Michael Phillips of Beaulieu, aged 25, married Elizabeth Tinsley of Fawley, aged 20, on 9th February 1790 at Beaulieu church. Together they had nine children over the course of 21 years.

The couple were evidently quite well off; the Rev. Comyn's notebooks show that in 1817 they owned their home at Manor Bank Cottage, sixteen acres of land, three labourer's cottages which they rented out and a shop (the nature of which is unknown).

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Comyn also notes the family as dissenters. Michael was baptised into the Baptist congregation at the Lymington church on 26th April 1818. 

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This gravestone marked the resting place of two of their children who both died as young adults.

John Phillips was born in 1799 when his father was 34 and his mother was 29. He was the third of their nine children.

He died, aged 29 and as his death pre-dates the chapel's only surviving burial register (1837 - 1894) we have no details of his burial there. The graveyard was certainly already in use at that time as the Church minutes of 27th September 1824 set out the members resolutions respecting the chapel's land appointed for burials.

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Elizabeth Phillips was born in 1810, the seventh of Michael and Elizabeth's nine children.

She died age 30 and was buried by Rev. William Mursell at the chapel on 15th May 1840. The inscribed dates for Elizabeth are not particularly clear (even after the RTI imaging) but the chapel's burial register has been used to confirm the details.