Daily Ancestornoverca
Noverca is Latin for stepmother, the father's later wife.
Noverca means stepmother, the wife a father married after the death of the child's mother. It appears in burial entries and in records naming a child's guardians.
A noverca standing as sponsor or witness is a clue to the father's second marriage. Search the marriage records for it.
As seen in a recordNote in a Latin burial entry
praesente noverca Elisabetha
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