I am the latest in a long line of Elizabeths, and some of the earlier ones did have their mothers maiden name as well. What is more my grandmothers family bible listed the family only through the female line - it was lost/destroyed on her death while I was overseas, but oh how I wish I had it now! It went back to one ancestor washed up on the West coast from the Armada, who took his wifes name. Now I have hit a brick wall only three generations back!