The Bacon Family and the Chittocks

Maria Chittock marries John Watts Bacon on 10. 07. 1827 at St John Timberhill as witnessed by John Smith and Elizabeth Bacon. If there is a connection to Rachel Watts we can't find it although a Watts did witness a Bacon wedding in Tunstead some time before. John died in 1832 and left a short will which is recorded as John Watts Baron in the various lists at the Norwich Family History Centre... It tells that John Smith is a farmer in Gressenhall whilst Bacon had a brother George William in London, a tailor. The witnesses were A or R Beckwith and Thomas Jessup.

On 22 06 1832 Thomas Bacon from Holt marries Celia Limmer of Norwich at St John Timberhill. The witnesses were John Leech and Mary Ann Chittock. Limmer was the surname of a James Chittock's first wife. This James was the brother of the earlier Robert and lived and bred in the neighbouring parish of St Michael At Thorn where he had a son Samuel in 1810.

Just to bring this into Samuel Chittock's perview, his son Charles George Chittock and his wife Elizabeth Selina Chittock witness the marriage on 20. 03 1864 of James Bacon, 25 (porter, father Robert, a baker) and Ann Elizabeth Bullard, 25, (father Herman? and a foreman) at St Julians church.