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Do you know what that specific annotation would've referred to? I know there were different annotations with separate colours and codes like the one in my picture to reference a specific event. I haven't been able to find out what the annotation in my record would be a reference to.

There is a date inside the column of a relative I am looking into, written in a turquoise colour, with FPIALND written under the date. I'm wondering if anyone knows what that would mean? I assume it was added on years after the 1939 register, the initials of her two middle names were also added onto the record in the same turquoise colour.

Does Jane have any other children@ if so, do they change their names as well?

Her only other living child is my great grandfather, William Dye and he never changed his name throughout his life. He was estranged from them and told my family he was 'orphaned' when he wasn't so he had little to no contact with his mother or sister throughout his teenage and adult life.

I'm wondering if anybody might know why someone might change their name on an electoral register while maintaining their real birth name on other records such as census records and marriage records? My 2x great grandmother Jane Dyer, whose real surname changed from Dye to Dyer after 1911, listed her name as the exact same name as her daughter whose name was Mary Elizabeth Dyer, on the London electoral registers of the 1910s up until the 1930s when she disappears from records. Some years there would be Sr. and Jr listed beside her and her daughters name, while on other years her daughter would switch back and forth from the name 'Polly.' I'm curious as to why they might've made these name changes only on the Electoral Register despite them both using their real names on the 1921 Census, and on Mary's marriage certificate?

Possibly a cover up for an illegal abortion. You do not say how many children she had given birth to or how long it was after she last gave birth.

She had 7 children, two of whom who died in childhood. The last child she had was born in 1860 7 years before she died.

The Illegal abortion theory was actually one of the first things that came to my mind just because of the vague description of her cause of death, because of the fact that she died at an address who I believe she had no familial relations living at, wasn't her home, wasn't a hospital or maternity home, and because of the mysterious informant who (according to census records) was not a midwife at all but instead a charwoman or a house cleaner of some type.

I'm only hesitant to accept this theory because she was a married woman who had been married for many years, and from what I know abortions in this era were mostly sought out by unmarried women with a lack of means or support.