I have some notes from an Edmunds Researcher who says that Samuel and Maria Gill were First Cousins. I presume it is a connection between Matilda and Mercy Hughes

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Northern Lass wrote:wonder if it is the other dau that is the link... cos hughes is a popular name so Matilda might not be sister of Mercy and Mona
need marriage to cf for Matilda
and the bapt might help
1850
EDMUNDS Charles HUGHES Monah Cradley, St Peter Dudley Register Office 013/001/52
any clues on later census for Matilda what they call the kids