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Originally Posted by threedoggies
"Some double-barrelled names are formed in order to prevent a family name otherwise dying out, due to the lack of males in a generation or when notable property is inherited through the female line with a stipulation that the individual inheriting use the family name."
He did say he did it for his son with respect to his wife's family. They probably don't have a male in the family to carry on the family name. So he took hers with his and it is now a double-barrellled name.
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It is a perfectly common thing to do. My sister did that when she married.
In the past if a person brought the money into the family their name was included as in Bowes-Lyon. The Bowes were wealthy coal owners and the Lyon family were the poor Duke's of Strathmore