Subject: Not sure that helps
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Posted on: 2015-01-31 08:29:00 UTC

It appears that Powell is actually a fixed surname that came into use in Wales after the patronymic naming system started to disappear, being a shortened form of 'ap Hywel', so essentially the husband's name is Ramsey son of son of Hywel, which is obviously incorrect.
I suppose, however if such a surname were to exist, with the current naming system, someone could take it as there surname, although where the double barreled bit would come in I'm not sure. I can't currently find too much on what happened in the old Welsh system about what happened when women married, but I think the kept their surname of 'ferch "father"', but I'm no sure that helps in this case.

Storme Hawk

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