Nova wrote:
- but they began to find it
awkward for their little children to try to teach them to use the *Mr and
Mrs*
title when speaking to the other adults so they elected to use the first
names (the children were already familiar with) - but adding Mr. or
Mrs. for a sign of
On 25 Aug 2006, at 12:47, Margery Allcock wrote:
I was born to Dorothy and William Burgh. My father said that, with a
surname like Burgh, nobody needed a middle name for identification, so
I
never had one.
My Mother used to be Dorothy May Smith; as a child there was another
Dorothy
May
Arachne
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: Surnames
On Aug 23, 2006, at 17:52, Alice Howell wrote:
Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding
a married name to the end of the maiden name.
You don't know the half :)
When I got married (1973), my husband told me that the custom (which
A quote which I wrote out some years ago from a genealogy book says,
To create a little distinction, some people, particularly those who
had, or felt they had, some authority or standing, added their
mothers' maiden names to their surnames
So it looks as if there is no end to the reasons why
On Aug 23, 2006, at 17:52, Alice Howell wrote:
Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding
a married name to the end of the maiden name.
You don't know the half :)
When I got married (1973), my husband told me that the custom (which
I took to mean the Southern custom) was for the
