20 years of searching, one minute of success and now another brick wall!
 

So, I think I many have just found a marriage for one of the siblings of my 2xg-grandfather, George Clark.

His sister was Elizabeth Clark, baptised 15 Sept 1816 at St Swithin's, Walcot, Bath, Somerset. Her parents were William Clark, chairman, and Charlotte Eliza nee Cook (I don't know when William or Charlotte Eliza died).

The marriage I have found took place at St James, Bath, Somerset on 30 Dec 1837 (image on Ancestry):

Frederick Cheater, full age, bachelor, labourer, 19 Richmond Terrace, father James Cheater, cellar man
Elizabeth Clark, full age, spinster, 19 Richmond Terrace, father William Clark, chairman

Frederick signed, Elizabeth made her mark.
Witnesses: John Alfred Bushell and Hannah Bushell, both signed.

Then they all vanish!

Any ideas....??

(I'm hoping the minute I click submit I will get a breakthrough!! :D)

I can't find them on a census or any children.

There is an online Ancestry tree (very sparse) giving the father's name as James Chater.

I've just found a baptism for a John Frederick Cheater, son of James and Sarah, bap 03 Mar 1816 St Michael's Bath. So maybe I should be trying John!

Cheater John Frederick 1816 Somerset Baptism Index Bath, Somerset, England

Chater Catherine 1818 Somerset Baptism Index Bath, Somerset, England EDIT: transported 1839

Cheater James 1821 Somerset Baptism Index Walcot, Somerset, England. EDIT: Bur 1838

Cheater Edmund 1825 Somerset Baptism Index Walcot, Somerset, England. EDIT: Bur 1826

Cheater Lavinia 1827 Somerset Baptism Index Walcot, Somerset, England. EDIT: Bur 1828

Parents James (EDIT: died 1837) and Sarah (EDIT: died 1866)

Two matches for Elizabeth Cheater on here:

https://www.batharchives.co.uk/bath-ancestors

Sarah Cheater, likely mother of the 1837 groom, is on the 1861 census:

Galloway Buildings, 7, Lilliput Alley, St James, Bath, Somerset

Sarah Cheater head married 70 Pauper servant b Wells, Wiltshire, England

Of course Wells isn't in Wiltshire!

And in 1851 in the Bath Union Workhouse (I should think widow is correct and married, in 1861, incorrect)

Sarah Cheator pauper widow 60 b Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England

Thanks Kate. Just looking in the newspapers for more info.

Hmmmm..

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 16 June 1842

Elizabeth Cheater, aged 23, charged with stealing and pawning a sheet and blanket, the property of Thomas Andrews, at whose house she lodged. Found guilty. Fortnight's hard labour.

My Elizabeth would be 25 or 26, but 23 is probably close enough. Pity it doesn't say if this young woman was married or not.

In Oct 1838 a Catherine Cheater 19, was sentenced to 10 years transportation for stealing a silver watch (her second offence) - Bath Chronicle.

They sound like sisters, but maybe that's wishful thinking!