why would you change your surname?

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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Crista	Report	23 Jun 2005 20:55
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Daphne, I doubt he changed his name. More likely the enumerator messed up when he wrote the name in the census book. Names were written on household returns first and then copied into the census pages we can view. Crista
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 102 Send Message	Daphne	Report	23 Jun 2005 20:17
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 102 Send Message	I have just got a marriage cert today,only to find it was my gt.gt.grandfathers wedding and he is down as a widower .He married a Hannah and this was another Hannah.Which I can now see fits.In the 1881 census Hannah age did not work out. Any how I have found the first Hannah died in 1870 and he married again another Hannah in 1871.It is this Hannah on the 1881 census.But on the 1871 census would not find him.Only to find him there after all but as Humphrey Banham.With 2 of his young children.I think his father ,s father had this name.Why would you give your name on the census as Banham afther losing a wife.And the next year marry as a Lusher again?Sorry to go on but what a funny thing to do. Daphne