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- There are three more baptisms at Beaulieu of illegitimate children of a Mary Bull, though the dates mean we cannot be sure it's the same woman. They are: Ann Maria on 21 Apr 1776, Thomas on 20 May 1777, Betty on 22 Jul 1781. If the mother is the same, it leaves a big gap between Betty and Jacob (unless Isaac fits in the gap), but it is not an impossibly large gap. If Mary were 20 when Ann Maria were born, she'd have been 39 when Jacob was born.
There are two Mary Bulls in the baptism registers in the area near Beaulieu of a suitable age to be the mother of Isaac and Jacob. One was baptised on 22 Aug 1756 at Boldre, daughter of Charles; the other on 27 Nov 1778 at Beaulieu, daughter of Richard and Anne. Richard's daughter Mary couldn't have been the mother of the earliest three illegitimate children, so it seems likely that the mother of Ann Maria, Thomas and Betty was Charles's daughter Mary. Charles's daughter Mary seems to be the Mary Bull who married Henry Thomas on 21 Jul 1785. When that Mary (now surnamed Thomas) was buried on 12 Dec 1831, her age was given as 75, which matches the 1785 baptism, suggesting this is right.
If so, this tells us that Jacob and Isaac's mother was not the daughter of Charles, and therefore we should give serious consideration to whether she could be the daughter of Richard and Anne. There seems to be no burial that would suggest Richard and Anne's daughter Mary died as a child. Assuming she was baptised as a baby, she would have been 16½ when Jacob and Isaac were conceived, assuming they were twins. Young, but not implausibly so.
Perhaps this is the Mary Bull who married Thomas Hewitt, a widower, in Boldre on 23 Oct 1797. Probably this is the Thomas Hewitt who had three children with another Mary in 1776-89 in Beaulieu, and that Mary is quite likely the woman who was buried 18 Jan 1797 at Beaulieu aged 47. The dates fit with Mary Bull needing a husband to provide for her young son Jacob, and Thomas Hewitt needing a wife to care for his children. But if Jacob's mother did marry Thomas Hewitt, they seem to vanish shortly after.
There is a burial of a Mary Hewitt on 30 Dec 1834 in Boldre, aged 77. If this is Thomas Hewitt's wife, Mary née Bull, then it puts her birth in 1757, which is exactly the right age to be Charles's daughter, not Richard and Anne's. But if that's the case, we're left with no-one who could be Henry Thomas's wife.
A more likely possibility is that the Mary who died in 1834 is the Mary Pocock who married William Hewitt on 26 Dec 1783 in Lymington. William and Mary seem to have had children up to 1803 so Mary Pocock cannot be any of the other Mary Hewitts buried in the area. William was also buried in Boldre (on 23 Mar 1845, aged 97), so we know William and Mary remained in the area, whereas there is no suitable burial for Thomas Hewitt in the area. This suggests we can conclude Thomas and Mary left the Boldre area. That means there's no difficulty having Charles's daughter marrying Henry Thomas.
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Richard’s Genealogy
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