Descendants of Hercules MEERING/HOLLOWAY and Elizabeth

Father Hercules MEERING/HOLLOWAY Born 27th August 1728 - Spetisbury Buried When??? - Where??
Mother Elizabeth Born - About?? - Where??

Marriage When ?? - Where ??

Children :-

Grace MEERING Baptized 18 November 1749 - Spetisbury Buried 24 June 1821 - Sturminster Marshall - Aged 82 Years
John MEERING Baptized August 18th 1751 - Spetisbury
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Hercules MEERING Baptized June 19th 1769 - Spetisbury Buried 27th April 1773 - Spetisbury - Aged 4 Years
Betty MEERING Baptized December 2nd 1770 - Spetisbury
Mary MEERING Baptized January 22nd 1775 - Spetisbury Buried July 21st 1776 - Spetisbury - Aged 18 Months

NOTE Not totally happy with this family - they have two children not very far apart and then there is a break
of 18 years before the next child - could it be they moved away from Spetisbury and had more childern away not
recorded in the Spetisbury Registers or did Elizabeth die and was replaced by another wife who was by coincedence
another Elizabeth??? But there is an 18 year gap between John and Hercules - you would imagine if Hercules had other
children elsewhere that he would have named those Hercules as it is his name and he used his father's name for
the first son the had???

I have decided to show the children here as they do appear to be this couple's children although I have to say
I am not totally comfortable with it!!!!!!

The fact that two of the "late" births died in infancy could also explain the geriatric births which often do not
survive for long

Another coincedence is that their child Betty was Baptized the same day as Grace their daughter baptized her
daughter Betty at the same church!!!

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