Changing the mothers name on birth certificate

shoe*diva79

Kimberley wrote: »

All my children had my surname because I didn't want them having a different name to mine. I don't think you can change her birth certificate but you can change her surname anytime.

Our daughter has her fathers surname which i am happy with, its my surname i want to change

shoe*diva79

meritaten wrote: »

This is copied from the Direct.gov site and I believe it applies in this case

Changing a child’s surname

You can only change a child’s surname in their original birth record to correct a spelling mistake.
However, a child can be re-registered in the following circumstances:

• to record the natural father's details in the birth record
• following the marriage of the natural parents, if they were not married at the time of the birth

In these circumstances, you are able to change the child’s surname to the mother’s or the father’s – or a combination of the two – as long as both parents agree to the change. If the child is 16 years of age or over, his or her written consent must be obtained before the surname can be changed.

Thanks, but i dont want to change my daughters name!!

shoe*diva79

Shelldean wrote: »

You can not change a correctly issued birth certificate.

My DD was born whilst I was married to her dad, in fact her dad registered her. We seperated when she was 3 mths.
I fell pregnant with twins (due just before her 3rd birthday)
My OH didn't want his twins having my married surname, and my EX still trying to control things refused to allow DD to change her surname to OH's. So I deed polled mine back to my maiden name, I then deed polled DD - WITH her dads permission.

Twins were registered in my maiden name, as was their younger brother 3yrs later. dad was not named as he couldn't get to the registrar office.

However when i married the boys dad in 2002. We re registered ALL of their births, into the married surname. This could be done as by marrying their Dad I'd legitimsed their births (registrars words not mine) They was issued with new certs in the married surname with their fathers details added.

I then tackled EX asking could DD please have the same name as her brothers. he did agree this time. And she was deed polled to the married name.

just means when she needs to prove who she is, she shows her birth cert in orginal name as well as the deedpoll stating new names. Never had a problem yet and she's 19 now.


edited to add - the boys can not get copies of their orginal maiden named entries in the registar, as it is no longer valid. That entry simply refers them to the later re-registered entry. And this is the cert that would be issued.
If DD wants a copy her is always issued in her orginal surname, as that was a correct entry and can not be changed

Thank you! I have a feeling the oly way to get around it so my married name is not noted on her cert is to marry her father and re-register her with out surnames all the same!

fluffnutter

But your name was 'X' at the time of your daughter's birth. It wasn't 'Y' so how can it be changed to something it wasn't?

tea_lover

Possibly slightly off-topic but I'm genuinely confused about people using deed poll to change their name back to their maiden names. I thought you could use either (or anything else for that matter)?

I'm divorced but still use my married name for most things. I use my maiden name for my medical records though. If my OH and I have children we plan to register them in my maiden name (and his name). It never occurred to me that I would need to change my name back by deed poll to allow me to do this - is that really right?

shoe*diva79

I didnt need to change it back by deed poll. Just need to show my decree absolute as proof.

Mojisola

fluffnutter wrote: »

But your name was 'X' at the time of your daughter's birth. It wasn't 'Y' so how can it be changed to something it wasn't?

It is trying to rewrite history but it sounds as if there's a lot of emotion tied up with the different names for shoe*diva. It's unlikely to worry her daughter what her Mum's name was at the time of her birth.

As a family historian, I'd rather people didn't try to change the past. Our ancestors have already found enough ways to hide themselves without us inventing new ones.