6.QUEEN
VICTORIA.
Mary Morter (1818-1852), a
Princess in South Salem, Ohio?
Legend:
Stepsister of Queen Victoria!
What a wonderful way to
finish my Morter Website, a possible link to Queen Victoria? I was hoping, by now, of better proof of
been related to Jack Morter; because, he is the main connection! It is clear that, Jack goes back to Blyth
Jagward Morter, who married Mary Ann Harrison in 1838. Both he and another member of his line, Stephen
Kelly, allege that: Mary Morter
could well have been Queen Mary, the Queen of England, instead of Queen
Victoria!
According to both of them, apparently Mary’s
family claimed that she was the daughter of the Duke of Kent, Edward, a younger
son of George III. When George died
in 1820, his eldest son, George IV became king and ruled for 10
years. On his death, leaving no
heirs, it passed to his younger brother William (who became William IV) and
who also died without leaving any children.
The Crown would normally have passed to the next brother, Edward Duke
of Kent, but he had died in 1820. So
far, all this is fact, not legend!
Now, Edward had been twice married and by his 1st wife
had fathered Mary.
Legend: Mary Morter, stepsister of Queen Victoria!
Stephen goes on to say, and I quote:
“By all rights, upon the death of her
uncle, king William IV, Mary would have ascended to the throne, becoming Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India.”
Remember we ruled the waves, in those days!
“But alas! Mary, who had been born in March
of 1818, had committed the unforgivable sin of European royalty:
She had married a commoner!”
Because
she had joined in holy wedlock to one, not of royal bloodlines, by the time of
her uncles’ death in 1837, she had already been disinherited and shunned by her
relatives. Thus it occurred that,
the right to the throne fell to her younger sister Victoria, who had been born
less than two years after Mary, to Edward and his 2nd wife, Victoria Maria
Louisa, sister of King Leopold I of Belgium.” In fact, the Duke of Kent married Victoria’s mother in May of
1818 and Victoria was born in 1819.
The inscription on Mary Morter`s
tombstone reads:
“ Mary A. wife of B.J.Morter, native of England, Died April 16,
1852, aged 43 years, 1mo.4 days.” Then at the
very bottom of the monument is the single word:
“THINK”
As Stephen Kelly says, that’s what Blythe Morter intended.
He knew that generations would stop and
look at the lonely grave,
and
indeed ‘Think`!
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