Some more on the Elizabeth Problem...

Some new facts have emerged. The Elizabeth Chittock, illigitimate daughter of Elizabeth Chittock baptised at St. George Colegate on the 28th of September 1804 appears to have been buried a month later at St Martin at Oak's parish, both in Norwich. Here, she was registered as a Chiddock. The entry reads that the child was an infant and illigitimate.

Secondly, the Elizabeth Chittock, born to Ann Chittock, who married Robert Waller a year or two after giving birth appears to be the one who marries John Shreeve in 1819. Waller was from St. Michael At Thorn parish and this is where we find the Shreeves set up shop, as it were. Shreeve was a weaver, to begin with. But here's the curious thing. According to the Bishop's Transcripts, which is all you can now see of the wartime destroyed registers, when a daughter called Edis is baptised in the parish on the 14th of January 1823, Elizabeth gives her maiden name as Waller. So when a second Edis is baptised on the 11th of September 1826, her maiden name is Chittock... Now, unless there are two Elizabeths married to a John Shreeve and both decided to name a daughter Edis, it seems that this is the same family. She gave her maiden name in the first instance as that of her step father. Assuming, Robert Waller was her step father and not someone doing 'the right thing...' By the same baptism, she gave her real maiden name. The one which she got married in.

So with Nortons and Spaldings witnessing that wedding, could the Elizabeth Chiddock witnessing be Samuel's mother?

Thanks to a nice member on the Rootschat.com forum, the census shows that the family stayed within that parish with John becmonig a carpenter, and Elizabeth was born at the top of the century, and there is an Edis too, at the right age. Elizabeth's place of birth is put down as Thorn, Norwich. Not Heckingham, where at least she was baptised, if not born. And for two censuses, Samuel Chittock stated he was Norwich born and bred.

Perhaps they were and whisked off to Loddon!

So, this leaves one more Elizabeth Chiddock wedding. The 1820 Fenton wedding at St. Helens. One month or so after Samuel's. Is this his mother finally getting it hitched?