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How can a female child have a different last name than birth parents,
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Emily Cook
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Jun 28, 2021
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Diane Blevins
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By the way the link to the marriage doesn’t work for me.
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I usually see it happen when a woman has more than one husband. Sometimes the name of her first husband is mistaken for her maiden name.
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She might be adopted or a cousin taken in by a relative.
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Jun 28, 2021
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Dennis Hutchins
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Or a child raised by grandparents.
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I mean, I did/do.
It's basically due to patronymics but there's a bit more detail that would be distracting.
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