OIL PROPERTY IN AMERICA.
SEARCH FOR CLAIMANTS. {BSITBU AiSOCTATIOBr—4ST BUSCTMO rtotOiUPH-HIOPSMSHT.) (Received March Ist, 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, February 28. Dozens of parish registers in Devon had been saafehed by Mr Alfred- Williams, of Newport, as fittofbey for the heirs of Mr Thomas Duckham, who dies in .Kentucky in 1851, tho owner of Vast acreages,, from feOmo of .which oil is iiow being pumped. ITie title reserved the mineral rights fot- Mr Dttekham, whose estate is, reputedly worth millions. x „ 3 . The AttOfUey discovered that Mr Duckham's riite*, fiftlly, hud a daughter, I Hester, who married Lotiis Lee, .whose son, Louis Thomas) died in 1916 at St. Aubyns, Ifarua Bay, near Auckland. Mr Williams say* that the Jfeafches .rank Louis Thomas ftfld his brothers and sisters' doscendtwts amongst the iolaimantS. V:
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 9
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130OIL PROPERTY IN AMERICA. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 9
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