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Member Since: December 2008 Posts: 4,880 Send Message	Florence61	Report	7 Sep 2021 14:38
	Does anyone know what name a person would use when they get married if they were adopted but knew their mmn? If a child was born but the parents died and they were given up for adoption, once they reached adult hood and they traced their birth relations, would they use their adoptive surname as their maiden name on a marriage cert or could they use their actual birth surname as their maiden name? Florence in the hebrides
	Researching: house/hampshire prophet/cheshire skinner/kent
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 6,508 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	7 Sep 2021 14:53
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 6,508 Send Message	If it was a formal adoption then your legal.name is the adoption one. I suppose you could add an ‘also known as….’ using the birth name.
Member Since: December 2008 Posts: 4,880 Send Message	Florence61	Report	7 Sep 2021 15:06
	Thankyou names
	Researching: house/hampshire prophet/cheshire skinner/kent