Someone asked how the Charpenters in the English records could have any connection to the Flemish Carpentiers. The name is different. I think the difference in the two names reflected two different French language usages in the Middle Ages. The French used in England was Norman French, which from at least the time of the Conquest, had probably diverged in pronunciation. The French in Flanders had itself been subject to change I suspect, and itself differed from French spoken in Paris by say 1300. Thus a Carpentier who gets off the boat in England immediately becomes a Charpenter. BC