Rebecca Chatters

Rebecca Chatters 1783-1858

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1783. Rebecca Chatters was baptised to John & Eliza Chatters in Sible Hedingham on 21/3/1783. She was the second of at least 8 children

1803. Rebecca Chatters [c1781 ] married William Wilkinson 1780-1842 on 14/11/1803, in Rayne .D/P 126/1/5 image 23 .

1842. Her husband dies. She presumably continues living in Stebbing with son, Joseph, aged 21, and daughter, Rhoda, 25, and Rhoda's 2 illegitimate children. Rhoda marries late 1844. Joseph does not appear to marry in the Dunmow area.

1846. 15/12/1846 Rebecca Wilkinson, widow, marries William Cowlen, widower, in Gt. Bardfield.

1858 Rebecca Cowland dies, Mar 1858. Buried, aged 75, 21/1/1858 in Gt. Bardfield. D/P 67/1/26 image 51. Her age suggests a birth ~ 1783

Thanks to Brian Chatters for the information below. Some of it now updated with further finds.

March 2011: A Brian Chatters contacted me with the suggestion that Rebecca Chatters might have been born & married William Wilkinson in Rayne[ to east of Stebbing] 1800-1804. D/P 126/1/4 Rayne marriages 1751-1834. [ Gt. Saling, Bardfield Saling & Felsted - , none of these last 3 with baptisms online - Felsted Burials online , no Chatters 1781-1785 , all around here] . 2011 this was found by me, William Wilkinson m.Rebecca Chatters 14/11/1803, so Brian can maybe provide me with more info. on her family: a John Chatters 1756 m. Eliz. Ward, c.1752, in G. Saling 31/1/1781, he signed, she mark. Sarah Ward was a witness, from D/P 311/1/2 Great Saling marriages 1754-1812 . Banns were read on Dec31 1780, & Jan 7 & 14 1781, both of this parish. I found no Chatters baptisms in Great Saling 1781-1799, D/P 311/1/1. . John & Elizabeth Chatters had Elizabeth 1781, Rebecca 1783 in Sible Hedingham, then in Rayne, D/P 126/1/4, Sarah 20/3/1785, Jane 17/12/1786, John 15/1/1789, Francis 1791, Rachel 1793, Amelia 20/7/1795. I also found that in 1792, Elizabeth Chatters, an infant/10years!, was buried 11/1/1792 and that in 1802, Sarah Chatters aged 17 years was buried 3/12/1802, both in Rayne.

I've found the missing baptism record for Rebecca Chatters, quite by chance! I rechecked FamilySearch to see what was new and there was a reference to an Eliza Chatters born in Sible Hedingham. I checked out the baptism records for Sible Hedingham on Seax::

Brian is descended from the third son of Henry Chatters c1694? of Belchamp Otten, Francis who was born 15th April 1723. I can let you have more details if you wish but it is probably not relevant to your research. so, our common ancestor seems to be Henry 1660 - Chris' 8x ggrandfather. All details on Earlier Chatters.

Toppesfield ~9 miles to the north of Great Saling. Sible Hedingham ~ 4 miles to the north of Gosfield, ~3 miles to the SE of Toppesfield.