Do you think we are an odd family?

mrs_overall | 12:32 Tue 19th Apr 2011 | ChatterBank

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When I married Mr O I decided not to take his surname. Our 3 kids were given double barrelled surnames. The eldest now uses his dad's surname only, the middle child stayed double barrelled and the youngest has dropped his dad's surname. In a nutshell, all 3 kids have different surnames.
I've been talking to a pen-pusher in officialdom this morning and when I tried to explain all this there was a long pause before she said "what an odd family"

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Sqad

Let me get this clear in my own mind.
<<<<<When I married Mr O I decided not to take his surname.>>>>
<<<<<The eldest now uses his dad's surname only>>>>><<<<<<
<<<<< the middle child stayed double barrelled >>>>>
<<<<<<the youngest has dropped his dad's surname. In a nutshell,>>>>

Naaah! nothing odd there..............just bloody BIZARRE!!!!!

Sqad

P.S and the eldest one is a GOTH......no. all perfectly normal????

donegal

yes u have a odd family indeed , if ur kid with 2 surnames does what u did , he/she will have 3 surnames ...its all very mad

andy-hughes

I see nothing odd in not wishing to take your husband's surname - but i do have a minor issue with the concept of double-barelling names.

It infers that some kind of dynasty is at work here, and the name must be preserved, rather than dying out naturally.

i think there are very few DB names that sound anything other than pretentious - you may be luckly with your children's DB, I don't know. If it's something obvious ancient and really posh, like Cavannagh-Mainwairing, or Blashford-Snell, that always sounds suitable rich and important, but some of the more mundane names just appear a little off if DB'd.

I have daughters, so when I peg it, my line of the Hughes dynasty will vanish, and i have no problem with that at all. Since only my youngest daughter shares my name - the other two are married - I would not dream of asking her to become Mrs Hughes-Lewis (Lewis-Hughes?) when she gets mattied in October.

That said, I am very much for live and let live, so this is purely a personal view.

ummmm

I don't want to take my OH's name when we get married. He's quite offended by it.

No fear of my family name dying out....

wolf63

My family are even odder - my parents, my brother, his wife and three children all have the same surname as me and the kitties.

I was helping a woman fill up a benefit claim form once and we got to the bit about her children - she had about five or six of them. They all had different fathers, not at all unusual these days, but she had a problem working out the details for the respective fathers of these offspring. ;-)

cazzz1975

am I the only person who would be happy to take my oh's surname?

milly143

No Cazz, I would want to take my oh name if we get married.

Should have seen my sisters when my brother got married and she kept her own surname. They were maaaaad! Although she's restored their faith a little now as their baby has our surname.