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THOS. O. PAGE HEIRS
Several Heard From
[Welland Tribune, 30 November 1911]
The enquiry for heirs of Thomas O. Page, recently published, has stirred up information of several of that name.
The grandfather of our well-known townsman, Mr. C.J. Page, was Thomas Page, who lived on the Quaker Road, Thorold township. Clayt’ don’t know whether he had an O. in his name or not. He was killed by falling off a load of wood, about the year 1850. The family came from the States, so he might have been the missing link, and if so, his descendents are the heirs.
Another representative of the Page family tells us the fortune has been known of for a long time, and enquiries have been on foot. He thinks the Thos. O. Page, who is wanted, is a generation further back than Clayt’s grandpa.
Mr. Stephen Beatty of St. Catharines, a well-known local historian, thinks that the Thomas Page, as referred to in the Evening Journal of Monday, came to Bertie township in the county of Welland about 1797. He secured a large tract of territory in Bertie. William Page died about the year 1827 or 8, leaving at least one son, Otway, who for a long time resided in Fort Erie. Mr. Otway Page may have left descendents but the children or grandchildren may be of a different name.
Otway Page was a general and commission merchant and was a prominent and influential man in Fort Erie in 1846.
Descendents of this family, we understand, still live near Point Abino, in the township of Bertie.
The Tribune advises the heirs or supposed heirs of Thos. O. Page, not to lose any sleep of hypothecate any good coin in looking after other people’s millions. There are more fortunes made by sharp lawyers getting contributions from enquirers, than ever secured by the heirs themselves.
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