Are there English surnames created in the orphanage?

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Pep Guardiola

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It's my question.

In South of Europe there are surnames given for nuns to abandoned babies.

In spanish Exposito, Blanco, Iglesias, De Maria...

In catalan Deulofeu, Gracia...

In italian Sposito, Innocenti, Trovati...

This exist in english?
 
Guys, now I'm thinking...

Exposito, Sposito (lost), Trovati (found), Iglesias (Churches), Blanco (white)...


But in catalan Deulofeu (God made him) or Gracia (in catholic religion gracia means 'action that God grants to humans to save them' ).

We catalan people are fucking poets.
 
Oedipus or Moses…

In the U.K., abandonment is extremely rare, so I think the naming is left until the foundling is given parents.
 
Pep Guardiola said:
It's my question.

In South of Europe there are surnames given for nuns to abandoned babies.

In spanish Exposito, Blanco, Iglesias, De Maria...

In catalan Deulofeu, Gracia...

In italian Sposito, Innocenti, Trovati...

This exist in english?
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In the past yes, but not really now.

Abandoned babies used to be named after the street or town where they were found.
 
Pep Guardiola said:
Guys, now I'm thinking...

Exposito, Sposito (lost), Trovati (found), Iglesias (Churches), Blanco (white)...


But in catalan Deulofeu (God made him) or Gracia (in catholic religion gracia means 'action that God grants to humans to save them' ).

We catalan people are fucking poets.
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Guys ? We're not Mumsnet.
 
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My Gran's Grandfathers surname was Porter - story was that he was a foundling left in a doorway and therefore named Porter (from the french for gate).

I believe that sometimes Church or Kirk (scots) was used for those left in a church doorway.

But we don't seem to have the same tradition of making it obvious as others do.
 
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