Maiden Name

My father of German descent, my mother of Danish -- my nom de plume (which was her maiden-name) is ❋ Various (N/A)

Empowered by Act of Parliament to retain her maiden-name after marriage, she showed her disesteem for her husband's patronymic by her mode of exercising the privilege secured to her by special law; and many ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)

He made his name, the only name he was legally entitled to bear -- his poor wronged mother's maiden-name -- illustrious in the annals of our nation! ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

Yet there was a time when Rose Grafton -- such was the pretty maiden-name of Nurse Toothaker -- possessed beauty that would have gladdened this dim and dismal chamber as with sunshine. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

On the other hand the same individual might at different times be listed under different names (e.g. women who are listed both under their maiden-name and their married name). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s APPOINTED U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton, who spilled the important maiden-name of Wilson’s wife … ❋ Unknown (2005)

{138} It is a coincidence which seems to merit a note, that on the very day on which these lines were penned it was the writer’s duty to unite in the bonds of wedlock a young woman whose mother’s maiden-name was Fynes, to her cousin, Charles Fynes: their common grandfather, Charles Pelham ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

I therefore beg that on the Day you receive this Mrs. Daniel [Footnote: It will be remembered that the maiden-name of Fielding's second wife, as given in the Register of St. Bene't's, was Mary Daniel. ❋ Dobson, Austin (1883)

I therefore beg that on the Day you receive this Mrs. Daniel [Footnote: It will be remembered that the maiden-name of ❋ Austin Dobson (1880)

My father of German descent, my mother of Danish -- my nom de plume (which was her maiden-name) is Danish -- with Protestant ancestors on her side, though she and I were Catholics -- my grandmother a sound and witty Parisian, gay, brilliant, lively, with superb physical health and the consequent good spirits -- surely these materials could not have produced other than a cosmopolitan being. " ❋ Unknown (1873)

Mrs. Daniel [Footnote: It will be remembered that the maiden-name of Fielding’s second wife, as given in the Register of St. Bene’t’s, was Mary Daniel. ❋ Unknown (1843)