A THUMPING LEGACY.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 21, 3 June 1885, Page 2

A THUMPING LEGACY.

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 Hnslingilon) and his nephew (John Seddon, of Black lane, Clarence street, Bolton), and his niece. According to the terms of the will, the testator desired that his estate should be put in the administration of the Court of Chancery until 1881, the rents during this period to be applied to paying off mortgages, so that the property might pass unencumbered into the hands oflhe 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 issne. The two nieces are still alive,and they, together with the nephews and nieces of John Seddon, are endeavoring to bring about a division of the money. As John Seddon had nine brothers and sisters, six of whom married ami had families, it may be imagined lh.it the next o f kin are pretty numerous, but the share—£2,ooo,ooo —which would go to this branch would be a windfall even though it be divided up in many portions. They are all in humble circumstances in life, some being in factories. The estate will probably be settled in a few months.