In the news today: Servant’s descendants offered fortune

[PrueM]

Anyone got any COLQUHOUNs in the family?  You might be interested in this story:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/62533.html

Here's a bit of the article: 
The hunt is on for the descendants of a humble Scottish servant who have been offered a share of a £5m fortune.
James Cullen Colquhoun served in the prominent Dundas household in Edinburgh in the 1800s before travelling to Canada with his master's son, who acquired a valuable collection of native American artefacts.
The Dundas Collection was passed down the generations and is to be auctioned later this year.
However, Simon Carey, the great-grandson of the Rev Robert Dundas and the current owner of the artefacts, wants Colquhoun's descendants to profit from the faithful servant's devotion.
Mr Carey said he wished to honour Colquhoun's memory by sharing some of the wealth with his family. The servant had been held in great esteem by his ancestors' household, he explained.

Hope that helps someone    If so, please remember who passed the news on to you 

Prue

[Half Pint]

Sorry, not me or mine

[PassionPlay]

Do I smell a Rootschat challenge   

Steph

[JK]

Fantastic story Why does nothing like that ever happen to me Hope they track the family down.

[liverpool annie]

Wonder why they're trying to find the Colquhoun's ?? - doesn't sound quite right to me !! 

Official records show that by the late 19th century there were at least seven Colquhouns in San Francisco, including a Robert Dundas Colquhoun, born in British Columbia in 1860. Some 34 Colquhouns are listed as living in California.

In early 1859 James Cullen Colquhoun quit his job in the Edinburgh household of William Pitt Dundas, the Registrar-General for Scotland and Robert Dundas’s father, and travelled to Canada. He worked in a gold mine in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, before setting up a guesthouse with his wife on Vancouver Island.

When the venture collapsed Dundas, who also went to Canada in 1859, helped Colquhoun to find a series of jobs before he moved to San Francisco.

Annie