Does anyone have evolving surnames?

[Andrew Tarr]

I have just come across that tonight when researching my husbands ancestors. I had an Isabella Carruthers, her marriage cert listed her dad as James Crothers but her birth certificate has him as James Struthers!

I have recently come across a few Carrodus, which I guess is another variant?

[Skoosh]

Ubiquitous in Shetland where once you're back into the 18th century Laurence Jamieson's father becomes James Williamson, the son of William Robertson etc' in the Norse style.

Skoosh.

[Maiden Stone]

McLean who went to live in Lancashire mid 19thC has been transcribed as Lean. It was written variously by other people as Mack Lean, Maccleane, McLane. Macklin. He used one spelling consistently; it was others who altered it.
Croocoe, Crookaw, (from 16thC), Crookal, Crookall, Crookhall (no Lancastrian would pronounce h so that was not what they would have called themselves, unless one adopted it to make himself sound posher), Crookell, Krokel, Crookhorn ( imagining a shepherd's crook?). I have 4 wills from 18thC & 3 from 19th; the name was Crookall in each. Most of the testators were literate; one wrote his own will.
Southworth/Southart.