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Women's Words: A Glossary
• Administratrix: a woman assigned by the court to
administer an estate where there is no valid will
• Concubine: a woman who lives with a man to whom she is not married
• Consort: companion; term for when the woman
predeceased her husband
• Dower: a legal provision for a woman's support and that of her children after her husband's death; typically one-third of the husband's property; also known as "widow's thirds"
• Dowry: property the bride brings to her marriage
• Executrix: the woman named in a will to distribute
the estate
• Grass widow: a woman whose husband had deserted her; also used to refer to a woman who has illegitimate children or to a discarded common-law wife
• Relict: a widow
Get the complete guide to finding female ancestors in the April 2001 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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