Parent Mystery - John Thomson Stewart died 1894 Dumfries

[Boongie Pam]

In fact @kall I’m just following your pointer and James Stewart (mason) appears in Dec 1836 with a different woman!!!! I sense a scoundrel!?

[*Sandra*]

This may be of interest if you haven't already come across it

1 Dec 1894
Dumfries and Galloway Standard(Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland)

Sandra

[kall]

He certainly sounds like it..I’ve a few of them in my tree too

[Boongie Pam]

Thank you Sandra - yes these are the newspaper snippets I found that started my search. I am curious to the call on the Stewart millionaire's estate so I trying to piece which Stewarts he is related to.

[Forfarian]

Left by the late A T Stewart of New York, before 1894.

How could he have a claim if he was illegitimate?

[Boongie Pam]

My thoughts exactly @Forfarian

Reading about the multiple claims it seems like a lot of chancing the arm.

The solicitor getting nothing (the case you posted) feels quite Agatha Christie when one of the winning defendants breaks his skull 2-3 months later!