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From: "John R. Clarke" <>
Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] DNA & Orphans notes
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:03:05 -0400
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Hi,
That investment varied from state to state. In GA all of this was
changed in 1867 and women were fully invested with the same legal rights,
sans voting, as men. This person is also correct in that children of
siblings often ended up in the families of their uncles, aunts and
grandparents, however I do not know of any instances were their names were
changed to that of the sibling/parents, although I am sure some were some.
One of the more often cases is when the mother died and the father dumped
their children off on her siblings or parents. This happened all the time
and still does.

The only instance I know of when the names of their children were
actually changed was due to divorce. This happened to the children of
Robert POTTER (1799-1842) and Isabella TAYLOR in Halifax County, NC. She
changed the names of their two children to PELHAM, her mother's maiden name,
after her divorce from POTTER in 1834. However, this does not really have
an effect on later descendants of this family because these two kids did not
survive to adulthood, according to my information.

John R. Clarke
Thomasville, GA
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From: "Marianne Ordway" <>
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Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:50 PM
Subject: [NCBERTIE] DNA & Orphans notes


> Robert shared these points on the subject:
>
> Up until about 1900, and in some places much later, children were
> considered orphans if their father died while the child(ren) were
> younger than the legal age. Women had no basic rights and often
> were not allowed to be guardians of their own children. Women often
> returned to their parent's home or to the home of a brother or a
> married sister; thereby the multiple surnames within a family unit
> on the census. Court records might be found where/when a male
> family member or friend was designated as guardian.
>
>
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