Elisabeth Chatten

  General Notes:

This Elizabeth is shown on the 1871 census as daughter of James & Mary Chatten but she is their grandaughter and the daughter of their eldest child Mary Elizabeth Chatten

There are only two Elizabeth Chatt*n born in Plomesgate district shown on birth indexes 1868 -1871

Births Jun qtr 1869 Chatten Elizabeth Leah Plomesgate 4a 639
Births Dec qtr 1871 Chatten Elizabeth Plomesgate 4a 626

And only the first of these would appear on the 1871 census made on 2 April 1871

There is only one Elizabeth Chatt*n found on the 1871 census in Plomesgate district and she is shown as daughter to James & Mary Chatten in Snape on 1871 census

1871 census Snape Terrace
James Chatten age 40 Snape, Suffolk Head Snape, Suffolk , occ labourer
Mary Chatten age 40 Snape, Suffolk wife Snape, Suffolk
Caroline Chatten age 9 Snape, Suffolk daughter Snape, Suffolk
Margrete Chatten age 7 Snape, Suffolk daughter Snape, Suffolk
William Chatten age 5 Snape, Suffolk son Snape, Suffolk
Elisabeth Chatten age 2 Snape, Suffolk daughter Snape, Suffolk
1871 census rg10 1765 19 2

and so this is
births Jun qtr 1869 Chatten Elizabeth Leah Plomesgate 4a 639
and the birth certificate gives her mother as Mary Elizabeth Chatten - no father named

baptism
23 May 1886 Elizabeth Leah mother Mary Elizabeth Chatten Saxmundham born 6 May 1869 Saxmundham, St John the Baptist

There are only two Elizabeth Chatt*n found on the 1881 census in Plomesgate district , one age 11 in Wickham Market , and the other age 9 with parents in Snape.

so this Elizabeth is shown as Elizabeth Chatton age 11 inmate Plomesgate Union Workhouse on the 1881 census and also shown as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Chatten

  Documentary notes:

1. Birth, 6 May 1869, Snape, Suffolk. ----------click picture to the right to view