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Re: Heir Hunters
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 16 August 17 13:26 BST (UK) »
I wonder if they'll feature the company that contacted my family last week - subsequently found they were barking up the wrong (family) tree, but I think I've found a living relative for the right deceased.

I think they cover only a few HH firms/business.  I guess it depends on area..

Well done Liz, your FH 'nose' seems to have possibly Sussed it, at no charge I guess :)

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Census information is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Squire/Thomas/Davies/Gibbons/Mordecai/Bowen/Lewis/Rees/Williams/Jones/Llewellyn/Morgan - Glamorgan
Lewis - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Lloyd/Jones - Denbigh/Salop
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
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Re: Heir Hunters
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 16 August 17 13:30 BST (UK) »
the company that contacted my family last week - subsequently found they were barking up the wrong (family) tree, but I think I've found a living relative for the right deceased.

Well done (& nice of you) Lizzie & don't be surprised if they are in touch with you in the future!  :-\

Just goes to show how the 'Experts' can sometimes get it wrong!!!

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Heir Hunters
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 16 August 17 13:37 BST (UK) »
I have told the HH they have wrong family but not that I have possibly traced the right family. I don't think they deserve it for the ridiculous mistakes they made on my family tree. But I think I should tell someone. I have got address of the descendant from electoral register, or should I go to one of the bigger HH companies. I doubt if a big estate, the deceased was a spinster and died in a care home in 2008.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Heir Hunters
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 16 August 17 13:45 BST (UK) »
should I go to one of the bigger HH companies.

Sounds an idea, a firm who know what they're doing  ::)

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"