A TIPPERARY ROMANCE.
An extraordinary and romantic story olf an unclaimed fortune is (according to ths Irish papers) just now the Bubject of investigation in North Tipperary and quite close to Birr. It appears that just twenty years ago Mrs Helen Blake, nee Sheridan died mteßtate at Kensington, London! leaving personalty of the value of £140,000 and also considerable real estate of all of which the Crown, in the absence of heirs, took possession and advertised for the heirs at law. Many claimants appeared, and a Chmcery suit was instituted, but no one succeeded in establishing a claim to the satisfaction of tha court. Among the intestate's p&p<»» ' vaious > documents were found, iikl*> eating in some respects the intestate's intentions as to the disposal of her property Acting on these, the Lords of the lreaavwy directed their solicitor to pay certain contemplated legacies including one of £1000, to the Right Hon W. E. Gladstone. The balanco of ih& intestate's estate remaius in the hands of thi* Crown, amounting to about £150,000. Ihw intestate, Helen or Nellie, was bom in 1800 between Borrisokane and Cloughjordan. She was a daughter oil John and Susan Sheridan, whose maided name was Nicholson. John was barrack sergeant in the Irish police, and marked Susan in or near Borrisokane about 1788.' Their daughter Helen, when 22 years of 1 age,.' went to Dublin, and attracted by ! her groat beauty an English ' officer, i Captain Robert Dudley Blake, then stationed in Dublin, fell in love with her at first sight. The gallant gentleman's rid* family would not give consent, and a runaway match was decided upon. ' T&ey went to Scotland, where they w«a* married. He rose to be a General in th& Army, and on his death left all his property tohis wife, who had no children. Helen* Blake's sister, Mary Sheridan, married a. ' member of the Irish police who BervecL under her father and against her father* will. This couple left Dublin for London* and emigrated to Australia, whew tha husband rose to be an MJ\ Such i» the story of this fortune as faraßit isknown. There are claimants constantly croppiug up, and before longtlie oise will get a» groat a notoriety as the scramble for tho Coghlan fortune.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10698, 21 August 1896, Page 2
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374A TIPPERARY ROMANCE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10698, 21 August 1896, Page 2
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