I've been checking too.............not coming up with anything so far. cheryl -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nick M. Gombash" <nickmgombash@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:28 PM To: <hungary@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] Hungarian Title For Sale 1905 > I wonder if that was even legal in Hungarian law.. very interesting. I'm > curious which Eszterházy she was.. I'll have to do some digging around. :) > > Nick M. Gombash > > nickmgombash@yahoo.com > > www.hungaryexchange.com > > --- On Mon, 10/18/10, marlo <marlo50@bex.net> wrote: > > From: marlo <marlo50@bex.net> > Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] Hungarian Title For Sale 1905 > To: hungary@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 5:15 PM > > Cheryl, Don't you wonder if any one took her up on it? Did some rich > American buy her title? Margaret > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cheryl Wenberg" <cherlock@cheqnet.net> > To: <hungary@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:44 PM > Subject: [HUNGARY] Hungarian Title For Sale 1905 > > >> >> The Washington Times (Washington D.C.) July 9, 1905 >> >> Countess ESTERHAZY Would Sell Her Title For Cash >> >> Member of Noble Hungarian Family Needs $100,000 - Is living In Poverty In >> Small Hotel In Paris >> >> Paris - Should young Rockefeller or any other young American millionaire >> want to become the bearer >> of the title and name of one of the oldest and bluest-blooded families of >> Europe, there is a chance >> for him now in this city to acquire it for the modest sum of $100,000. >> >> Countess ESTERHAZY, of the noble Hungarian family of that name, is >> willing >> to bestow the title upon >> any young man willing to pay her price. >> >> She is at present living in the utmost poverty in a small hotel in a side >> street in this city. Here she >> told a newspaper reporter the sad story of her life a few days ago, and >> with tears in her eyes >> explained how much it had cost her to decide to make this sacrifice. >> >> "My grandfather," she said, "was a marshal of the court of Poland and a >> cousin to King Stanislaus. >> Originally my family belonged to Hungary and my father held exalted rank. >> In campaigns in which he >> took part he had no fewer than six horses killed under him. >> >> "My mother, although a French woman, was descended from an Irish family, >> named O'Toole, her >> father being one of the 500 who accompanied Marie Stuart from France to >> Scotland. I was born >> titled and rich, but today, because of my marriage to a spendthrift of a >> Frenchman, I am penniless. >> >> "After three years of married misery I got a divorce. I have nothing but >> my good name and my title. >> If there should be in America a family desirous of a title for their son, >> I am willing to sell mine. >> >> "I invite investigation, for my title is an ancient and honorable one. I >> will part with it on $100,000 >> being deposited in my name. During my lifetime I shall be at liberty to >> dispose of the interest and at >> my death the young man who bears the title will inherit the principal." >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.448 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3204 - Release Date: 10/18/10 > 06:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >