When I got married, I took my husband's surname, but also kept my own as
per Dutch custom. On all official documents my surname is Boddington-van
Giersbergen.
As it is so long, it often get shortened on junk mail to Boddington-van
Giers/van Giersberg. The other day I took a junk call from India and the
young man wanted to speak to mrs. van Gierberg, only he could not
pronounce it and stumbled along, with me assuring him that no person of
that name lived here.
English people have asked me whether I was blue-blooded, having such a
long, hyphenated name. My usual response is something along the lines
of: they were bloody, but not blue.
I think it all comes down to personal choice, many English women (like
Cherrie Blair/Booth) continue using their maiden name for some purpose
and their married name when needen and calling themselves Ms as well.
Agnes Boddington - UK
Bobbin maker - will ship worldwide
Brenda Paternoster wrote:
On 22 Aug 2006, at 21:44, LiduinaAD wrote:
When you get married in UK, do you lose your maiden name or do you
keep it
with the name of your husband ? For example: my maiden name is
Heijblom, my
husband's name is Jaumotte and since I'm married, my name is
Jaumotte-Heijblom. Is it the same in UK ?
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