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unusual facts about maiden name



Frederic Hill

Frederic Hill was born at Hilltop, a house at the summit of Gough Street, Birmingham, the sixth child of Thomas Wright Hill and Sarah, his wife, whose maiden name was Lea.

John Denison-Pender

Pender (he assumed the additional name of Denison, his mother's maiden name, in 1890) was the third son of Sir John Pender, the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company.

Perry-Payne Building

Begun in 1888 and completed in the following year, the Perry-Payne Building was named for its owner and his family: it was erected for politician Henry B. Payne, and "Perry" was his wife's maiden name.

Veda Brown

He won her a contract with Stax Records in 1971, and she took the stage name of Veda Brown — Brown being her mother's maiden name, and Veda being picked at random in a sweepstake organised by the Stax office secretaries.


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Adelina de Lara

She was married to Thomas Johnson Shipwright, and after her son Denis Shipwright divorced his first wife her grandson Edward, a tenor, took his mother's maiden name (Hain) as his surname.

Anna Cabot Lowell

She was the wife of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., son of Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. Her maiden name was Jackson.

Anne Savage

Anne Savage, maiden name of Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley (c. 1496–before 1546), lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England

Arden Shakespeare

Arden was the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, Mary, however the primary reference of the enterprise's title is named after the Forest of Arden, in which Shakespeare's As You Like It is set.

August Chełkowski

Born in the small village of Telkwice, then in East Prussia (then a part of Weimar Republic) he was a son of Franciszek Chełkowski, a wealthy landowner and prominent activist of the Polish community in Prussia and his wife Emilia (maiden name Mieczkowska).

Benigno Aquino, Sr.

After Maria died in March 1928, he married Aurora Aquino (maiden name), his third cousin, on December 6, 1930, with whom he had the following children—Maria Aurora (Maur), Benigno Simeon, Jr. (Ninoy), Maria Gerarda (Ditas), Maria Guadalupe (Lupita), Agapito (Butz), Paul, and Maria Teresa (Tessie).

Berners Bay

Berners Bay, Point Bridget, and Point St. Marys were named by George Vancouver during his 1790s expedition to chart the Alaskan coastline; his mother's maiden name was Bridget Berners and she was born in St. Mary's Wiggenhall.

Cake Like

Its members were bassist and lead singer Kerri Kenney-Silver (under her then maiden name Kerri Kenney), drummer Jody Seifert and vocalist and guitarist Nina Hellman.

Caleb Fleming

His father was a hosier; his mother, whose maiden name was Buxton, was a daughter of the lord of the manor of Chelmerton, Derbyshire.

Champernowne

Kat Ashley, maiden name Katherine Champernowne, governess and friend of Elizabeth I

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), starring comedians Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, bear no resemblance to the original book or 1950 film, except that both feature a family with twelve children, though the mother's maiden name is Gilbreth.

Christine Theiss

Christine Anna Maria Theiss, maiden name Hennig, born February 22, 1980 in Greiz, Germany, is a German female kickboxer.

Cruella de Ville

Phil has written a book (Memories of the Irish-Israeli War) and a play (Together Against Him, which was awarded a bursary by The Arts Council of Great Britain) under the name Phil O'Brien (O'Brien is the Munizers' mother's maiden name) and has served as dramaturge for the Royal National Theatre.

Émile Duclaux

Duclaux's second wife, Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (maiden name Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 1857–1944), was a well-known author, and his son, Jacques Eugène Duclaux (1877–1978), was a highly regarded chemist.

Enid Bagnold

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981), known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.

Enver Mamedov

Enver Mammadov's mother's maiden name was Ivanov, and he occasionally used it as his pen name during his media career.

Eunice Cole

Eunice Cole (c. 1590, England - October 1680, Hampton, New Hampshire, USA), maiden name unknown, was a woman from the coast of New Hampshire.

Francis X. Murphy

Under the pseudonym Xavier Rynne, combining his middle name and his mother's maiden name, he revealed the inner workings of Vatican II to The New Yorker.

Galina Samsova

The following year, 1961, she joined the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto, having simplified the spelling of her maiden name from Samtsova to Samsova.

