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interesting woman, from Wiki: her marriage was unhappy and childless. (Years after the fact, it was mooted that Aribert was homosexual and had been caught in bed with a servant, either by Marie Louise or his father.) In December 1900, her father-in-law used his prerogative as reigning Duke of Anhalt to annul the marriage. Princess Marie Louise, on an official visit to Canada at the time, immediately returned to Britain. According to her memoirs, she regarded her marriage vows as binding, so she never remarried. Her memoirs do, however, indicate rage over her marital experience and an obvious dislike of her former husband en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_Louise_of_Schleswig-...

She happened to be in the news at this time because on January 18, 1914, she arrived with a sightseeing party of British nobility in Colon, Panama -- where, as guests of the British minister there, they intended to do some sightseeing on the new Panama Canal before continuing on to Jamaica. New York Times story, January 19, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A06E...

In there somewhere, I guess: maps.google.ie/maps?q=powerstown+kilkenny&hl=en&l...

There's Grattan-Bellews in the 1911 census. Are these people marrying their cousins? www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_... Or does the title only reflect one party to this matrimonial alliance?

From this article in the Kilkenny People, I think this is Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus marrying Thomas Henry (Hal) Grattan-Bellew, a great great grandson of Henry Grattan, the great irish patriot.

Niall McAuley Beat me to it!

London Times, June 14th 1933

Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus was the daughter of Major John Edward Blake Loftus.2 She married Thomas Henry Grattan-Bellew, son of Sir Henry Christopher Grattan-Bellew, 3rd Bt. and Lady Sophia Maria Elizabeth Forbes, on 1 June 1933.1 She died on 10 March 1995.1 From 1 June 1933, her married name became Grattan-Bellew.

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_Cutting

Her IMDb entry (she wrote scenarios for a couple short silent films in 1916): www.imdb.com/name/nm1945253/ Her story "The Blossoming Rod" as an ebook: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14946 She also contributed a chapter titled "The Daughter-in-Law" to a collaborative novel, The Whole Family in 1916; other contributors included William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman... The Librivox recording of that novel is here: librivox.org/the-whole-family-by-various/

onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=... supplies links to page images of several of her books.