Bruce writes: << To imply that my ancestor James Redway was an Irish waif is unfair and probably not historically accurate. >> I have no idea what prompted this, but I neither said nor implied any such thing. I said that Redway (who is my ancestor, also) arrived in Massachusetts as an indentured servant ("for the terme of three yeares") but nevertheless rose to the status of yeoman. This was in partial demonstration of the fact that the New England class structure was never as rigid as that of Old England. Although Redway's immediate origin was Dublin, it is certain he was *not* Irish: the obituary of editor and publisher George7 Redway (1835-1923) indicates that his father’s family was from Devonshire, England (_Medina [Ohio] Gazette_, 7 Dec. 1923); a survey of IGI entries for England indicates that those bearing his surname and its variants (Reddaway, Radway, Ridway, etc.) were concentrated in that county. In any case, the depiction (real or imagined) of a person as an Irish waif would only seem "unfair" to someone with a low opinion of the Irish and/or of waifs. It seems to me that any further discussion of Redway family history on the Carpenter mailing list would be inappropriate. Gene Z.