George Miller was born circa 1776 to Robert and Elizabeth (nee Phillips) who lived in Beaulieu parish, the eldest of their six children. George was baptised at Beaulieu church on 20th April 1777 by Richard Burleigh.

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Lydia Tinsley was born in 1770 to Isaac and Elizabeth (nee Cousens). She was baptised on 16th December 1770 in Bishops Waltham.

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In 1791 she married John Peckham on 6th December 1791 in Alverstoke and they had a son Joseph in 1795. 

 

Lydia was recently widowed, when she married ​George at Beaulieu church on 11th July 1797. They had eight children, born between 1797 and 1819.

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The Rev Comyn's notebooks (circa 1817) list the couple as dissenters (i.e. Baptists) living at the property now called Old Tinsleys (named for Lydia's family).

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The 1841 census shows Lydia and George, an agricultural labourer, lived in Beaulieu Rails with their 20 year old, youngest  son Jacob. George's age is given as 60, Lydia as 65 but these do not quite tally with birth records or his gravestone.

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George was buried by the Rev John Bartlett Burt at the chapel on 28th Feb 1845.

 

Lydia died in March 1846 aged 74 (according to the chapel's burial register and the lower part of the gravestone number 37) and was buried there by William Mursell on the 20th March 1846.