Is Cavendish a nice surname?

[FormerlyPathologicallyHappy]

Or a bad one?

Love it op

Another interesting Cavendish fact: your everyday commonest banana is called a Cavendish, because it was crossbred in the glasshouse at Chatsworth.
IMO nice surname to choose.

She is widowed. Presumably quite young if the PIL were still around. Leave it.

Why pick on this aspect when her dh is deceased?
OP made her own decision at the time and is considering making another decision in the future.
you may not agree with her reasons or her decision, but that's entirely irrelevant to the OP.
Theres no reason at all she has to revert to her original surname. She's not asking your permission 🙄

I associate the name with poshness, same surname as the Dukes of Devonshire.

I do like bananas & I once read the Mitford girls biography so the tenuous links are really stacking up now.

I always found it odd the Duke of Devonshires family live in Derbyshire but the Earl of Derby ancestral home is near Liverpool because it’s the Liverpool Derby not the Derbyshire Derby.

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Cavendish is lovely but Carrington is even lovelier IMHO and you only have yourself (and DCat) to please now so...?

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Carrington because then you will remind people of the two artists, Dora C and Leonora C. This is why it would be my choice if I was changing my name and could choose between Cavendish and Carrington.

Dora Carrington - Wikipedia

Leonora Carrington - Wikipedia

I’ve changed it on Insta now. Cavendish it is.

I owe it to the cat.

Why not go the full hog and go for Windsor.

Puddy Windsor 🤔, no we’re back to fictional village in Midsomer Murders territory there.

Also we never visited Windsor Castle but we did Chatsworth, Hardwick Hall and Old Hardwick Hall.

I guess it depends on your age. It makes me think of Cavendish education because DD is in one of their schools lol

I know someone called Wilde. She grew up in a commune (in Wales maybe..) and lots of the kids were given Wilde as a surname rather than their parents’ names. She quite liked it.

The Op is having fun choosing a new name

You sound like you could do with a bit more fun Lady Kathleen

Us MN aristos should stick together

👑💪Vicountess @FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Cavendish

Well it sounds like you've made a decision, so long as the cat's happy.....

The name's Cat, Cat Cavendish 😻

After Barbara.

Cavendish is satisfying to say but not sure I could carry off the poshness.

I do prefer Wilde or Fox. Or Kinsella - another satisfying name to say.

After Barbara.

Or Frank. Or House Of.

I think it’s a lovely name.

I like it. But in for a penny, in for a pound, why not go double barrelled, Farquhar Cavendish. 🤪

The Duke of Devonshire should really be the Duke of Derbyshire but the King got it wrong.

Really? That sounds fascinating. How did it happen?

Like others I just immediately think of the Devonshire family ( Chatsworth etc) so lovely name . Met the Duke last summer as he took some guests round the garden on a golf cart , real character and total gentleman!

Very posh. I once worked with a Juliette Cavendish and she was from landed gentry!

Cavendish is quite a posh village in West Suffolk and is where Lady Sue Ryder, of charity shops fame, lived. Her husband was a Sir. I like the name very much and it is much nicer than either my maiden name or my married name (sorry, DH).

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