Mathijs Trepels - Wrong parents?

Jan Hugens DID marry Maria Trepels but not until 1839, 5 years after Mathijs' birth.

I am not actually sure that Machtilda and Maria are the same name, perhaps Mathijs' mother (Machtilda) was a sister of Maria?

Well someone thinks Maria = Mechtilda

Mechtilde Trepels is geboren op 07-01-1807 in Maasbree, dochter van Gisbertus Trepels (zie IV-h) en Cornelia Heijnen. Mechtilde is overleden op 14-03-1866 in Maasbree, 59 jaar oud. Mechtilde:
(1) begon een relatie met NN.
(2) trouwde, 32 jaar oud, op 07-05-1839 in Venlo met Joannes Henricus Huges, 51 jaar oud. Joannes is geboren op 08-01-1788 in Heijen, zoon van Jacobus Huges en Gertrudis Verbeeten. Hij is gedoopt op 08-01-1788 in Heijen. Joannes is overleden op 08-09-1846 in Maasbree, 58 jaar oud. Joannes is weduwnaar van Maria Antonia de Silvé, met wie hij trouwde vóór 1839.
(3) trouwde, 42 jaar oud, op 02-06-1849 in Maasbree met Pieter Craenen, 47 jaar oud. Pieter is geboren op 11-05-1802 in Roggel, zoon van Bernardus Craenen en Petronella Peters. Hij is gedoopt op 11-05-1802 in Roggel. Pieter is overleden op 18-02-1856 in Maasbree, 53 jaar oud. Pieter is weduwnaar van Jeanne Elisabeth Nijs, met wie hij trouwde vóór 1849.

http://www.remeijer.nl/files/u2/genealogie/Parenteel%20Theodor%20Tr...

Jason Scott Wills

Maria and Mechtilde do appear to be the same woman.
She is named Mechtilde at birth and death, her death record lists her partner as Jan Hendriks Hugen (who we know married Maria).
I think Jan married young, had a family then his wife died so he married a younger woman, after Jan died she married again to Pieter Craenen(?)....

Unless Pieter was her first husband? But there is no mention of her being a widow when she marries Jan?

Oops, i actually re-read the Dutch text that i posted a couple of days ago.

In abbreviated form it says Maria/Mechtilde had:
1) relationship with an unknown man
2) marriage to Jan
3) marriage to Pieter

The site doesn't give any details for children but it seems obvious to me that the only way anyone would know she had a relationship with an unknown person is if there was a baby 9 months later. So i think Mathijs' father is NN

Ok so i did some number crunching on the hypothesis that Mathijs' father was Jan Hendrik Hugens and that there had been an affair between Jan and Mathijs' mother while Jan was still married to his first wife.

Mathijs is born 1834.
Maria de Silve (Jan's first wife) dies October 1838
Jan and Mechtilde Triepels(Mathijs' mother) marry May 1839
Mechtilde has a baby (Frans) in Jan 1840

The birth of Frans in January shows that Mechtilde was pregnant when she married Jan in May the year before, assuming a nine month pregnancy Frans was conceived in April 1839 which was six months after Jan became a widower.

I think on balance that a man who had been a widower for 6 months getting a woman pregnant and then marrying her is not in any way suggestive that this man is also the unnamed father of that woman's child who had been born 5 years earlier out of wedlock.

Probably best to go with NN father unless there is proof