I'm having a few issues with my 2x Great Grandmother. According to birth records of her children her maiden name was Miles, so using this I went in search of her birth record, I assumed that her name was Martha Mary Miles..... nothing found across a span of 20 years on the General Records Office website at all. Then I decided to double check it by taking out the middle name and just looking for a Martha Miles over the same time period.
Lo and behold, I find a Martha SARAH Miles born in 1851, registered in Shoreditch, London. My question is...... is it a common thing for someone to completely change their middle name? I've not come across it with anyone else in my tree before. Admittedly, I do have some relations who went by their middle names instead of their first, but this was to avoid confusion with other family members who had the same first name. My Grandad and my Uncle had the same first name, my Uncle was known by his middle name, but all official documents have all his names on them.
This is a first for me and I'm at a loss of what to do as there are no other marriages for my 2x Great Grandfather. Any help/advice greatly appreciated
