MONEYS IN CHANCERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 9

MONEYS IN CHANCERY

A CHRISTCHURCH CLAIM If a Christchurch tramway man sue* coeds in a claim for moneys in Chancery. 10 Now Zealand members of the family and a branch in California, will benefit from a fortune running into over seven figures. Mr Clarence Pentecost, of 59 Wyon ►Street, Linwood, is the man contemplating taking action for the recovery of the money. A huge fortune was amassed by a Mr John Meek, an Englishman. who died in 1811. On his death the money went, into Chancery, said Mr Pentecost, when interviewed. In .1848 a William Pentecost married a granddaughter of the millionaire. Mr Meek. He camp to New Zealand in .1852 in the Duke of Portland with a family of two, of whom the father of Mr Clarence Pentecost, Mr Isaac Henry Pentecost, was one. The second son was at one time a well-know n cabman of Christchurch. He had a family of three. Mrs 1. H. Pentecost now resides with her son, Clarence, at Wyon Street. Mr Pentecost received a letter on Thursday from the American branch of the family, Mrs George Hayden, of Porterville, California, asking for papers to substantiate the claim with a view to taking proceedings for the recovery of the estate from Chancery. The interest on what in the first instance was a huge estate must by this time have reached an enormous figure.