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I've been wonder what happens if a Bastard gets married. Do they choose a new family name? Would s male take the name of a wife? Would they keep the name Snow/Stone/Rivers etc themselves?

It's a fact that all the folk we have met with bastard surnames ao far in the books are bastard born themselves, not descended from bastards. On this slight evidence alone, I think that there must be some 'naming convention' for offspring of bastards of which we have not yet heard.

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The highborn parent can bestow the usual name, a new one of his/her own devising, or none at all. Most legitimate sons of bastards keep the bastard name, but there are cases where a later generation fiddles with it to remove the taint. There's one such case that you will meet in the next book, a minor character descended from a Waters (a bastard name along the shores of Blackwater Bay) whose great grandfather changed the name to Longwaters for just that reason.

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[summary: Pamela asks what would happen if two bastards of different areas (she uses Snow and Rivers as an example) married: what name would a child take?]

Interesting question.

The child would most likely take the father's surname.

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