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From: "Adrian C Whittaker" <>
Subject: Re: Another marriage question
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:06:16 -0000
References: <000001c1ca76$17091f30$8fd8223f@noel>


Haven't come across the adoption of the wife's surname except in one modern
case where a very historic line (several hundred years in one landed estate)
was about to die out, but where the new husband adopted his wife's name to
keep the name going.

However I have, not infrequently, come across examples where one or more of
the children took the wife's maiden name as a middle name - it has happened
with my own ancestors in a couple of cases too.

Adrian C Whittaker, in Gravesend, Kent, searching for:-
FRAIL, in 17th/18th C Herts/Bucks/Middx, but also anytime, anywhere, and
WHITTAKER in 18th/19th C Essex and 19th/20th C London

I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
http://www.archivecdbooks.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Clark" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: Another marriage question


> If I may, another marriage question.
>
> I'm sure that in England in the 1800s it was "standard practice" for a
> married couple to continue with the husband's surname after marriage,
> and that this practice was followed in all cases. Certainly in my own
> family this was, to my knowledge, always the case.
>
> However, does anyone have any example of a couple adopting, say, the
> wife's surname? For example, if a young widow with children remarried -
> any chance of the couple continuing with her first-married surname so
> that the children, both existing and following, would all have the same
> surname?
>
> Regards,
> Noel
>
>
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