CLAIMS TO FORTUNE
ENGLISH ESTATES WORTH £20,000,000. The claim by a Christchurch (N.Z.) family named Tabley to an estate in Lancashrire (England) worth £20,000,000, with a yearly income of £1,000,000 has led to a rival claim by Mrs. Collins, of Gourlay Street, Balaclava, Melbourne’. She states that she and eight others of the Tabley family are great grandchildren of John Tabley, who in 1801 acquired lands in Lancashire. The lands embraced 2 estates, which comprised valuable coal deposits at Middlesbro. Mrs. Collins, who is a cousin of Judge Williams, is the eldest greatgrand ’daughter. It is stated that the estate was obtained by William Ford, who was her great grandfather’s uncle, and her great grandfather was the next-heir-in-law. The estate was supposed to have been taken form John Tabley by fraud in 1807. Another family claims one-fifth of the estate through a Miss Tabley, and that family has commercialised its inheritance by issuing bonds of £lO and £5 in West Australia and in a certain Victorian town, one of the conditions of redemption being that each £5 bond I should have redemption value of £5OO 1 and each £lO bond a value of £lO.OO.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 6
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194CLAIMS TO FORTUNE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 6
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