I've been looking at your Mitchell line and I see that you have Sarah Mitchell married to Robert Mitchell.
I think that Martha Mitchell was the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Mitchell and that Sarah was not married to Robert but was his daughter.
Baptism for Martha Mitchell:
County Norfolk
Place Great Massingham
Church Saint Mary
RegisterNumber 549
DateOfBirth
BaptismDate 17 Jun 1832
Forename Martha
Sex F
FatherForename
MotherForename Sarah
FatherSurname
MotherSurname MITCHELL
Abode
FatherOccupation
Notes Illegitimate
FileNumber 1110
The 1871 census records Sarah as follows: Sarah Mitchell
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1871
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Relationship to Head of Household: Mother
Birthplace:
Middleton, NorfolkSchedule Type: Household
Registration District: Yarmouth
Sub-District: Southern
Parish: Great Yarmouth
County: Norfolk
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Self Martha Balls F 37
Massingham, NorfolkMother Sarah Mitchell F 60 Middleton, NorfolkSon Arthur Balls M 11 Dartford, Kent
Servant Emily Cocks F 21 Thomson, Norfolk
This looks like Sarah's baptism (in the
Middleton parish register) at the bottom of the left hand page and records her parents as
Alice and Roberthttps://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11600-97166-57?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-78K:n1248099149I suspect that Martha named her father as Robert Mitchell (using her grandfather's name) on her marriage certificate.
I wonder if the Mitchells moved to Massingham after Sarah was born as there is this baptism in 1816 in Massingham:
County Norfolk
Place Great Massingham
Church Saint Mary
RegisterNumber 103
DateOfBirth
BaptismDate 13 Oct 1816
Forename John
Sex M
FatherForename Robt.
MotherForename Alice
FatherSurname MITCHELL
MotherSurname GORDON
Abode
FatherOccupation Shepherd
Notes Parents Surnames Given As MITCHELL Late SHORE
FileNumber 1110
and these baptisms on freereg in Middleton:
County Norfolk
Place Middleton
Church St Mary
RegisterNumber
DateOfBirth
BaptismDate 02 Apr 1807
Forename William
Sex M
FatherForename Robert
MotherForename Alice
FatherSurname MITCHELL
MotherSurname JORDAN
Abode
FatherOccupation
Notes
FileNumber 3973
Search Record Details
County Norfolk
Place Middleton
Church St Mary
RegisterNumber
DateOfBirth
BaptismDate 09 May 1809
Forename John
Sex M
FatherForename Robert
MotherForename Alice
FatherSurname MITCHELL
MotherSurname JORDAN
Abode
FatherOccupation
Notes
FileNumber 3973
and these burials:
County Norfolk
Place Great Massingham
Church Saint Mary
RegisterNumber 456
BurialDate 10 Aug 1848
Forename
AliceRelationship
Rel1MaleForename
Rel1FemaleForename
Rel1Surname
Surname
MITCHELLAge 74Abode Massingham
Notes
FileNumber 1115
County Norfolk
Place Great Massingham
Church Saint Mary
RegisterNumber 533
BurialDate 24 Feb 1854
Forename
RobertRelationship
Rel1MaleForename
Rel1FemaleForename
Rel1Surname
Surname
MITCHELLAge 77Abode Massingham
Notes
FileNumber 1115