Okay, thanks so far. As far as I know, there was no such request in a will. There was never any testamentary note issued that I know of. I may just stick with the general "guardian" as my search term so as not to exclude anything. I think if any sort of guardianship was granted, it was probably...
This one goes back over a century, though it may still be common today: I'm wondering what it would be called in the United States when one sibling (older half-sister) is made the guardian of another sibling (younger half-sister) when both are orphaned and the older is of legal age. I suspect it...