This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/1853.2.1 Message Board Post: Well anything is possible...but the thing is...I have never seen Maria on a census record with her mother. I doubt Elizabeth would have sent a baby of hers back to the old country. And if she had done so, being a widow and needing to work to support herself, why not go back to Germany with her. And why would Maria carry the surname of Elizabeth's second husband and not her own father? However, I have no evidence of Maria's death either. Can you tell me anything more about your Maria or her family?