest Buckmaster; Charles Isaac Burrows, at Ballarat between 1350 and 1860, a son of Charles and Eliza Burrows, or representatives; Mary Caiman or M‘Caiman; George Carter, formerly a blacksmith of Melbourne; Andrew Chidgey, formerly of Bishops' Lydeard Co., Somerset; representatives of John Conacher, son of Thomas Conachcr; Edward and Kate Costerley; Hugh Cowan, formerly of Oban; Edward

Co wham, who arrived in Australia in 1884; Teresa Cullen, daughter of Michael and Mary Cullen, and last heard of at Boulder City, W.A.; Andrew and Thomas Cunningha in, or children ; George Harold Cusworth, son of Ann Bailey ©usworth, or representatives; James Daley, born Harcourt, Victoria, in 1872 ; the representatives of John Delaney, formerly of Tasmania; George Dempsey; Frederick Samuel, and James Dendle, born Barnstaple, Devon; the brothers and sisters of George Dodd, formerly of Geelong and Carlton; George Downer, who left England for Australia in 1894; Mr and Mrs Ronald Dudley; John and Theophilus Dumaresc;; William Dunkin, born India, 1826, and who married Sophia Elliott, or representatives; Richard Edmonds ; Ellen Eleigh; the father, mother, brothers, or sisters of Thomas Ellis, late a drover of Richmond, Queensland; Frank Harcourt Ratton Evans; Emily Flowers, nee Pearce; James Dunn Frazer; David Flynn, formerly _of Cumberland; Victoria and Agnes Frisby; Samuel Gcrrard, formerly of Chester, England; Samuel William Gibbs; Arthur Gordon Goodrich; James Logan Gray; Mary Clarke Haddon, John Charles Haddon, Adam Clarke Haddon, Elizabeth Clarke Haddon, all of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and who emigrated to Queensland; the representatives of Isabella Flage; the father, mother, and brothers of Wesley Rainsford Hand; Mrs James Hanson, or family, formerly of Greenock, Scotland; Herbert Edward Harris, late of Sydney ; Captain W. B. Harrison; John Heir, who in 1837 resided at Botany and later on at Glen Rock, Waverley, X,S. V. ; Thomas Charles Ileithersay; Edward Higginson, son of Mrs H. G. Higginson; -Holt, or Tomholt, Frances Amelia, _ neice of the late Major George Deane ; A iiliarn Ifo.vlett, soil of John How. left; Fanny W hitall Hughes, nee Siggs, who married Richard Hughes, a miner of Cavvarral at Rockhampton in 1888, or her husband_ or children ; Robert John .Hunt, a son of Frederick and Emma Hunt, and last heard of in Western Australia in 1905; Matthew Falconer Ihmt.-r; William Hunter, who emigrated from Plymouth about 1848, a son of V illiam Hunter, or representatives; Henry Ingram; Martin Irwin, a native of II ic-klow; Susie and Albert Jennings, widow and son respectively of William Jennings; Alexander Jack, born Largs Fife in 1828, and emigrated to Australia 50 or 60 years ago, or representatives; Gilbert Carswell Johnstone; Winifred Johnstone, formerly Thorpe; J. A. Jones, who left Lyttelton, New Zealand, about 28 years ago; the relatives of Mrs Sarah Kav, wife of E. J. Kay, formerly of Sydney ; Henry Kerr, at Ballarat, Victoria, in 1894. and Malcolm Charles Kerr, sons of Joseph Hooper Kerr; James Kerr, son of Thomas Kerr, ‘ of Ayrshire; Henry Kirkham, a cattle dealer of Southport, Co. Lancaster, who married in 1857 and emigrated shortly after with his wife to Melbourne, or his”wife or children : Lucas Kobelt, son of Johann Jacob Kobelt, born 1849 in Switzerland, and emigrated to Queensland in 1878; Esther Larkin, nee Iligham: the next-of-kin of John Laurence, formerly of Dublin; Annie Lemmix,_ daughter of Captain Lemmix; the next-of-kin of Asher Levy, a coooanut merchant in London, born about 1864; Maurice Lonesney, Charles William Maddox and Cecilia Agnes Maddox; Miss Ruby Manley; Murdo William MacKenzie, last heard of in Melbourne in 1875; Arthur Freeland Mason, arrived Australia, I 860; Michael Ambrose and Owen Martin ; Rudolph Mayer, of Basle, Switzerland, late of Renark, S.A.; Thomas M'Crackcn, son of William M'Craoken, who went to reside in New Zealand prior to 1880; Thomas and Murray Coventry M Fie. sons of Thomas MT'ie • Alfred ' Edward M'f.ennan, last heard of in Queensland : Robert Fulton Miller, son of James and Janet Fulton Millar, or, if dead, his widow or children; Michael James Moionev, or his wife, Bridget, who left Worcestershire for Sydney in 1878; John Thomas and William Thomas Morgan, sons of John William Morgan; Mrs Mary Murgatroyd, nee Middleton ; Catherine M-Queen Murray’, formerly employed with the late Reverend Arthur Cass, of Tasmania; Maria Mountjoy, who married Thomas Pickett; Edith Sarah Xatcott, daughter of James ICateott; Bridget Naughton,, daughter of James and Mary Naughton ; James Nesbitt, son of James and Margaret Nesbitt. George Newman, son of James and Mary Newman; John. Bartholomew, and Louis O’Brien, three children of John and Margaret O’Brien, and who emigrated to Australia some, time prior to 1878; Patrick O’Brien, a shearer and drover, last heard of in 1390; Patrick Francis O'Neill, son of Patrick and Ellen O’Neill, nee Nowlan; William Orr, left Ireland for

