On BBC I today, the Heir Hunters programme showed investigators looking for the heirs/relatives of Lily Amelia Fernandez ( Fernandes ?) born in Quilon, Southern India.
She died aged 72, a retired mid wife, who lived in Sidcup kent. She left a tidy nest egg, the house itself would be worth in the region of £300,000. If unclaimed all will go to the treasury. The researchers had gone to Jamalpur in Northern India, as that was the only clue they had, although the birth certificate stated Quilon. They found what they thought were the parents death details in the Church records. Aas their issue Lily Amelia Fernandes, died aged three months. Apparently there are few Christians up North, mainly immigrants from Goa who traveled in the mid 19th Century and set up home. To complicate the issue many Goans change the spelling of their surnames for instance Fernandes becomes Fernandez and so on and so forth. The search continues, could you be entitled to the Estate? -- Gabe. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London.
