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meatcleaver -> RE: Man fights to take wife's surname (1/15/2007 3:27:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: mignoette
In europe when a Bloodline ran out the firstborn always had the mothers last name especially in cases of the monarchy, or the husband took the wifes last name when they married. if they could do so in the middle ages why can't we do so in the so called modern world?
Many countries didn't have surnames until Napoleonic times when Napoleon insisted on surnames for administrative reasons. For example in Holland there are many surnames that were created as a joke under the French occupation, however, their descendents have to suffer the indignity of being on the butt end of an ancestors joke such as Poepjes (Little shit), Piest (Piss), Rotmenson (Rotten people). Koedood (Dead Cow), Naaktgeboren (Born naked), Zondervan (No surname), Uiekruier (Onion crier)
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