Hi.... What about a female who marries and the male takes her Maiden Name in marriage? David ----- Original Message ---- From: Leslie Bush <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 4:48:06 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Reasons for birth name being the same as mother's maiden name Hi, I have come across this many, many times in my one name study. Statistically, from 1911 to 2005, there were 1361 births recorded by the GRO where the surname of the mother and the mother's maiden surname are BUSH.  In the period 1911 to 1981 (which is as far as I have reached with my marriage transcriptions), there are just 138 instances of  a BUSH marrying a BUSH. So I am inclined to believe that the bulk of those 1361 births were illegitimate - in which case, the maiden name and surname will of course be the same.  I cannot readily think of any explanation other than the two you have already mentioned which would account for this. Les [email protected] wrote: > Hi Folks, >  Something I come across a lot, and it's more easily seen when the transcriptions start giving mmn c1911, is the birth name being the same as the mother's maiden name. I can think of a couple of reason's for this. Obviously a same name marriage, eg a JONES marrying a JONES. The parents being unmarried and the father not wishing to be associated or unknown would be the second reason. > > Has anybody come across any other reasons as to why a child would have the mother's maiden name? > > Pete > >  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message