If a child was born out of marriage and then the parents married – would the child change surname ? Or add on the second name to have two surnames?
I have an ancestor whose birth I cannot trace : on her marriage entry her name is given as Catherine Johnston but on the birth certificate of her child born a year after(1853) her maiden name changes to Catherine Johnston Sleight. Her death was registered by her husband Richard Wood and gives her father’s name as David Sleigh but mother’s name as unknown.
I’m totally puzzled….
Many thanks for any ideas/info.
Mo-anne.
Surname of children born out of marriage
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Hi Mo-Anne
I think people could use names as they pleased and often did (although I have no idea of any rules specific to Scotland).
I have just been checking a family in Tasmania, Australia. The mother gave one name for her first 7 children's birth records and a different name for the final three. The mother's mother just happened to marry (at age 53) before the name change. Whether the man she married was, in fact the father of her daughter, I have no idea, but the daughter who had already had 7 children, instantly took his name.
Trish
I think people could use names as they pleased and often did (although I have no idea of any rules specific to Scotland).
I have just been checking a family in Tasmania, Australia. The mother gave one name for her first 7 children's birth records and a different name for the final three. The mother's mother just happened to marry (at age 53) before the name change. Whether the man she married was, in fact the father of her daughter, I have no idea, but the daughter who had already had 7 children, instantly took his name.
Trish