Thanks for your feedback Brad. I've found keeping a calculator handy helps with genealogy. The math wasn't adding up with the claimed descent from Edward III. I got a laugh out of one royal ancestry for Thomas Lawrence going through the Lawrences. One person used a scan from a published genealogy to show that one Lawrence descended from another. Unfortunately the person never bothered to read the genealogy as it clearly said that this one Lawrence did not have children. I do agree that John Lawrence's parents were probably William Lawrence and Katherine Beaumont/Katerine Beawmond. Greene didn't think so and had said back in 1989 that he was preparing an article on the Lawrence genealogy, but, so far as I know, he has not published this. Peter D. A. Warwick