<< The marriage of a William Carpenter was recorded in the parish register in 1625. >> While this is undoubtedly true, one should not expect to find the record there. The earliest extant parish register for Shalbourne begins in 1672. The evidence implying that the marriage of William Carpenter and Abigail Briant was recorded in an earlier register is an entry in the 1625 Bishop's Transcripts of Shalbourne parish records (FHL microfilm 1,279,426, item 11). Gene Z.