Show involved in ob carity the gratice of the wife assuming toe tae husbands name at marriage according to dr brewer originated from a roman custom and became the common custom after the roman occupation thus julia and octavia married to pompey and cicero v wee we e called by the romans julia of pompey and octavia of cicero and in later times married w women omen IP in most european countries signed their names in the same manner but omitted the of against this view it may mav be mentioned that during the six tenh nth and even at the beginning of the seventeenth century the usage seems doubtful since we find that catharine parr so signed herself after she had been twice married and wis wa always hear of lady jane grey not dudley arabella stuart not seymour etc some persons think that the custom originated from the scriptural teaching that husband and wife are one this was the rule so 0 o far back as braton died 1268 and it was decided in the case of bon vs smith in the reign of elizabeth that a women by marriage loses her former name and legally receives that of her husband altogether the custom Is involved in much obscurity philadelphia ledger |