Gene, thank you once again. Excellent work. So, as a generalization we might infer that we have a Richard Carpenter in Little Bedwyn with a daughter born approximately early 16oos. I am assuming she was not quite legal age, but close. This would heighten suspicions that Richard was a brother of William(1). With no other records (as of yet) of a parent family in the area, we might also assume Richard had arrived from elsewhere than the immediate area, as did William (1). BC