Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-20
COLONIAL NEW YORK.
Involved in the Engagement of AiIeen
Coote to Lord Farnham.


("Marquise de Fontenoy" in New
York Tribune. New Workers cannot
fail to be interested in the announce
ment of the engagement of young Lord
Farnham to Miss Aileen Coote for
she is member of that family which
furnished to New York it's first re-
form governor in colonial days-name-
ly, the Earl of Bellomont, who died at
his post in March, 1901, and lies
buried in st. Paul's churchyard, in
New York, where memorial is about
to be erected over his tomb.
The Cootes are a very ancient Eng
fish family, and the first baronet re-
ceived his title and estates in Ireland
from King James l for his military
services against younger son of one
of these Coote baronets of the King
James creation who became earl of
Bellomont. The last earl of Bellomont
died in 1874, and, having no legitimate
issue, obtained an English baronetcy,
with remainder to his illegitimate son.
The latter on the earrs death sue
ceeded, not to his peerage, but to the
baronetcy and to the estates, and it is
his grandson, the present Sir Charles
Algernon Coote, who is constantly
being denounced by Henry Labou-
chere, M. p, in the pages of his
weekly London newspaper, Truth, as
q professional mendicant and begging
letter writer.
Sir Charles Algernon Coote, who is
therefore a lineal descendant of New
Yorks first reform governor, must not
be COMPOUNDED with Sir Algernon
Coote, the head of the senior branch
of the Coote family, and whose
baronetcy dates from the reign of
King James I. He possesses extensive
estates in Ireland, particularly in
Queens county, and is son of that
Oxford divine whose name figures as
author on the title page of work that
at one moment had a great vogue on
this side of the Atlantic-namely
bible Helps for Busy Men"
Miss Coote shows some courage in
marrying Lord Farnham for. although
the later is good looking young
cavalry officer, possessed of large es-
tates and a clean record, and who
served with distinction in the South
Africn war. he is the chief of a house
that is, according TO Irish tradition.
blighted with curse. Whereas the
peerage was only created a little over
100 years ago, the present lord is al
ready the 18th wearer of the coronet.
The seventh Lord Farnham died sud
denly only few weeks after succeed
ing to the title, when the eighth lord
grand uncle of the present peer. lost
his life, together with his wife. in the
terrible railroad accident of Aber-
savelly, in Wales.
! II may be remembered that n train
of petroleum trucks got loose. started
down the steep incline near Aber-
gayelly, and collided with the Irish
mall the wrecked carriages being i'm
meGiately enveloped in flames. The
/ door of the compartment in which
Lord and Lady Farnham were travel.
ing had been locked in order to secure
them from intrusion at the stations
where stops We're made. and being
thus unable TO escape, they persisted
! IN the flames. their bodies being so
entirely consumed that nothing was
LETT save the fused setting of some
lewelry worn by Lady Farnhan.
The present Lord Farnham' elder
brother was killed few years ago by
bicycle accident in the midst of the
festivities organized TO celebrate his
coming of age. while his father. the
late Lord Farnham, grand master or
the crangemen. experienced no end of
nnp!eaSantness in connection with
charges of forgery brought against
MIN by. a man of the name of Hale.
who for more than so years had been
the confidential servant and principal
factotum Of the ninth lord, and who in.
sisted that the viii probated by his
successor was a bogus document and
not the one which he knew his master
to have signed on his death-bed. Al.