Elizabeth Chittock 1769- ?

Until the entry for Samuel's birth can be located and SEEN, it is still just conjecture that his mother Elizabeth is the daughter of Robert Chittock and Ann Lacy from St. John Timberhill in Norwich. She could be one of the others mentioned below...

But consider the lillies...

The Norwich Elizabeth Chittock had three children baptised in Norwich so far known: Robert Chittock, baptised 23rd of June at St Edmunds parish, buried fifth of December 1803 at St. John Timberhill which seems to suggest the connection. The other two children were baptised at St. George Colegate, Elizabeth on the 28th of September 1804 and Ann Martha on the 19th of July 1807.

Was the young Elizabeth married to William Fenton at St Helens only a few months after Sameul Chittock (as Chiddock) and Rachel Watts?

If our Sam was the first of her four children, who was the father of them all? The same man? Common law relationship? She seemed to have settled in St George Colegate. This is where a mysterious Jane Chittock lived when she wrote her will proved in 1800. She was apparently 44 when she died and left everything to her friend and servant Sarah Waller.

So, not much to go on. Perhaps a look at the rates books for the parish in this time of the nineteenth century for Elizabeth, assuming she was a head of a household. Since she had more than one illigitimate child, she was obviously not keen on marriage. A conventional iconoclast!

We have speculated as to whether she was spirited away to Loddon or that area when she fell pregnant in 1798. We have also speculated below whether she is related to Ann Chittock whose illigitimate daughter is called Elizabeth, of 1802

One of the witnesses to Rachel Margaret Chittock's wedding in 1841 was Eleanor Wilson, who was a Trowse. She was illigitimate. Her mother, Martha Trowse, was Rachel's mother's aunt.