Informal's name

I published the following article in Informal's Newsletter (i, 3), last election:

  Recently, The Mercury---twice in two days, in fact---published a misspelled version of my former name. I'm not so sure that the readers of The Mercury need constant reminding that I was not issued my present name at birth---particularly since The Mercury never mentions the former name of an endorsed Liberal candidate for Lyons, who includes an aristocratic title in his name---anyway, I quite like my name: a good name, after all, is more precious than ointment.*
  When I changed my name [in 1992], I signed that name, Informal, to a statutory declaration stating that I should, thenceforth use it for all legal purposes and forsake the former name. I believe in faithfulness to promises; and, subsequently, when others advocated that I use my former name for various purposes, I refused. I even decided, as a matter of policy, not to divulge my former name to those who had not known me formerly. My policy was reinforced by the behaviour of some people who would insist on addressing me by my forsaken name as soon as they learned of it, in the belief, apparently, that my former name is my "real" name.
  My late father's name was David Lohrey: his father was yclept Kenneth Lohrey, and his mother was hight Mary Moore, originally, then Mary Lohrey and later, when she divorced and remarried, Mary Clarke. My mother's name was Margaret Igoe when she married my father and changed her name to Margaret Lohrey. She later divorced my father, remarried, and changed her name to Margaret Woods and then to Margaret Rahn. My mother's father was named James Igoe and her mother's name before marriage was Muriel Hadden. My paternal grandparents are dead but my maternal grandparents, I believe, are alive, though I have not seen them these last thirty years. One of my two brothers, Gavin, also changed his surname to Rahn, and that is now the surname of his wife, Lindy. My sister Megan Lohrey and my half-sister Maurita Woods subsequently changed their names withal. My father's three sisters, my aunts May, Pam and Pat all changed their surnames when they married their husbands (respectively, [the late] Eric Beechey, the late Jack Sykes, and Ray Veevers). My aunts May and Pat and my uncle Ray are also my godparents, for I was christened into the Church of England when I was one year of age (though my father was Methodist,  his mother was a Jehovah's Witness, and my mother was Roman Catholic). My mother had brothers and at least one sister, Yvonne, whose present names and whereabouts are unknown to me. I have numerous cousins german and several nephews and nieces. Other relatives abound throughout Tasmania.
  My wife, Ella Knight, who (strange to relate) has never altered her name, is the daughter of Ward Knight and Kay, whose surname, initially, was Williams, then Knight, and now that of her husband, Chris Harman.
  I have, on all sides, a family history of mutable names.

*Ecclesiastes, vii, 1
 The Methodists, I recall, also subsequently changed their denomination's denomination.