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Maiden name or adopted name

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Florence61

Florence61 Report 7 Sep 2021 15:06

Thankyou names

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 7 Sep 2021 14:53

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.

Florence61

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