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The modern English custom of women automatically adopting their husband’s name on marriage spread into Scotland by the nineteenth century, and was used (or imposed) almost universally in the census returns, but in many other records you’ll find the older custom of women keeping their maiden name. Thus, Robbie Burns’ wife was known as Jean Armour, not Jean Burns. Even when women adopted their husband’s surname, they often reverted to their maiden names if widowed.