Name Change

[sunnysan]

Random question

Does anybody here know whether on the late 1800s , names changes would have been recorded anywhere in England,

I am trying to track down an ancestor and I have a suspicion they changed their name.

 

[EternalOptimist]

Random question

Does anybody here know whether on the late 1800s , names changes would have been recorded anywhere in England,

I am trying to track down an ancestor and I have a suspicion they changed their name.

Dont know the answer, but I know that people changed name to avoid persecution or to disguise nationality.

What did they change it to ?

 

[Zippy]

Try the National Archive web site

 

[Gonzo]

Random question

Does anybody here know whether on the late 1800s , names changes would have been recorded anywhere in England,

I am trying to track down an ancestor and I have a suspicion they changed their name.

I have never heard of any register of name changes being kept.

After all, the country doesn't have a centralised national identity database does it?

 

[Zippy]

This might help but it sounds like you'll need a bit of luck.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=176&j=1

 

[sunnysan]

Dont know the answer, but I know that people changed name to avoid persecution or to disguise nationality.

What did they change it to ?

Thank you people,

I suspect the change was something Jewish or Gypsy(Maybe East European Origin) to a very common English surname.

 

[Advocate]

Thank you people,

I suspect the change was something Jewish or Gypsy(Maybe East European Origin) to a very common English surname.

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor eh?

 

[OwlHoot]

Random question

Does anybody here know whether on the late 1800s , names changes would have been recorded anywhere in England,

I am trying to track down an ancestor and I have a suspicion they changed their name.

If your surname is Fitzalan Howard, your ancestor may have been a Mr Bugg, who changed his name to that in the late 19th century.

Unfortunately it didn't have quite the intended result, because not long afterward everyone started calling bed bugs and suchlike Fitzalan Howards

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

Thank you people,

I suspect the change was something Jewish or Gypsy(Maybe East European Origin) to a very common English surname.

Was he once: Montague John Druitt, or George Chapman, or Aaron Kosminski, or Michael Ostrog, John Pizer, Francis Tumblety?

 

[sunnysan]

Nope

Nope

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor eh?

Nor Battenburg to Mountbatten

One of the things I think I can be relatively sure of is that I have not a jot of royal blood.