Margaret Beauchamp - Married Walter Buchanan or a Mis-merge

Hmm - I see it was added back by a user. I'll remove and lock naming fields. Many thanks Debbie.

Private User says about Margaret

This lady's surname was not Buchanan. Can I suggest that this is misleading and that you consider removing it from her profile.

Perhaps we can start a Discussion and find articles for the typical historical precedents about Scots women's married names for the time ?
Then we can decide to follow this as a rough template, and we'll have a broad time period to work within as well.

6.Scots women kept their own name after marriage

"It was always the custom in Scotland – and still so in legal terms today – that a woman does not lose her family name as in England, but continued to be known after marriage by her own name,” he said.Feb 12, 2021

Six rules of love from Scotland through time | The Scotsman

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/six-rules-love...

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I have never seen as reference, such as Will, that references a Scots woman in any other way than her birth surname. And still applies now, as this article claims.

I seem to be seeing the same thing Erica. I wonder at what period of time this stopped - as I know no Scotswoman today who hasn't changed her name.

Will remove Margaret's Married Name.

Based on the article, I would suspect that “legally” contemporary Scots women still use original surnames, and the married names you see are colloquial usage. But luckily, they, or family, can clarify for themselves. I don’t think it’s a question for before year 1600 women, they are father’s surname.

Yup.