Probably not *exactly* advertise - but maybe hang a bit on the
coat-tails of the father?
At 7:39 AM +0200 8/23/06, Avital wrote:
I asked my husband, who's English, and he said, Why would anyone want to
advertise the fact? ;-)
Avital
That's true, but historically, a double barrelled name is
Of course, there's also the fact that, in the UK at least, you can legally
be known by any name you like. You can either do it through official
documentation in the form of a deed poll, or just advertise the fact that
from whatever date you choose you wish to be known as ...
A
OK, I didn't think I was going to jump into the midst of the
nomenclatural frolic, but what the heck. It's been an interesting
thread and answered several questions I often pondered. Now with my
mother being Dutch, when she married my American father, she followed
Dutch tradition and used
To get financial support from the father?
Brenda
On 23 Aug 2006, at 06:39, Avital wrote:
I asked my husband, who's English, and he said, Why would anyone want
to
advertise the fact? ;-)
Avital
That's true, but historically, a double barrelled name is more likely
to have come about through
Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding
a married name to the end of the maiden name. I have
a niece who didn't want to give up her maiden name, so
she called herself Johnson-Smith. Her husband just
uses his name of Smith.
The best known example here is Hilary Rodham-Clinton.
A quote which I wrote out some years ago from a genealogy book says,
To create a little distinction, some people, particularly those who
had, or felt they had, some authority or standing, added their
mothers' maiden names to their surnames
So it looks as if there is no end to the reasons why
On Aug 23, 2006, at 17:52, Alice Howell wrote:
Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding
a married name to the end of the maiden name.
You don't know the half :)
When I got married (1973), my husband told me that the custom (which
I took to mean the Southern custom) was for the
