Hello: There is rumor in my family, the MORTERs that we are descendant from an Admiral Mortier from France, who fled the Huguenot persecutions between 1650-1750 from a Chateau on the banks of the Oise or the Loire, to relatives in Norfolk; in particular, Beccles. He supposely was helped to escape by an Admiral Tinker and his family. The story went on, that a son, by now Morter, married a daughter of this Tinker family and created the Morter line in England. Nice story, but I have never have been able to proof. Would you have suggestions as where I might look?