Sometimes surnames were created from the father's forename (known as patronymic). 1  Peter has a son called John. John's surname becomes Peterson (Peter's son). 2  Ruairidh has a son called DÃ²mhnall. DÃ²mhnall's surname becomes MacRuairidh, or MacRury (mac Ruairidh).
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. There are a few appropriate responses to the news, broken by US Weekly on Wednesday, that Donald and Melania Trump allegedly sleep in separate bedrooms.
President Truman and his wife, Bess, were forced to move into his mother-in-laws house in Independence, Missouri, after leaving the White House. In response, Congress passed a law in 1958 called the Former Presidents Act, which provided a $25,000 annual pension to those who had served as the nations chief executive.