While it doesn't happen too often a bride and groom can have the same last name. I had one cousin who died relatively young under the same last name with which she was born. I assumed she was not married.
Wrong.
She had married a very distant cousin with the same last name and her last name never changed.
One set of my great-grandparents had the same last name (Morgan). Haven't yet found any link between them, but my records only go three generations back from them.
ReplyDeleteI have several cases of that too. Plus I have several women who married men with the same last name.
ReplyDeleteMegan Smolenyak Smolenyak is the perfect example!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have come across a couple of instances where the Husband took on the Wife's surname. So her last name didn't change but he almost became invisible!
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