Virginia records is all I'm interested in, on this subject, so your answer  
is very helpful !
Thanks,
    Carole
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2011 8:38:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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In my  experience, and it's only in VA records, the legal name of an 
illegitimate  child was always that of his/her mother. The father's name 
may 
have been  used in daily life but hardly ever on legal records. The only 
exception  that I've found was when the individual moved to another 
location 
where  the circumstances of his/her birth were not known. The practice 
seemed 
to  be reversing  during the 2nd half of the 1800s. I'm sure there were 
cases  
where this didn't apply, but I'm speaking of records in  general.

Ann
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Ann Avery Hunter
Winston-Salem,  NC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carole D. Bryant"  <[log in to unmask]>
To:  <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:20  PM
Subject: [VA-ROOTS] surname of illegitimate child ?


> In  the early 1800s, what seems to have been the policy or practice of
>  naming an illegitimate child?  Would he or she take his natural  father's
> surname or that of his mother? If this policy or practice  reversed at 
> some point
> in time, approximately when did the  change occur?
>
> Thanks for the help !
>     Carole

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