AN IRISH ROMANCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13645, 13 July 1908, Page 7

AN IRISH ROMANCE.

J,- ' - HEIR TO TENS OF THOUSANDS.

By consent of all the parties in the "great Irish heir-at-law case, Mrs. Joel Barrett-, The Cot, Branscombe,' South 'Devon, is declared heiress-at-law of the landed property of the late Miss Magan,, valued at over £IO,OOO a .year.

The case which was to come before the Court at Dublin, has been settled out of Court. . Captain Arthur Magan, who had been regarded as heir of the propertry since Mios Magan's death in October 1905; has admitted Mrs Bartlett's title. He however, receives £20,000 charged on the property.

Mrs. Bartlett, who is 90 years of fige, . has been found to be- the daughter :ol Arthur Magan, who was born in 1794, while Captain Magan is a descendant of a younger brother, Thomas Tjlson Magan, who was born in 1798. . A suit is still pending for the administration of-the late Miss Magan's personal property, which is estimated at about £BO,OOO. : "r; Miss Magan left her property to Ijer heir or heir-at-law. She was eccentric and her will was not found for soma time after her dejith, when it was .discovered. in: a heap of rubbish at her residence. The circumstances under which Mrs. .Bartlett was discovered,, and proved to be heiress-at-law reads like a chapter out o| a romance. The Master of the; Rolls had directed that- a search should bs made for the ne*t.pf-kin of Miss Magan, The investigation had to start with, the Arthur Magan, who died jn 1808, and was the father of both Arthur Magan arid Thomas Tilson' Magan, through whom the rival parties claimed- - Tt was found that Arthur, junior, married and had one child, but it was be lived that , this child, a girl, was long since dead, . „.. ■: • V, ,' ()n February 3,, 1840, the daughter Georgina had married at St. -Nicholas Church, Brighton, a, surgeon of the Royal -3Cavy, named John Henry Brummell. They were divorced the same year. .The records were, searched for evidence, of tfte. death of Mrs. Brummell (Georgina jfagaji), (jut there was no record of it in S&merset House. After TO uc h, searching of records, ho\veyer, the - old lady wa,s traced to Pevon.