Did Sir Edward Elgar have any children?

Answer 1

Yes, he had one daughter with his wife Caroline Alice Elgar. He named his daughter after his wife by combining the first three letters of his wife's first name with the last three letters of her middle name CARICE. Daughter's name was Carice.

Answer 2

There is solid evidence that household cook (and possibly former theater actress) Dora Adeline Nelson was Elgar's mistress for several years straddling the turn of the 20th century and that they had a daughter, given the same name as her mother though known informally as Pearl, in 1907. Sir William Walton always took this as a given, as did Sir Kenneth Clark who during the 1940s saw the girl's passport application showing "Elgar" as her surname. The mother died in 1961; the daughter, as Dora Adeline Nelson Puddefoot, in 1990 at 83.

Answer 3

Elgar had a daughter named Carice Irene ("a contraction of her mother's names Caroline and Alice") who was born on the 14th of August, 1890 at their home in West Kensington.

Answer 4

Carice Elgar Blake did not have any children.

Answer 5

Edward Elgar was one of seven