There are procedures for correcting
errors, but it's rare to come across a certificate which incorporates such
changes - this is from a newsletter from LOST COUSINS
Was the bride unaware of her true origins? This seems
unlikely, as on the 1911 Census there's an Emily Croucher
aged 17 living with her parents William and Emily, but working as a domestic
servant. Could she have been employed by a family called Novelle,
I wonder?
Note:
in the 1891 Census her father is recorded as John W Croucher.
His occupation is General Labourer in both years.
Why did she choose to marry under a
different name? Was she trying to conceal the marriage from her parents? In
1911 2 Apple Market, the address she gave, was a confectionery shop, occupied
by the proprietor and an assistant - so it seems likely she had left home and
was making a new start.
However there are many unanswered questions.
What prompted the decision to set matters right in 1928? And who was Edmund
James Kirke, the co-signatory of the Statutory
Declaration?
Where did the Novelle
surname come from? It is quite a rare surname, mostly found as Novell, although
I noticed that many of the occurrences on the 1901 Census are in Surrey or
Sussex. If the surname had been invented by the bride herself, what was she
trying to hide? And is it a coincidence that it was in 1914 that the composer
Ivor Novello became famous with the publication of Keep
the Home Fires Burning? (By the way - it wasn't his real name, either.)
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