A bump from a question asked some time ago but still not sure what to use (basically their LNAB is an alias name)
In the 17th century, they used almost interchangeably the names Fitzhugh, Caporne and Fitzhugh alias Caporne.
Anthony married in 1622 as a Fitzhugh, his first child was baptised as Katherine Fitzhugh but she was buried within days as an infant with the name Katherine Caporne. The other children were baptised as Caporne . So here we would have one child named Fitzhugh and all the siblings as Caporne
His son, also an Anthony, was baptised as Caporne but married as a Fitzhugh and his (Anthony the younger's) son Marmaduke applied for a marriage licence using the full version "Fitzhugh alias Caporne" but the parish register entry for that marriage is for a Caporne. This use of either Caporne or Fitzhugh and with the occasional use of the full alias name carries on for some generations until eventually the name settles as Caporne
These ancestors are from Northamptonshire There are a handful of records in the National Archives that include Fitzhugh alias Capornes. The Northamptonshire, Vic County History also mentions that a Richard Fitzhugh alias Caporne had land in Alderton and Stoke Bruerne
One of those sites that sells crested knickknacks (so I'm very sceptical) says
" An English family by the name of Capron trace their descent from William Caperun who held lands at Shutlanger. Northants in the 13th century. In 1531 Thomas Caprun married into the Fitzhugh family, and his descendants adopted the name Fitzhugh"
Maybe my lot had these posh distant cousins and carried on using both names for centuries . They certainly weren't rich though I first see them as carters but by the early 19th Century they were recipients of parish relief
Edited to add, this isn't just one family with this problem. My husbands family has Ford alias Lawrence in the registers and there are many more similar 'alias' names.
There isn't a profile to link to as I still don't know what name to use as an LNAB
