CLAIM TO A PEERAGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 4 February 1918, Page 5

CLAIM TO A PEERAGE

THE CASE DISMISSED. Australian—N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, February 2. The defence in the Waterford legitimacy suit was a total denial of plaintiff's allegation. Witness 'jswore that the son of the fifth Marquess of Watei'ford was still-born in March, 1873, and was buried at Brampton Cemetery. The body was later buried in the mother's grave in Ireland. Plaintiff suggests that the body of another child was placed in the coffin. ) The ,1-egister tit Holbmn workhouse, which was produced, showed the birth of the child John Tooth, alleged by the defence to be plaintiff. The case was dismissed, and the court decided that claimant was not the child of Lady Waterford. (At the opening of the case George Ueresford, or George Tooth, gardener, asked lor a declaration that lie is the lawful son of the fifth Marquis of Waterford, who married Florence Vivyan after a divorce action in 1870. The respondents allege that Beivsford is the natural son of Georgina Tooth, and was born in a Holborn workhouse. Georgina Tooth was a sister of Mrs A ivyan s cook.)