Genealogy Chat

Anyone can revert back to maiden name for passport purposes by just sending divorce docs and birth cert.
Similarly we get women who remarry without reverting and their marriage cert just said (formally ***) or (previously known as).
God help us is someone marries several times, there wouldn't be enough room. lol

Thanks Shelly

that's interesting to now

just to make things even more complicated, if a second marriage ended in divorce, the woman's surname would be that of her first husband on the third marriage certificate! such was the case of my gt gt grandmother

sorry in delay in replying

thankyou to the people who replied on here

I never thought of illegitimacy, maybe worth lookng at
as may explain why surname change on marriage

on census's has same surname as others in house

Interestng

I reverted back to my maiden name before remarrying, but on my marriage certificate it states my maiden name followed by 'previously known as' then my first married name. A search of the records shows two entries, one in my maiden name and one in my first married name.

Sue

a womans surname (from birth) can be different from her fathers if she were illigitimate!

The indexes for marriages post 1911, sometimes show the female partner (when searched for from the male's ) as eg Joan Smith or Brown. Not having purchased one, presumably either Smith or Brown was her maiden name and the second her previous married name.

So i'm assuming that my person may have married
few times..
.as info i have been given isn't her maiden name

thankyou all for the reply's

I have several second marriages and the woman used her first married name - her father's name should be the same as her maiden name
Liz

To add, i have a 2nd marriage and for both marriages she used her maiden name, and i have both certificates, so it does follow that it never happened.

George

Generally they marry using their 1st married name, but I have got some reverting to maiden name.

Beware too of 'bachelor' or 'spinster' in a marriage register.. With some of my lot it just meant they were free to marry, NOT that it was it was a 1st marriage.

Gwyn

Thanks for prompt reply

I thought as much but thought better ask just in case

I don't think so as a few on my tree married for the 2nd time in their 1st married name (if that makes any sense!)

Bit of an odd quesion but
would a female have to revert back to
her maiden name for 2nd marriage ??

Thankyou