Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Index to Heirs-at-Law, Next of Kin, Legatees, Missing Friends, Encumbrancers, and Creditors or Their Representatives in Chancery Suits, Who Have Been Advertised for During the Last 150 Years: Containing Upwards of 50, 000 Names, Relating to Vast Sums of Unclaimed Money; Collected, Compiled, and Alphabetically Arranged
Since the last Edition of this work was published, the Advertisements and Information to which the names relate have been nearly doubled, and a new Edition being called for, the Compiler has endeavoured, at great expense, to make it the most perfect Index of its kind. It contains upwards of names of persons advertised for during the last 150 years in the London Gazette, Times, and numerous other London and Country newspapers, inquiring for Heirs at Law, Next of Kin, Legatees, and others to come forward and prove their claims to property of the aggregate value of many millions sterling.
It is only necessary to mention one or two facts to shew the usefulness of an Index such as this. By a return recently presented to the House of Commons, the amount of the Suitors' Stock and Cash standing in the Court of Chancery is 5s. 6d. Of this sum a large portion awaits claimants. There is also an enormous sum standing unclaimed at the Bank of England in the shape of Unclaimed Dividends. On the National Debt alone the amount was, at the commencement of 1872, nearly Very large sums are also due to the representatives of persons who have died abroad intestate, and the amount of Army and Navy Prize Money due to the Representatives of deceased Soldiers and Sailors is in round numbers A very large proportion of these vast sums can readily be recovered on properly authenticated proofs of relationship being produced. A copy of a Next of Kin advertisement is often sufficient to put inquirers in possession of a direct clue to very large sums of money.
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