Re: John Hyde Association 1880's search for estate
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In reply to:
Re: John Hyde Association 1880's search for estate
Mark Osman 8/29/11
Mark, et al,
I found an online copy of "The Report of the Committee to Investigate the Hyde Estate" here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_06818#page/n5/mode/2uphttp://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_06818#page/n5/mode/2up
This is from the Hyde Family Association in Nova Scotia. They later joined up with the Hyde Associations in New York and Ohio. A list of Hydes who appeared in notices in the London papers is on page 22.
The follow up book is "The John Hyde Association:
report of Hon Thos. A. Logan" which I'm not able to locate online. The upshot is that the notices were misleading and there was no fortune.
The New York Sun ran a piece on this on Sunday, Jan 2nd 1881. A not exactly legible copy of the story is here: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1881-01-02/ed-1/seq-6.pdfhttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1881-01-02/ed-1/seq-6.pdf (move your cursor to the bottom center of the page and the + and - icons will provide varying degrees of illegibility).
The real treasure is that almost all Hyde families have some version of The Great Hyde Estate Story in their lore, and a lot of genealogical information that might have been lost was preserved as a direct result.
I think we should send another envoy to London :-)