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Still no luck with Sophia, but I've been delving further into the Rolfes. I haven't found the 1851 census record yet, and Robert died in Windsor in the second quarter of 1857, but I have found James and Ann. James's birth was recorded in the first quarter of 1841 in Windsor-James Robert Rolfe. In 1861 he is on a census in Clewer with Ann. They are living in the household of James and Sarah Godliman, aged 44 and 42, andtheir children. Confusingly their relationship to James the head of the household is described as daughter and grandson! I haven't found any relationship between Ann and the Godlimans.
Ann died in Windsor in 1870 and in 1871 James was living as a lodger in the household of the widowed Sophia Morton! Another link.
I do wonder whether James was Sophia's son rather than Ann's. Her dob on her death record was 1786, making her 55 when James was born.

Hello again, I wondered whether Ann White was the maiden name of John Dale's mother. Information from the muster books of H M Brig Martial in 1823 give his birth as about 1796 in Middlesex, England. There are a number of possible candidates, but I haven't been able to find any definite baptismal record for him, so I don't know the names of his parents. They seem to have used names from Mary's family, so perhaps some of the other names come from John's. They seemed to like the name Ann, their youngest daughter born 24 years after Ann White was called Anne Maria!

You should never give up!
I posted this enquiry seven years ago and I think that I've just found Clara Elizabeth. A combination of a random Ancestry hint and FreeBMD led me to her. Her life wasn't straightforward!
In 1871 and 1881 she was living with the wonderfully named Horace Bolingbroke Reeve, a piano tuner, as his wife, in Norwich . I can't find a record of their marriage and it's likely that Horace's first wife didn't die until 1878.
In 1891 they are in Leyton in Essex, Horace is a musician and Clara is a machinist. In 1892 they had a son, William Horace, baptised Willie Horace. By this time Clara was 50. I can't find a record of any other children.  Clara's birthplace of Bawburgh(misspelled but clear) in 1871 and 1891,makes it fairly certain it's her.
In 1894 Horace died and in 1896 Clara married Henry Hubbard, a widower with 3 children, in Stratford Essex. The marriage record in the Essex C of E marriage records give her name as Clara Elizabeth Reeve and her father's name as John Tann.
In 1911 the census places Clara and William in a household in Hackney with Henry, a "scavenger"(?) with the Borough Council, and his eldest, unmarried daughter and her 2 children. Again her birthplace is recorded as Bawburgh.
Henry died in 1912 in Poplar, and Clara in 1916, in Hackney. Her age is given as 67, whereas she was 74 but, again, I'm fairly certain it's her.

All comments, positive or negative, gratefully received!

I hadn't thought of Lydia joining a non-conformist church, I imagined something far more sinful(!)but that's possibly what happened. There was a Baptist and a Congregational church in Yarmouth at the time, or possibly she joined the Quakers as you suggested, Bristolian.
Whichever chuch it was either she, or her daughter Deborah,obviously changed her mind when it came to Anne's baptism.
I've checked Ancestry, Freereg and Family Search, but I can find no further reference to either Anne or Deborah.
Lydia's husband Christopher left a will, the NRO have the probate records, but I don't have any details. Presumably Lydia was sufficiently provided for so she could have supported Deborah and Anne.
Interestingly, Christopher seems to have been fairly litiginous. There are references to his being a plaintiff in a case concerning property in Oby, where he was rector, in 1654 and to another case with his brother John, where they were plaintiffs in a case, again concerning property, this time in Norwich. These are listed in the National Archives catalogue, but again, I don't have any details.

I've just found an interesting record from 1687 for St Nicholas church, Great Yarmouth concerning my 8x gread grandmother, born Lydia Toftes- It  was in the parish register for the baptism of Anne, daughter of Deborah Spendlove 18th December 1687-
"Anne, ye bastard daughter of Deborah, daughter of Lydia Spendlove, widdow. Mother is daughter of Lydia Spendlove a widdow. Who by the dishonour of her husband's memory,sometime curate of this parish, left the community of ye church of England,led her daughter thither and by a tricke put the bastard upon the church she had left."
Despite this, Lydia was buried in St Nicholas in September the following year. The part I've put in italics is in smaller writing in the record, so could have been inserted after the baptism, but the original entry makes it clear Anne was illegitimate so I'm not sure what the trick was or how Anne was "put upon the church". Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't know what became of Anne following her inauspicious start in life.
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