Maybe your wifes surname is a little more different, and you can start using that........
Maybe your wifes surname is a little more different, and you can start using that........
With Smyth as my surname I have often considered changing it back to the Irish version Mcgabhan, I know my family are from Cavanwell back as far as great great grandfather and that the English anglicised the name to smyth.
is it possible to offically change surname back an dif so any ideas on how to go about it.
(in case anyone is wondering why its just that I hate the name smyth, its so common and I cringe when I book a hotel.......you can hear them thinking smyth yea right...)
Not unless she refunds the money I spent on the engagement ring and pays for the bloody wedding (next December) I'll check out the deed pol thing cheers
Thats an odd thing to say. Why does it matter who pays for the wedding?
I think thats a really strange reaction. I'm not sure how the thousands of Smith/Smyths out there would feel about that . If your're worried about what the check in staff of a hotel are thinking about you I think you need to book onto a self esteem course pronto
Self -esteem is not an issue I simply think the name is as common as much and have never liked it, also I would like my kids to have a more traditional Irish surname. What others with the surname think or feel about their's is of no concern to me. Its a personal thing
A name being as common as muck as you say is not a negative thing.
It means that your distance male ancestors have been genetically more successful than others.
Alot of Mac Gabhanns anglicised to Mac Gowan ,its possible you are a Smyth of english descent and your family were never McGabhan
I think thats a really strange reaction. I'm not sure how the thousands of Smith/Smyths out there would feel about that . If your're worried about what the check in staff of a hotel are thinking about you I think you need to book onto a self esteem course pronto
It may be but who ever mentioned that name before in this thread?Well said. Besides, I thought a McGrabbin was a hamburger ordered on a drive-thru ?
Ah, apologies, sounded like it. Imagine causing difficulties for everyone you meet in life - not just in Ireland - by deliberately changing your name to an awkward to spell and pronounce name that nobody has ever heard of. Might be handy though for dodging old bills.
Still its a free world , thank God, and the poster has the right to change his name to whatever he / she wants, by deed poll I assume. I would have no problem with that.
To paraphrase capall ... eh!?!Imagine causing difficulties for everyone you meet in life - not just in Ireland - by deliberately changing your name to an awkward to spell and pronounce name that nobody has ever heard of.
You mean peelers?Might be handy though for dodging old bills.
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