Why does my controller divert to a different view?

I have two views, one called 'manualRegistration', the other called 'newManualRegistration.

I enter a date into the first one. JS grabs it passes onto Axios. Axios calls the controller below:

 public function getRegistration(Request $request){

        $registeredChildren  = DB::table('attendance')
            ->join('child', 'child.child_id', '=', 'attendance.child_id')
            ->select('child.child_id','child.childFirstName', 'child.childLastName','timeIn','timeOut','date')
            ->whereDate('date', $request->date)
            ->orderBy('child.childFirstName')
            ->get();

           return view('newManualRegistration',compact('registeredChildren'));
    }

For some reason Laravel ignores the required view, 'newManualRegistration', and sends the app back to the original view, 'manualRegistration' view.

I have tried using a redirect like this: return redirect('newManualRegistration', compact('registeredChildren')); but that did not help.

So - how can I get my app to go to the correct view?