Name on your title page appears as: J.D. Sullivan
In your in-house files, you have the name as James David Sullivan, and find that his birth and death dates are 1885-1957.
You would form the heading and cross reference as follows:
100 10 Sullivan, J. D. $q (James David), $d 1885-1957
400 10 Sullivan, James David, $d 1885-1957
Name on your title page appears as: Mrs. Mallory
You find an RLIN or OCLC record that has the usage of Mrs. Mallory (in 245), but has the heading of: Mallory, Edith Ann, 1828-1907
You would form the heading and cross reference as follows:
100 10 Mallory, $c Mrs. $q (Edith Ann), $d 1828-1907
400 10 Mallory, Edith Ann, $d 1828-1907
Name on your title page appears as: Louise Jones Henderson
You find elsewhere in the book that her maiden name was Louise Jones. Whether you make a reference from the maiden name or not depends on usage; AACR2 chapter 26 instructs that headings and references should be based on usage in the author's works or in reference works.
You would form the heading and cross reference (depending on usage) as follows:
100 10 Henderson, Louise Jones
400 10 Jones, Louise
Name on your title page appears as: Hopewell, Susan D.
You find an LC bib record with heading: Hopewell, Susan Delores, $d 1925- The statement of responsibility reads: by Susan D. Hopewell.
You would form the heading and cross reference as follows:
100 10 Hopewell, Susan D. $q (Susan Delores), $d 1925-
400 10 $w nna $a Hopewell, Susan Delores, $d 1925-
Linking references (with $w) are only made, optionally, for "old catalog" LC headings.
Name on your title page appears as: Harrison L. Butler
You find in the Dictionary of American biography that his full name was Harrison Leonard Butler and his dates were 1796-1854.
You find an old LC bib record with the heading: Butler, Harrison L. The statement of responsibility reads: by Harrison L. Butler.
You must use the LC heading when the usage matches the AACR2 form of the name, as in this case.
You would form the heading as follows:
100 10 Butler, Harrison L.
A reference is not appropriate since the primary elements of the reference would be the same as the heading.
Name on your title page appears as: Juan Francisco de Valdez Arispo
You would form the heading and cross references as follows:
100 20 Valdez Arispo, Juan Francisco de
400 10 Arispo, Juan Francisco de Valdez
400 20 De Valdez Arispo, Juan Francisco
Name on your title page appears as: Judith A. Vaughan-Sterling
You would form the heading and reference as follows:
100 20 Vaughan-Sterling, Judith A.
400 10 Sterling, Judith A. Vaughan-
(examples from Amy McColl, NACO coordinator for PACSCL - 1993)