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Carol Brand (58) is appealing for help in tracing a stash of documents found in a treasure chest years ago linking her family to some of the UK's most famous historical figures.<br />
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Carol recently stumbled upon a Courier news story from 2013 in which Dundee man Richard Brown told of finding a host of amazing documents in the chest, which was stored in his attic.<br />
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The information in it linked two Dundee families, the Thoms' and Jobsons, to hugely influential and powerful figures such as Robert Burns, Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Scott.<br />
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At the time of the find, Mr Brown said he had inherited the chest over 30 years ago after his aunt, Jean Bell, passed away.<br />
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Carol says her mother's family are related to Jean Bell's husband, William Bell.<br />
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Ger Harley | EEm 4 April 2018