Hi Richard Thanks for your email. Confirmation that this sort of thing actually happened. Carole -----Original Message----- From: Richard Teagle [mailto:r.teagle@wales.ac.uk] Sent: 15 April 2005 10:54 To: ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [HWK] Alias names Hi Sue and others - Bastardy is probably the cause in many cases, but among my JACOB ancesters from N Wilts in 1600s/1700s I came across a declaration in a Will that where there was no male heir to carry on the JACOB name, the eldest son of the eldest daughter was to take the surname JACOB, and if the eldest daughter had no sons it was to the the eldest son of the second born daughter and so on. Fortunately his only son survived him, otherwise I could see a potential problem for us genealogists in the future, but have been wondering if situations such as this occurred in other families and could be another possible explanation for the two surnames separated by "alias". Was one the birth surname and the other the acquired surname? Richard ----Original Message----- From: SSiss165@aol.com [mailto:SSiss165@aol.com] Sent: 15 April 2005 10:18 To: ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HWK] MARTEN als WATTS and sim. names Just an idle thought ....... and please shoot me down in flames if need be. I've been puzzling about the incidence of 'als' names - especially as some examples seem to continue for several generations. We have Carole's example of MARTEN als WATTS. In the Oldbury registers we have ALLENE als CHAPPE and I seem to recall seeing *** als POWELL somewhere along the line. Some 'one off' instances appear to result from bastardy. I can't help wondering whether some other instances may just be early examples of double barrelled names, e.g. a MARTEN married a WATTS and combined the surname to be MARTIN-WATTS. This would explain why the combined name survived for several generations - perhaps only ceasing when there were no males to carry it forward to the next generation. What do you think? Sue ==== ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY Mailing List ==== Visit Robert Millard's local and family history web pages at http://www.hawkesburyhistory.co.uk. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.11 - Release Date: 14/04/2005