Gayla Peevey

She is best known for her recording, under her maiden name Gayla Peevey, of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" (Columbia 4-40106, 1953).

Gustav Simon

When the war ended, Simon went into hiding using his mother's maiden name in Upsprunge, a community in Salzkotten, Westphalia, where he posed as a gardener.

Hauke-Bosak

By his wife Johanna Barbara of an unknown maiden name he had ten children, of whom two sons, Johannn Valentin (1698–1722) and Ignatz Marianus (1706–1784) came to important positions: Johann continued the family tradition of employment at the Court of Justice in Wetzlar, while Ignatz became a secretary to the Government of the Electorate of Mainz.

Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.

Higino A. Acala, Sr.

He married a native of Bugho named Beatrize A. Maballo (maiden name) with whom had the following children - Evelyn (Belyn), Higino, Jr. (Boy), Brenilyn (Nilyn).

Hugo Island

The island was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Dr. J.B. Charcot, who named it for the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo, grandfather of Charcot's first wife, whose maiden name was Jeanne Hugo.

Jamie Brown

Jamie Anne Allman, American actress whose maiden name is Jamie Brown

Joan Astley

Jane Meutas, Jane or Joan, maiden name Astley, lady-in-waiting

Joan Gamper

Hans-Max Gamper (his mother's maiden name – Haessig – is generally appended in Spanish sources) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Karolina Kaczorowska

Karolina Kaczorowska (maiden name Mariampolska) (born September 26, 1930 in Stanisławów) is a widow of Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Republic of Poland in exile, and thus the last emigree First Lady (1989-1990).

M. K. Ashby

She was one of the daughters of Joseph Ashby and his wife Hannah Ashby (Ashby also being her maiden name).

Margaret Chan

:This is a Chinese name; Fung is the maiden name and Chan is the married name.

Mary Jane Lewis

Mary Jane Innes (1852–1941), New Zealand brewery manager with the maiden name Lewis

Maurice Griffiths

He met his second wife, Marjorie, known as "Coppie" from her maiden name of Copson in December 1944 while based with the RNVR at HMS Vernon.

Michi Takahashi

Michi Takahashi (real name: Michiyo Takahashi, Christian name: Saint Mary Chiara, maiden name: Yoshimura, born July 22, 1963) is a teddy bear artist in Japan.

Oakden, South Australia

The area, which includes land formerly known as Gilles Plains and a small portion of SA Housing Trust properties and land from Hillcrest, was renamed 'Oakden' in 1993 after the maiden name of the wife of Osmond Gilles, who was South Australia's first Colonial Treasurer.

Peter Westenthaler

He assumed his mother's maiden name Westenthaler instead of his former surname Hojač (Czech).

Ray McKinley

McKinley's biggest hit with Bradley, as a singer, was "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", which he recorded early in the year 1940 (and for which he got partial songwriting credit under his wife's maiden name Eleanore Sheehy).

Riggs-Miller baronets

Born John Miller, he assumed the additional surname of Riggs in 1765, which was the maiden name of his wife, Anna, daughter and heiress of Edward Riggs.

Russell Martin

Russell is from his father (Russell Martin, Sr.), Nathan is from his great-grandfather, Jeanson is the maiden name of his mother (Suzanne), and Coltrane is also from his dad to pay homage to John Coltrane.

The Lennon Sisters

The California Birth Index lists the maiden name for the mother of all the Lennon children as Denning.

Victor Noir

Son of a Jewish cobbler who had converted to Catholicism, born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he adopted "Victor Noir" as his pen name after his mother's maiden name.

William Duffus Hunt

Josiah Paul Tippetts changed his surname to Paul (his mother's maiden name) becoming Josiah Paul Paul after inheriting Highgrove from his Uncle John Paul.

William Sistrom

Dan assumed Mrs. Sistrom's maiden name as a stage name and was known as Dan Rowan.

Yukio Ozaki

He married teacher and folklore author Yei Theodora Ozaki, who was not related to him despite sharing the same surname as her maiden name.