Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-02-14

New Orleans, and, In fact, practically
all the large cities"
Lady Peterborough, on her return to
England from the United States, will
purchase an estate-preferably an IT.
ish castle-for the Ellenborough fami-
ly sadly needs an ancestral home.
Both Lord and Lady Ellenborough are
of direct Irish descent. The Law
family, OF which the fifth Baron of
Peterborough is the head, has never
possessed lands or houses. II is not
one of the old aristocratic families of
Britain, but a family descended from
poor country curate OF the eighteenth
century. The present title and two
others, which have lapsed, were hon.
ors earned by hard and brilliant work.
The Laws have followed the family
name and have been great lawyers,
as we'll as remarkable ecclesiastics
and naval men.
II Is a strange fact and one hereto
fore entirely unnoticed, that when
Miss Hermione Schenley, of Pittsburg.
Pa, married Edward Downes Law
Baron Ellenborough) at St. Saviour's
church, Chelsea, London, she married
direct connection OF George Wash
ington. first president of the United
States, through Martha Washington,
his wife. The Peterborough coat-of-
arms, while decorated with three tir-
umphant roosters, has Its shield up.
held by two screaming American
eagles.
Thomas Law, born In 1856, the great
great-grandfather OF the present peer,
married Anne daughter OF John Parke
Curtis The latter's widow was Mar
tina. who later married Gen, George
Washington. The Laws and the Wash
ingtons were family friends, and when
Martha Washington's Englhh grand
daughter went to visit her in the
United States, she fell in love with a
scion of the Rogers family of Mary
land and was married to him from
the Washingtons' home. II was her
grandfather by marriage, the presi-
dent of the United States. who gave
her away at the altar.
AS already mentioned, the title Of
Ellenboroueh was won by hard and
good work for the empire. There are
no royal favorites In the ancestry, no
bar sinister on the shield. And in
these particulars the family Is one Of
the few exceptions of Great Britain's
peerage. II was Edward Law, attor-
ney general and. later. chief Justice OF
England. who earned first knighthood
and then barony In 1902.
While the Laws In various branches
have had large families of from nine
10 dozen children. II Ia somewhat
strange that those directly the heirs
10 the title or nearest TO II in success
sion have been visited almost whole
sale by the hand OF death The pres
ent peer succeeded to the title -four
and a half years ago. his cousin. the
fourth baron, dying wi.nout a direct
heir The cousin received the title
on his unele's death few years be
fore, and this haron had nine brothers
and sisters. who all had died before
him
A good many years ago the frequent
and eariy deaths so frightened The
family That FIVE or six girls In one
generation became nuns One Of
hose. the present peers aunt. was
Elizabeth the FIRST ahbess and founder
~ the Franciscan order In Ireland
The abbey Is al Drumshambo
The fourth baron tried valiantiy "a
leave d direct heir He married fonr
times the last time within few
months OF his third wife's death. Ills
widow. daughter OF Sir Norton
Knaschbull Hart. Of Kent. has 70 date
been known as Lady Elleaboroagh,
but now the new American peerless
possesses the only right to that title
and the widowed baroness viii in the
future be known as Beatrice. Lady
Ellcnborough.