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GIRL’S NAMES
What They Mean-Famous People That Bore the Name-The Name in History, Literature, Etc.
By Henry W. Fischer
[Welland Telegraph, 2 January 1912]
MARY
Mary is the Hebrew form of the Greek name Miriam, variously translated “Rebellion” or “Full of Bitterness,” the exact meaning, however remaining in dispute.
Modern writers, particularly the American and English, claim authority for translating Mary as “The Exalted One,” which seems acceptable in view of the fact that so many famous women were named Mary by royal parents.
In religion, chief of all is the Virgin Mary, who was of the tribe of Judah and of the royal lineage of David.
Mary Chatsworth, immortalized in Bryon’s poem, “The Dream,” was the poet’s first love. Highland Mary was the youthful love of Burns, and the subject of his famous songs, “Will You Go to the Indies, My Mary?” “Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon” and “Thou Lingering Star.”
English Queens bearing this name are Mary I., sometimes called “Bloody Mary,” Mary of Modena, the Queen of James the second, and Mary II., who jointly ruled England with King William, III.
The first of the Scottish royal Marys was Mary of Guise, the wife of James the Fifth and mother of the famous Mary Stuart, the “Mary Queen of Scots” of romance and history.
In France there was Marie Therese, wife of the Grand Monarque, Marie Lescuinska, the consort of Louis XV, Marie Antoinette and Marie Louise, the second wife of the great Napoleon.
Marie Theresa was Empress of Austria and the mother of Joseph II, the last to rule as Emperor of the Western Romans.
Marie Sophia, last Queen of Naples, now keeps a lace store in Paris.
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