Double barrelled surnames

[Andrew Tarr]

(When I was teaching, we always guessed if the children on the Admissions list with DB surnames were posh, or simply that their parents never married.)

Just as an aside, it seems that these days d-b 'surnames' are becoming commoner - in both senses of that word.  The working class has usually made-do with just a single forename, while those they 'look up to' often had two, and the upper classes may have had more.  Of course the early Victorians started a vogue for using ancestors' surnames as middle names, and perhaps a hyphen got inserted later ?

[Skoosh]

Real Scottish toffs generally did not use a hyphen, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, in particular, dismissed it as a southern affectation! 

Skoosh.

[Zaphod99]

This made me smile. My very nice neighbour with a d-b name, Eton educated, would be surprised if I told him that just 3 generations back his Guards Regiment ancestor just added his mother's maiden name to his surname. Shoild I tell him?

Zaph

[JohninSussex]

Real Scottish toffs generally did not use a hyphen, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, in particular, dismissed it as a southern affectation! 

Skoosh.

That distinction never occurred to me, thank you.
The Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family use a hyphen (well more than one obviously) ;
as do the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.  But the Montagu Douglas Scott family don't.
The Rees-Mogg hypertoffs father son and daughter are hyphenated but Iain Duncan Smith isn't.

So I think that demonstrates the theory quite well: no hyphens are worn with the kilt.  Probably isn't universal though.

[Zaphod99]

Just recently I read about a couple with the surnames Christmas and White getting married and using the double barreled name White-Christmas. It's a true story, it was widely reported a couple of weeks ago.

Zaph

[brigidmac]

Stan
Personally  I found the fbmd link you gave really hard to make head or tail of
Is the answer to use square brackets instead of hyphens for double barrellec naes ?

Tree
Putting one of the names in first name section would work particularly well for scottish heritage where the first name tradition s
Often include grandparents surname