At 12:00 AM 10/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Could a child around 1800 be referred still be referred to as an "orphan" of
>a named individual, if that individual was a court appointed guardian,
>because both of the child's natural parents were deceased?

I don't know, but I will offer that I have a case around then that
describes a child as an "orphan" because "his father has run away". So I
wonder if orphan meant something slightly different then - like "child in
need of protection or guardianship". So in your case "orphan of X" might
have meant "the orphan for whom X was responsible for". All speculation, of
course.

--Holly

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