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Wood or Dine?? Why two surnames?
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Julie | Report | 19 Jul 2007 11:54 |
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Does anyone have a theory or their own experience of this? I have a succession of Brighton born ancestors who were baptised with the surname 'wood or dine'. I could understand a single case being that of perhaps two unwed parents but to have two surnames for generations?? my gt Grandfather was baptised John wood-dine, sometimes used Woodine and became Dine though I havent traced his death as yet. His father was bapt Thomas Wood or Dine as was his father. Why??? |
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Devon Dweller | Report | 19 Jul 2007 13:05 |
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It may be a case of just tradition that stuck and if you manage to get back far enough find where the original Wood and Dine were. I have it in my family a few generations back and again now. Some as a double barreled surname some as middle then surname. Sheila |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 19 Jul 2007 13:09 |
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It isnt easy to explain, but I would imagine if you go back far enough, you will probably find illegitimacy. As the only written records would be the church register, probably, then baptisms would bear the name 'Wood or Dine'. This baptism record may have been required to prove who they were and again they would be recorded as Wood or Dine. By the time they were having to give their surname more often, it was possibly ingrained in them that their name was Wood or Dine, and possibly they thought they might get into trouble if they didnt say so! I have found this quite a lot in Lancashire parish records. It usually indicates illegitimacy, but there was another spiteful practice by Vicars - if the parents of the child were known to be members of a nonconformist church or group, then the Vicar would take the high moral ground that they were not married in the eyes of God, or had not been baptised in the eyes of God, and therefore had no right to assume a married name. OC |
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Teddys Girl | Report | 21 Jul 2007 15:31 |
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I often wondered why in my maternal side of the family they had a doubled barrelled name, and on trawling through some Kentish records, came across a very interesting fact. A shipbuilder's daughter married a labourer, and the name they married in was her surname last, and his surname first.This was the beginning of my maternal ancestors double barrelled name. So the name of the Shipbuilder went on. |
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