I have Kate. Mary Carpenter's father left a will which mentions her as Mary Dudley (she got £10!), and two of her daughters (Elizabeth and Ann) were apprenticed as silk weavers, but nothing concrete beyond that.
The Carpenters and Jephcotts appear to have been two of the more affluent families in the village at the time. The Dudleys seem to have been less influential, although a 1930s housing development did have a Dudley Street which may have hearkened back to them.
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