Eureka!! Just been searching Ancestry for Norman births in Exeter, and found this from the register of Bartholomew Street Baptist Church:
June 26 1837
It is hereby certified that Emma, daughter of John Norman of Saint Thomas, in the County of Devon, basket maker, and Sarah his wife who was daughter of Isaac Warren late of Tiverton, Devon, weaver, deceased, was born on the twenty ninth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and that Frederic son of John and Sarah Norman was born on the sixteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty five, both born in the parish of Saint Thomas.
So those trees were correct after all - the Sarah who married John Norman was definitely the daughter of Isaac Warren. I'll keep looking for anything else which may help prove that Robert was the son of that John and Sarah rather than any other couple with the same names!
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