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Chicken Run

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Jul 17, 2003
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I think that is becoming a lot more common nowadays. I know a fair few women who have kept their own surname when they marry simply because it is easier in their work life/career.[/QUOTE
My first wife kept my surname so she doesn't want anything to do with that (quite rightly) plus she wants to carry on her family name.
 




Munkfish

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May 1, 2006
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He's was born Jake Caskey & has not married a Foster...I've really no idea why his name shouldn't still be his birth one

He wanted to show some respect to the man who jas brought him up most of his life. I think its a lovely gesture to make to his step dad.
 






Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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I think that is becoming a lot more common nowadays. I know a fair few women who have kept their own surname when they marry simply because it is easier in their work life/career.

Frau Tubthumper kept her name. Neither of us saw any point in her changing it.
 




Herr Tubthumper

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Where I worked a little while ago, we had a customer whose surname was Hyphen-Hyphen, it must have been done by deed poll.

What was their first name?
 


Sheebo

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Jul 13, 2003
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I know at least three men who've added their partner's surname on to their own when they got married.

(Two married to women, the other a civil partnership with another guy). There have been a couple of footballers who've taken their wives' names too, one was Ian Thomas-Moore & I forget the other.

We essentially did this. My wife particularly wanted to carry on her name due to personal reasons so we went double barrelled when we married also with a view to our child having the same surname as us both - which she has :)

No shame in it imo
 


vegster

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May 5, 2008
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HovaGirl

I'll try a breakfast pie
Jul 16, 2009
3,139
West Hove
I hate them and would have changed my name if I had been given one of those. The tripled barreled ones are just snobbishness.

It's not snobbishness. It was often done as a prerequisite to inheriting land through a will.
 


HovaGirl

I'll try a breakfast pie
Jul 16, 2009
3,139
West Hove
It's not really relevant to this but my middle name is my mother's maiden name. It has often been done in our family and I think it's nice - it keeps a woman's name alive for one more generation at least.

I've done the same with both of my sons.
 






edna krabappel

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W.C.

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Oct 31, 2011
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I know an Anne-Marie Denham-Staples-Jones.

A friend of mine, called Linda Harrison, married a bloke named Charles Pinder. To avoid her being called Linda Pinder, the newlyweds changed their names to Harrison-Pinder.

:lol:
Spoilsports

Reminds me of Alan Partridge, 'Wanda, you know, if you married Glen you'd be Wanda Ponder. But that's not going to happen...'
 






Danny-Boy

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Apr 21, 2009
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The Coast
I know at least three men who've added their partner's surname on to their own when they got married.

(Two married to women, the other a civil partnership with another guy). There have been a couple of footballers who've taken their wives' names too, one was Ian Thomas-Moore & I forget the other.

Years ago there was an Ian Storey-Moore playing for Notts Forest who cut it back to Ian Moore later when he went to Man U (I think).

The present MP for Brighton Kemptown used to be known as Simon Radford-Kirby when he was just a Councillor in the Hastings area. Now he's:

http://www.simonkirby.org/
 










dennis

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Aug 1, 2007
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Cornwall
I read somewhere that Colin Kazim Richards got his when his father registered the birth. He should have been Colin Richards with Kazim as his middle name but the registrar put Kazim Richards as double barrelled and it wasn't noticed until much later.
 


KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007
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Wolsingham, County Durham


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