Tottie's Story
This is another strange story.
I don't know how my great-grandmother Tottie became involved, but in 1912, she joined a class-action attempt to lay claim to Samuel Churchill's $85,000,000 estate in Newfoundland, Canada.
Her story--which appeared in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner--was that she had been born to Samuel Churchill's daughter, "Clermont," and her husband, whose name Tottie did not know. She said that as a small child living in England, she witnessed the death of her mother as she herself was being kidnapped. She was then sent from England to Canada, where she was placed in an orphanage in Galt, Ontario, and eventually adopted by the Moyers.
The "Churchill Estate" inheritance claim was eventually discredited.
In terms of Tottie's assertion about her biological parents, there is no record that Samuel Churchill's daughter, Clarimond, and her husband ever had a daughter who was separated from them or whom they gave up.
I don't know how my great-grandmother Tottie became involved, but in 1912, she joined a class-action attempt to lay claim to Samuel Churchill's $85,000,000 estate in Newfoundland, Canada.
Her story--which appeared in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner--was that she had been born to Samuel Churchill's daughter, "Clermont," and her husband, whose name Tottie did not know. She said that as a small child living in England, she witnessed the death of her mother as she herself was being kidnapped. She was then sent from England to Canada, where she was placed in an orphanage in Galt, Ontario, and eventually adopted by the Moyers.
The "Churchill Estate" inheritance claim was eventually discredited.
In terms of Tottie's assertion about her biological parents, there is no record that Samuel Churchill's daughter, Clarimond, and her husband ever had a daughter who was separated from them or whom they gave up.