Australia ab;,ut 1835: tho clrildren of Mary Ann Packer, formerly of Si.reu.tham, Surrey; Jiina Mary Papworth ; Andrew Peacock, son .Tames Peacock, and formerly of Dundee; William sand Kobert Pettigrew, who left Scotland for Australia about the year 1859; tho representatives of George Pickering, formerly of New Zealand; the children of P-ien Pickersgill, nee Roberts; Thomas Pickett, who married Maria Mountjoy, an<l was hist heard of in Queensland; the children of Mrs Julia Powell, formerly of Parramatta. N .S.V, . ; James and Jane Prent ■■ ■. _ ate •-i B isbane ; B« Judge Purefoy, a willow, who about lb-73 resided at Elmbank terrace, East Melbourne; Mowbray illie Rain, son of William Rain, and last heard of in New Zealand; Raymond Branstone Reddish ; the heirs of Matthew Regan, or O'Regan, formerly of New Zealand; Ellen Theresa Rice, formerly Mahoney; Richard Richards, brother of Eliza Richards, afterwards Coe; William Richardson, formerly Paisley road, Glasgow ; George TunnoclilTe Roberts, son of Fanny Roberts, and last heard of in West Australia in 1908 ; James Stuart Robertson (otherwise known as James Stuart), son of James Stuart Robertson and Hannah, his wife, reo Luby; Miss Florence Emmeline Robinson, who loft England for Australia in 1890; James William Robinson, formerly of Yorkshire, and later of Dubbo, N.S.W. ; Mrs Barbara Ronald, wife of a baker in Melbourne in 1838; Thomas Rooke, last hoard of at Eivorpool if living m November. 1918: Frank Rossiter, Ron of Harriett Rossiter, nee Dunn, in Melbourne hi 1883; the Rev. Richard Warren Row. formerly of Torrington, Exeter, England; the next-of-kin of Janies winds, born in London, and who emigrated to New Zealand; Arthur Schmidt, son of Carl August Richard Schmidt; John and James Shaw, sons of John Shaw; Thomas Shipley, father of Henry Shipley; Fanny Whitall Siggs. who emigrated to Australia from England about 30 years ago, and married after her arrival and had issue ; the next-of-kin of James Dunbar Smith, formerly of Ballina ; Janies Douglas M'Pherson Smith, or relatives; the children of William Spence, formerly of Ivirbuster, Rersay, Orkney, and later of Melbourne; William Stewart, son Ot Matthew Stewart, late a fireman; Stubley. Mary Elwood, nee Smith; Edith Swift, last heard of in Australia; James Thomas Swords, who was at Henty, N.S.W., about 1910; Alfred Danson Xait, born Liyerpool and emigrated to Australia; the widow or children of V. illiam Tatham. late of Wagga ;

Bessie Baylor, wife of Charles Phillip lay lor; Nurse . Taylor, who was formerly a nurse near Bristol. England ; Jane Thompson. rreo Den die : Frances Amelia Tom-holt or Holt or Wilson, nee Henderson or Deane, residing formerly at Old South Head road, Waverley, N.S.W. ; William Trembath, formerly of Cornwall; Edwin John Tyler, a son of Charlotte Tyler, who married Thomas Brown; William John Edmund Wandorspar, son of Major William Charles \ anderspar; Robert Louis Veitcli. who left England for Australia in 1891; Miss C. M. Wilkinson; Jeremiah Walsh, son of John Walsh, and who left Limerick for Australia between 1861 and 1864 ; Robert West, son of Susan .West, and who left E n gland for Australia in flip Tear 1882 and was last heard of at Harden. N.S.W. ; Annie Whelan, widow of Edward Whelan; John Mackie Williamson, a farmer, formerly of East Taieri. Otago, N.Z. ; Edwin TT. Wilma (sometimes known as “Bert” Wilma), formerly an advertising agent at Portland. Seattle, and San Eranciseo, Hnited States of Amerirn : and Jane Elizabeth Wilson, wife of James Wilson.—l am. ete..

Titos. W. Lloyd Lloyd’s Unclaimed Money Offices. Melbourne. December, 1920.