Lucy Lancaster was born in 1788 in Boldre, the daughter of James and Ann and was baptised at Boldre church on 26th October 1788.

James Bundy was born in 1784 to Francis and Charlotte (nee Birch), the third of their six children. He was baptised at Beaulieu church on 19th October 1784 and he married Lucy there on 1st March 1808, aged 24. Over the next 23 years they had eight children.
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James was baptised into the Baptist church at Lymington on 1st August 1817, aged  33. That year he was also one of the founder members of Beaulieu Rails Baptist chapel being dismissed from the Lymington church to form the new church there.

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Their daughter Hannah was born in 1820 and was baptised on 30th April of that year at Exbury church. Hannah died aged just 11 before the period covered by the chapel's surviving burial register.

Hannah's baptismal record states the family lived at Lepe and James was working as a brickmaker. He may have been working at the Solent Brickworks situated just to the west of Lepe.  

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The 1841 census lists the couple living with their two youngest children at Hilltop and James working as a brickmaker. A newspaper report indicates he had been running his own brickmaking business when he was declared bankrupt in 1847. The 1951 census shows them in their sixties living in Beaulieu Rails (E Boldre) with James 'occupation' given as an annualant indicating he was probably living of an annuity in his retirement.

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James was buried on 24th March 1859 and Lucy on 20th May 1852, both interments were conducted by Rev J B Burt.​