Amended marriage registration?

The marriages index for the June quarter of 1913 shows what is
presumably an amended registration for a Daisy Slingsby. I wasn't
aware that such an amendment was possible.

John E Wynn...

I don't think it's an amended entry - just an entry that was somehow
missed when the indexes were compiled. If it was meant to be a
birth entry they have also missed the mothers maiden name (which was
introduced prior to 1913)

Although rare I have several marriage certificates that required
amendment and re-registration, the most interesting being one where
the bride originally claimed to be 32 years old but was later found to
be 46 years old.

John Wynn

The details of the handwritten entry are:
Slingsby
Daisy
Chesterfield
7B
1350A

My gut feeling is that this is really an amended birth registration
that's been entered into the marriages index in error; circumstantial
evidence is that there's no spouse's surname given.

Has anyone ever come across something like this before?

Charani...

It could be that there was an error in the original marriage entry
which needed corrected, hence the amended entry. I've seen additional
entries made to the index, but I can't recollect an amendment in any
of the many marraige volumes I've searched over the years.

CWatters...

I've had a look at the image at FreeBMD and it does look like an additional
entry rather than a correction. It's hand written at the end of the page and
they put an X showing where it should have been inserted. There happens to
be an Edward J Slingsby marriage at that point but I don't think it's
intended to be a correction to Edwards entry as the district, volume and
page for Edward is different.

Not sure what to make of the missing spouse.

Charani...

That makes more sense.

Or it could be as you suspect. Worth a query to the GRO perhaps, esp
if Daisy is one of yours?

Geoff...

Dozens of times when I searched hundreds of microfiches in the local
public library.

Dave Mayall...

I wouldn't be so quick to assume that this is an amended entry.

"a" page numbers in marriages are far more usually encountered when a vicar
was late sending his returns to the GRO and they were inserted into the
bundle after the pages had been numbered.