Thank you for all the information. I think the idea that there might have been a connection by marriage between Hester Cowmeadow and Thomas Yap through Elizabeth Williams sounds realistic. I have tried to work out which James Cowmeadow married a Elizabeth Williams. The son of William and Elizabeth? I don't have have all the Cowmeadows clear. The Yap/Beale/Cowmeadows certainly seem interconnected.

Was William Webb a church official at Walford?