{"id":5853,"date":"2016-12-10T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:42:43","slug":"did-they-revert-to-a-previous-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/10\/did-they-revert-to-a-previous-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Did They Revert to a Previous Last Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that your widowed or divorced ancestor reverted to a previous surname after they were no longer married? That&#8217;s what Gesche Fecht did on this 1887 arrival in Baltimore. Despite having survived two husbands she is listed with her maiden surname of Fecht on the manifest.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gesche-fecht-arrived.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5854\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gesche-fecht-arrived.jpg\" alt=\"gesche-fecht-arrived\" width=\"700\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gesche-fecht-arrived.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gesche-fecht-arrived-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gesche-fecht-arrived-624x321.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that your widowed or divorced ancestor reverted to a previous surname after they were no longer married? That&#8217;s what Gesche Fecht did on this 1887 arrival in Baltimore. Despite having survived two husbands she is listed with her maiden surname of Fecht on the manifest.\u00a0<\/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-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","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=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}