N. Z. HEIRS
TO RICH OIL ESTATE IN U-S.A (United Prgss Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Fell. 28. Dozens of parish registers in Devon have been searched by Mr Monmomith Allred Williams, ol Newport, as attorney for the heirs of Thomas Duck ham, who died in Kentucky in 1851. He was the owner of vast acreages there, trom some ol which [ oil is now being pumped. The title reserved the mineral rights for Duckham, whose estate is reputedly voith millions.
The attorney has discovered that Duckham’s sister Sally bad a daughter, Hester, who married Louis Lee, whose son, Louis Thomas, died in 11)16, at Saint) Aubyn’s, Tama Bay near Auckland, New Zealand. Mr Williams says that, the searches rank Louis Thomas’s brothers’ and sisters’ descendants amongst the claimants.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 6
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