The Flemish and Low Country origins of the Herefordshire Carpenters in England was accepted as fact in the greatest work of 19th century French genealogy, the Dictionnaire De La Noblesse by De Le Chenaye-Desbois et Badier, printed in Paris, 1868. There is no mention of the Paris DeMelun family. The family line is traced back well before any possible connection to William The Carpenter DeMelun. Sincerely, Bruce E. Carpenter