son takes fiancee’s last name

Jones, Davies, Price And Powell: What Welsh Surnames Teach The Man From Ealing About Heritage

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Jones, Davies, Price And Powell: What Welsh Surnames Teach The Man From Ealing About Heritage – A London journalist with Welsh roots reads about a father threatening to disinherit the Labrador over his son’s surname and explains how Britain’s names were always made, changed and borrowed

Crowther Took An English Clergyman’s Name, And The Sky Did Not Fall On Birmingham

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Crowther Took An English Clergyman’s Name, And The Sky Did Not Fall On Birmingham – A Lagos-born poet reads about a father outraged that his son will take his bride’s surname and considers how names travel in Yoruba tradition and nineteenth-century African lives