Scottish Surnames and Location. The Meaning of Irish Surnames. Tracing Your Ancestors By Name. We have been investigating our surname and found that Pama is not our original one. It should be Nomyayi. It is going to be difficult to change it but it is imperative to do so. Mia - 2-Feb PM. Enter word:. Surnames and Genealogy Case Study Ask Our Experts Basics of Genealogy Family History Resources In medieval England , surnames didn't even exist.
The citizenry was known only by their first name. Fast-forward to the 21st century, and women take their husbands in sickness and in health—and they take their last name. But where did this tradition even come from? And are there alternatives? What if same-sex couples want to do the same? Ahead, we take a look at the history behind this common practice, answer frequently asked questions, and offer alternatives to taking your husband's surname.
Sometime after the Norman Conquest, the Normans introduced the idea of coverture to the English, and the seeds of a long-standing tradition were planted. With her identity essentially erased under the law of coverture , women could not own property or enter into contracts on their own. Husbands had complete control over their wives, legally and financially. There was no expiration date of coverture laws per se. Instead, the laws just sort of fell out of favor and faded away. No doubt, the suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century helped contribute to its demise.
It's a big decision to change your last name, even on occasion as momentous as your marriage. Here are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the practice. For some, taking their husband's last name simply serves to solidify the commitment.
It's a gesture that leaves no room for doubt—changing their surname after marriage shows they're all in. For others, taking their husbands' surname is more about the status of the family unit—when there is a family unit to speak of. Having a different last name than your spouse is unlikely to confuse your children. While a shared last name may sidestep intrusive questions, research shows that having parents with different surnames rarely meddles with a child's identity.
I am satisfied the usage of passing acts of Parliament for the taking upon one a surname is but modern; and that any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames as he pleases, without an act of Parliament. The same point was made in the case of Pyot v Pyot , where Lord Hardwicke held that —.
This [case, i. Pyot v Pyot ] is like that case in the House of Lords , which was a devise on condition of marrying a person of his name Barlow v Bateman, 3 P. The lady married a person who changed his name to that in the will: the House of Lords held this voluntary change was not within the benefit of the bequest, nor a performance of the condition of the will.
In resolving this question, Chief Justice Ellenborough pointed out that the said George Smith had been known by that name alone in the parish where he lived, and thus held —. The object of the statute in the publication of banns was to secure notoriety, to apprize all persons of the intention of the parties to contract marriage; and how can that object be better attained, than by a publication in the name by which the party is known?
On these grounds I think that the Act only meant to require that the parties should be published by their known and acknowledged names.
In other words, the court held that the true surname in the context of the Marriage Act was simply the surname by which a person is generally known within the parish where they live. The same thing was held by Sullivan v Sullivan otherwise Oldacre 2 Hagg.
Surnames were introduced to England in about the 10 th or 11 th century, but only started to gain ground at about the time of the Norman conquest. It was possible, and not considered odd, for different members of the same family to spell their surname a different way, for example.
There is a great difference between a mistake in the name of baptism, and in the sirname; for a man can have but one name of baptism, but may have two sirnames. He held that —. Anciently men took most commonly their sur-names from their places of habitation, especially men of estate, and artizans often took their names from their arts, but yet the law is not so precise in the case of sur-names, and therefore a grant made by, or to John, son and heir of I.
In his judgment , Lord Lindley held —. We are not now sitting as a Committee for Privileges to determine a claim to the dignity created and granted by the letters patent, He then concluded, that the dispute between the parties was reduced to a dispute about the use of a name i.
Speaking generally the law of this country allows any person to assume and use any name, provided its use is not calculated to deceive and to inflict pecuniary loss.
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