Middle name is a previous married surname?

[clogdancer]

I think I'm right in saying that a female might have used her maiden name as her middle name.
I've certainly found a few examples of that in my family in Mayo in the mid 1800's.
But might she retain her previous married name as a middle name in the same way?
And would this practice indicate that there was another person of similar age in the vicinity, otherwise with the same name?

[Maggsie]

Hi, That's a good one!
She may well have kept her other married name.

Depending on the year, you could go back in records to find the info.
Mid 1800's depends on how Mid.
If you say what year then I would tell you if you could look back any records.
I have found that an extra surname is either the mothers maiden name or the fathers mothers name.
As I say just depends on the year of the marriage.
Maggsie

[KGarrad]

Is this from an actual image of the record?
Or from a transcription?

Could be that, on the record, she is Ann Smith formerly Brown.
But transcribed as Ann Brown Smith, and indexed solely under Smith.

[clogdancer]

Heres 2 records for Ann Loftus Maughan and a Maughan Loftus.
I'm looking for my Gr Gr Grandfather Anthony.
I pretty sure I have a DNA match with an Ann Loftus

[Sinann]

Doubt she is using the name Loftus, this is just how FamilySearch is recording her maiden name, a look at the images of the certs on Irish Genealogy would be clearer but I'm getting an internal service error message at the moment.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

[Sinann]

Irish Genealogy is still not working so I found an example from one of my collection.
You can see how the mother is recorded as Donnelly Kimmage but the Donnelly is just her formerly surname on the cert.
Lord knows where they got Hong Kong from

[KGarrad]

At this point I have to say that that would be normal for an Isle of Man birth!
Mother's maiden name is nearly always included on a baptism.

[Sinann]

They are not baptisms, they are birth certs.

[hallmark]

Birth Registrations.