{"id":10023,"date":"2019-05-09T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:40:47","slug":"could-the-child-choose-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/could-the-child-choose-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Child Choose the Guardian?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In some locations, when a child for whom a guardian had been appointed reached a certain age, they could choose their own guardian. That age was often fourteen. The guardianship papers don&#8217;t need to say the relationship, but they sometimes do. This fourteen year old, Abigail Daby chose her brother (Joseph Clark&#8211;with relationship stated) to be her guardian in 1746\/1747 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-chooses-guardian-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-chooses-guardian-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-chooses-guardian-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-chooses-guardian-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-chooses-guardian.jpg 1394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some locations, when a child for whom a guardian had been appointed reached a certain age, they could choose their own guardian. That age was often fourteen. The guardianship papers don&#8217;t need to say the relationship, but they sometimes do. This fourteen year old, Abigail Daby chose her brother (Joseph Clark&#8211;with relationship stated) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}