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?
