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 1772 to Isaac and Elizabeth Tinsley. She was recently widowed with an infant son Joseph when she married ​George at Beaulieu church on 11th July 1797.Together they had eight children 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, the Tinsleys).

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In 1841 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, L:ydia 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 was buried there by William Mursell on the 20th March 1846.