On 25 Aug 2006, at 12:47, Margery Allcock wrote:
I was born to Dorothy and William Burgh. My father said that, with a
surname like Burgh, nobody needed a middle name for identification, so
I
never had one.
My Mother used to be Dorothy May Smith; as a child there was another
Dorothy
May
In northern USA (Massachusetts, anyway) the custom, if you intend to take
your husband's surname, seems almost universally to drop your maiden name
and keep your middle name, and then add the husband's surname.
Coming from Virginia, I insisted on doing as the Virginians do -- even in
