OK, I didn't think I was going to jump into the midst of the
nomenclatural frolic, but what the heck. It's been an interesting
thread and answered several questions I often pondered. Now with my
mother being Dutch, when she married my American father, she followed
Dutch tradition and used her married surname first, followed by her
maiden name (Weed-van Dijk.)
Now with regard to Jean's comment here, I knew a gentleman back home
(Key West, Florida) originally from Scotland, I believe, named Denys
Fitzpatrick. It seems his family were all titled at some point, but
then during his father's time, the monarch stripped him and his heirs of
their title. I'm not sure, but I think it was over some minor affront
of some sort -- that's what I vaguely remember Denys telling me years
ago. His father got around it by making "Lord" or "Lady" part of his
children's names.
I'm also thinking that the use of hyphenated names in the U.S. is a
relatively new thing. It used to be rare to see it, and then only
(usually) among the more affluent "society." Now I see it quite a bit
among all types of people. I work in a hospital medical records
department, and often end up processing stacks of birth certificate
worksheets for inclusion into the mother's chart. Sometimes the married
mother is hyphenated; sometimes the baby is, regardless of whether or
not the parents are married at the time.
Thurlow
Lancaster OH
Jean Nathan wrote:
A girl I once worked with joined the AA (car breakdown service), and
the membership arrived in the name of Lady whatever-her-real-name-was.
So from then on she decided to be known as that, saying that it wasn't
a title - her first name was now "Lady".
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