Newspaper Library - Roscoe

[Exiled Mancunian]

One of the family legends on my wifes side concerns an attempt to trace money left to the family and supposedly 'in Chancery'. The money is supposed to have been left by a wealthy ancestor but his heirs could not be traced.

A cousin visited my wife's mother, aunts and uncles, and their parents, during the thirties and forties to drum up support for a bid to get this money back for the family. People were asked to contribute money to pay for a barrister to investigate the claim.

An article appeared in either the 'Empire News' or the 'News of the World' on August 17th 1947 detailing the womans quest to locate 'The Roscoe Millions'. It was, apparently a large article covering half a page, and concluded that 'the search was nearly over...'

Well, we are still poor and we know now that there was no truth in it whatsoever.

Even so I would be interested to know if the article did appear and, if possible, to actually read it.

If anyone is visiting the Newspaper Library and has time to spare, I would be grateful if they could have a look for this article for me and see what the cost would be for a copy.

Thanks in advance and any information, however small, would be greatly appreciated.

Exiled Mancunian

[Meliora]

Hello, Mancunian,

Why not try contacting the Archives of the New of the World/the Sun.

I had a look at their website but it only allowed a search back to 1996, it gave contact details.

For general enquiries, please e-mail: archive@the-sun.co.uk

You can also write to us at:
The Sun and The News of the World Archive
1 Virginia Street
London
E98 1 NN
United Kingdom

http://www.thesun.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/faq.asp

Meliora

[joanne159]

hi there that legend is also in my family on my dads side and i was wondering if you ever found the newspaper article as i would also love a copy as i was told about the roscoe millions when i was about 13-14, (i am 29 now). we were told that they couldn't find all the roscoes therefore couldn't release the money etc as something needed to be signed, i'm sure there's more to the story and would love to read all about it. my grandad and great great uncle were roscoe's but sadly have both passed away.

if you have anymore information i would love to hear it.

many thanks

joanne

[joanne159]

Hi again

Sorry i don't know how to message you back so i have had to go through here again.

I can't remember that much about it, the only things i know at the moment is that its from my grandads side. He and his brother have both passed away but his sister is still alive although i don't know her but my nan does. My grandads name was William Edward Roscoe Critchlow and the Roscoe was from in his family. I'm in the middle of trying to do a family tree to see where it all connects and will ask my nan for more information. My grandads sister also looked into it a few years back and having just spoke to my mum she said there was something about a piece of paper being missing which is needed and know one can find it. This is why i would love to read up on it and why i am looking for more information. I had also heard there was a newspaper article about it but i thought it was from later then the 1947 newspaper you know about so either this is the one or there could be another i'm not sure i'm just trying to find out everything i can to see if there is any truth to the legend, at the very least this is proving to be fun and is giving me something to do. There must be something somewhere if there are other people out there that have heard the same story and have been looking into it.

Any information i can find i will let you know

Thanks

Joanne

[Tralena]

What an interesting story....please keep it going and let us know how you get on.

Good luck with your research, I wish you every success.

Regards

Tralena

[65ribble]

until a few years ago i had from my grandfather William Roscoe an old news paper clipping from the news of the world it was about the 1950S it concerned two spinsters and some one who went to the high court in London
do not know the out come or how or what the story was Williams mother passed to some one some family papers to make enquires but nothing came of it and nothing of the documents which must have been certificates general stuff i would like to know the back ground to this story
but yes their was a story wish i kept the paper

[anpefa1]

hello all

i searched the august 1947 issues of the news of the world and there is no mention of the roscoe money, not even in the unclaimed oney section.

now, these microfilm copies are of the london editions so the article may have been in a provincial issue or the date could be later as has been mentioned.

scanning 52 copies times x years on microfilm will not be easy on the old mince pies so if someone can offer a reasonable date i will look again.

tony