Talk:Betty Thatcher

Latest comment: 8 years ago by RGCorris in topic surnames

surnames edit

In 1972, she married at the Kensington and Chelsea registry office and became Betty Brown. She divorced in 1976, and changed her name back to Newsinger in the early 1980s . . . .

But when and how did she become Thatcher? (I thought a vandal might have replaced "Thatcher" with "Brown" here, but it's "Brown" in the earliest version of this passage.) —Tamfang (talk) 05:23, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

I suspect that the Ellen E Newsinger who married William H Thatcher in Hammersmith in early 1949 was Betty's mother, and that William Thatcher became her stepfather and she took his name - until, apparently, she changed it back to Newsinger in the 1980s due to disliking the association with the then-Prime Minister. RGCorris (talk) 14:48, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply