CLAIM TO HUGE FORTUNE AND TITLE
TWO YOUNG SCOTCHMEN,
Dunedin, January 7. Two Dunedin men, Adam Fairholm Scott, a storeman in Bond and Neil’s and Fair-holm Scott, a motorman, are interested in the claims of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Annie Fairholm of Tannochside, Scotland, to the fortune, which is said to include £l,000,000 and the marquisate of Lauriston Castle, overlooking the Firth and Forth, a brewery and distillery in Edinburgh, coal mine property in Lancashire, Fifeshire, and Northern Ireland. Recent mails have brought them the news of the claiming of this wealth by their grandmother. It is stated that she has conclusive proofs of direct descent from the family originally holding the title and money namely, the Laws oi Cramond Bridge, Lauriston, and Edinburgh. But until now they had not known that the fortune was lying unclaimed. In an interview Adam Scott stated he expected to he recalled to Scotland soon. He produced a letter from his mother with an interview in a Glasgow newspaper giving particulars of the fortune, which apparently includes £36,000 amassed by an earlier descendant in Australia.
A'djcun Scott arrived in Dunedin in 1922 and his brother a year ago.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3584, 8 January 1927, Page 3
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194CLAIM TO HUGE FORTUNE AND TITLE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3584, 8 January 1927, Page 3
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