« Reply #25 on: Saturday 08 May 21 07:45 BST (UK) »
Has anyone ever come accross a last name change while still in the their birth country and using the fathers real surname on documents?
I have 2 cases of surname changes.
Is it possible John Doyle left Ireland for a specific reason, one which he may have felt he needed to change his surname
How did you figure out they'd changed names?
Gist of it is, I've got a john Doyle who's father's surname is Dunegen on his civl marriage record. I Have a feeling John Doyle might actually been John Dunegan, changed it for whatever reason. But kept the surmane Doyle to get his Army Pension and a job guarding on a convict ship
Mine actually state 'Previously' with their original surname.
Could John Doyle have been illegitimate although he knew his father's name, didn't know him personally & preferred to keep his 'birth' name?
Annie
Add...Is not not odd, if his mother was Catherine Christina, out of 3 daughters none are named after his mother?
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie
Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)
Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling
Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon
Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee
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