QUEEN VICTORIA.
Mary Morter (1818-1852), a Princess in South Salem, Ohio?
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. 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`!