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Offline gpneale

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Taking the female surname upon marriage
« on: Sunday 22 February 15 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Can anybody give me the possible reasons why a man may take his wife's surname when they married?  This has happened 2 or 3 times in my tree and I'm fascinated to know why they would have done it.

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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 February 15 16:53 GMT (UK) »
Rare surname in danger of dying out?  Like no male persons to carry on the name in the ladies family.
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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 February 15 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Money ;D ;D  Inheritance only IF you take the wife's surname? 
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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 22 February 15 17:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Like Milliepede I would wonder if it was to carry the surname forward if there were no males in brides family to do so.
Or if groom disliked his surname /wanted to disassociate from surname for some reason??
Or (and this is actually happening at present to a young acquaintance of mine) family estrangement due to couple marrying - if groom's family strongly and vocally disapproved of the wedding , he might feel inclined to change his name to his bride's surname.

Looby :)


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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 22 February 15 17:10 GMT (UK) »
Thanks all for the input. It seems most likely that it is to do with inheritance (I think). A child was born, (1860) with no father's name on the Birth Cert.,  but 2 months later, the mother gets married and bride, groom and child all take her name.

Definitely some jiggery-pokery somewhere and I'd love to find out what went on...
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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 22 February 15 17:28 GMT (UK) »
Try and find a will.

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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 22 February 15 17:32 GMT (UK) »
Sometimes the husbands surname isnt very "nice" and the wife has a more common one and less prone to jokes.
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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 22 February 15 18:11 GMT (UK) »
I have heard of a fairly recent situation where the groom took on the wife's surname - only she had been married previously so what he actually took on was her former husbands surname  :o
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Re: Taking the female surname upon marriage
« Reply #8 on: Monday 23 February 15 16:39 GMT (UK) »
I should think if Ethel Brown fell in love with Arnold Rupert Shufflebottom, both parties may well have considered using her surname!
More sensibly, the male half may have been trying to evade people - either a not-properly divorced wife, or family, or even the authorities, such as being an army deserter or criminal?
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