The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-03-04
CoGHLAN HEIRS WANTED.

assure him we are learning.
COGHLAN HEIRS WANTED.
information Which May be of Interest -
Mrs M. Hanley and Others
There recently appeared in these COL
umne an account of Sir Henry Thomas
Coghlan, who died intestate in England,
leaving an estate valued at $3,000,C00. It
was ated that Mrs Michael Hanley, OF
this city, was the next Of kin and that
she was likely to inherit a very large
share of the wealth OF the deceased baro-
net. The Dublin Freeman's Journal
gives the following additional informs
ton of the late baronet and bis estate:
The estate, valued at nearly G70O,O0O, of
| the late Mr.. Henry Thomas Coghlan, Of
Hyde Park Gardens, who died in Novem-
Der last, is now to be administered in
the Court of Chancery. No will has yet
been found. Suggested, perhaps, by an
incident in 1.-THE Newcomes," search has
been made in all the books in Mr.. Cogh-
lan's library, lest any paper relating TO-
his testamentary Intentions might have
been shut mp in ons of them, like Mrs.
Newcomers instructions for council in
her Orme's "InGia" Nothing of the
kind has been discovered in this case. 1t
is, however, known that at one time
when Mr. Coghlan gave to firm of sofi-
~ toro tho hoo1c of o1a,,caa f<,, q wiH-hn
had prepared list of some sixty CHAR
table institutions which presumably no
intended to benefit. Possibly he had
then persuaded himself that he had no
relations on the paternal side, for he had
taken great interest in tracing tne Cogh-
lian pedigree, and had got together a
mass of papers on the subject. Mr..
Cughlan was born in 1911 or 1872. His
father, General Coghlan, married Emma,
sec MD daughter and one of the ten
children of the Rev. Sir Thomas Brough-
ton Delves, Bart, by his first wife Mary,
daughter Of AIR. John Wicker, of Hors.
ham. Mr.. Coghlan died in 1910. It 10
through her that Sir Henry Delves
Broughton (by whom letters of admins
tration were taken QUIT, and Mrs, Maa,
and Mrs. Lawson claim to be next of kin
of the late Mr.. Coghlan. No next of kin
in the same degree on his fathers side
have yet claimed. Indeed, it is not
known that General Coghlan had any
brothers or sisters. He was, it Was said,
of the Kings County branch Of the
Coghlan family; but the name is mot ua-
common in three or four counties in Ire
land. Inquiries have been very numer-
GUS from persons in almost all parts Of
the United Kingdom, thinking they may
possibly be interested in the great Cogh-
Ian fortune. The American claims, which
will doubtless hereafter be numerous,
have hardly vet begun to arrive. Some
of those already made in England have
shown that the claimants had rather
vague ideas with regard to the distribu-
ton of the estates of intestates. One ID
quirer appeared to think the fact that
his father had once an intimate friend
named C,ghlan might Justify claim On
this estate SO far as at present appears,
only four or five cousins-german on the
m ,ther's side are likely to take shares Of
the late Mr.. Coghlan's wealth. The
greater part of it was the result of care
full investment and steady accumulation.
He inherited, it is said, from his father
about 100000; but he lived very mex
pensively, keeping ]atterly only two ser.
wants, and for good many years past
must have been reinvesting all but
small portion of his income. Charitable
institutions have probably the most
cauee for regret that although an ex-
tremely methodical man he left no will,
or if he left one, put it away SO carefully
that it has not been found.
THE memory of a famous Jesuit mis-