Need help regarding UK visitor visa

[Bmo]

Hello,
I'm in a bit of a dilemma. So I applied for visit Visa in October and I was granted. I was able to visit the UK twice with my six month visa. I did not over stay my Visa.
The problem now is I applied as a single person whereas I was married in July. My husband is based on the UK. He has got a settled status but he's non EU. I did this because I was scared of a third refusal. My previous refusals occured a couple of years ago.
Yes, I have seen a lawyer who has advised me to apply for another short term visa, this time as a married woman with the intention of coming to visit my husband. We wanted to go for a spouse visa but the lawyer advised against it stating that I can apply for a spouse visa six months after this short term visa..if I'm granted.
Will the entry clearance officer refer to my previous applications in order to make a decision non this fresh one I'm about to make. Let me mention that I applied with the passport that bore my maiden surname. I have since changed my passport to my husband's surname. This is now my current passport.
I will have to declare that I have been to the UK in the past ten years. I also ignorantly applied for an EU family permit recently but was refused on the grounds that I was ineligible to apply because my husband is non EU. So, that's my dilemma. Any hope I would be granted in the light of all this? Sorry for the long write up and thank you in anticipation for your response

[secret.simon]

Please do not post your queries in other people's threads. Please keep to this thread for your queries regarding visit visas.

[secret.simon]

So I applied for visit Visa in October and I was granted. I was able to visit the UK twice with my six month visa. I did not over stay my Visa.

October 2019 or some other year?

the lawyer advised against it stating that I can apply for a spouse visa six months after this short term visa

Not sure what your lawyer is trying to achieve, but you can't switch to a spouse visa after entering the UK on a visit visa, if that is his/your plan. You will need to leave the UK and apply for the spouse visa from outside the UK.

Will the entry clearance officer refer to my previous applications in order to make a decision non this fresh one I'm about to make.

The ECO will certainly have a look at all your former applications. So keep all the information in them consistent.

I also ignorantly applied for an EU family permit recently but was refused on the grounds that I was ineligible to apply because my husband is non EU.

The fact that you applied for a Family Permit would suggest to the ECO that you have stronger links to the UK than to your country of habitual residence and is more likely to lead to a refusal.

In your case, I would suggest that it would be more straightforward to apply for a spouse visa directly if your husband meets the financial and other requirements.