History of the Bean Family page 33.
My Grandfather, Henry John May, My Mother's Father CFB.

My Great Grandfather May was married 5 times.
1st wife Bessie Goodwin. She was a lady of St. Osyth and they had one son Thomas May, who afterwards married Miss Sarjeant, and having no children they adopted their niece Eliza Henrietta May (My Mother - CFB)
2nd Wife Miss Sadler, of Bocking Hall, East Mersea. she was a fine handsome woman, and had one daughter Elizabeth who afterwards married Mr Isaac Green.
3rd wife Henrietta Stevens (my great grandmother). She was a charming handsome lady and was an excellent stepmother to Thomas May. She died when her only child, Henry John (my grandfather) was 9 years old. The circumstances of her death are very touching. Her mother, Mrs Stevens, lived in Colchester 10 miles from Mersea. she was taken very ill and her daughter Henrietta brought her away to her own home at West Mersea and nursed her till she died. The daughter immediately took the same illness and died suddenly. Both were buried the same day in the same grave. I have a photograph taken from a large oil painting that was in my Grandfather's possession and at his death became my brother Willoughby's. Mrs Thomas May, my great-aunt, copied this painting in watercolours and it is now in the possession of my sister Mrs Machattie.