She gave her children the Shields name, which may have hinted at their paternity or simply been the custom of former slaves taking their master's surnames.

她给孩子起的名字是谢尔兹，这也许暗示着孩子们的父亲的身份，也许只是按照过去农奴制的习惯，以她们主人的姓氏来给孩子们命名。

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Claudia Altman-Siegel, the first non-Spanish child in Massachusetts to be given a hyphenated combination of her mother's and father's surnames, phoned me from San Francisco.

FORBES: A Married Name Without The Hyphen