http://person.ancestry.com/tree/42685418/person/29797134366/facts I could invite you as a guest, with an email address. Then, you can select the relationship "17 th great-grandfather" to see the direct lineage. If you select see in family tree, you can see hus direct ancestors and immediate family. The relationship is thru his parents, not his marriage. In the 1500's "yeoman" meant a serving man or it meant a landowner, speaking to the the other comment. My Carter family is not Irish. They are that Le Carter family. I would like to know all I can about them before 1145.