Susan A. Kitchens

@donnadechen Yes. Generation Jones grew up with our mothers being identified as Mrs George Smith but we ourselves have used our own names. Hm, wonder if this is related to the ceasing of the tradition where newspapers identified people and listed their street address in local newspaper stories (ie, “Mrs [name] Smith of 123 Anystreet”).

@PatriciaColley thank you!

@jinogo @Sheril The naming pattern of addressing the wide as Mrs. John Doe is a toughie. I have done some dives into scanned historic newspapers and it was common into the 1960s. Now gonna throw this question to followers of the #histodon #Histodons hashtags: when did the naming convention start to shift from Mrs. John Doe to Mrs Sally Doe?