Betty - I missed your second last post when I last posted, but thanks for both. I am once again just too tired and pushed for time to be able to work it all out now.
I am intentionally staying away from the Zurishiddai line as he was not my direct ancestor and I can't afford to be sidetracked, but on my wanderings trying to find something else, happened upon these archive records, just FYI:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D689153 and
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9619975Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to access that Beath-Tait tree. With my Firefox browser, after taking an eternity, it did eventually show me a page with a list of Girdlestones which looked promising, but then when I tried to navigate, it hung and finally crashed my whole session. I tried on Chrome and Edge, but they tell me "Access is Denied". A shame as it looked as if it may have portrayed some useful info.
Amondg - I started looking at the Norfolk Family History Society, read about NORS and found my way to this page:
http://norfolkfhs.archiveps.co.uk/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=4987 - but I'm not sure who I should address a request for a photo to - can you advise, please?
A few more items of note I forgot to mention, found in the orginal Lethersett parish records:
Thomas Gridlestone, infant - buried 22 Dec 1714.
Ann Palgrave - buried 9 Jan 1718.
Richard Girdleston - buried 9 Nov 1724.
Thomas Girdlstone, Gent. buried 11 July 1731.
[James Harvin - buried 20 Feb 1711]
And then there was Nathaniel Palgrave, Rector of Letheringsett, buried 24(?) Dec 1705.
I have been in touch with a man who runs a website about Palgraves, and he has said
"The Rev Nathaniel Palgrave was Rector of Letheringsett throughout the last quarter of the 17th Century.
There are several instances of Palgrave being used as a first name. The Rev Nathaniel Palgrave was the son of Sir John Palgrave of North Barningham Hall so he was well connected." and also
"Is it possible that the Rev Nathaniel Palgrave (Sometimes Pagrave) was a godparent? Sometimes the baptismal name was derived from the godparent so there is not necessarily a family relationship. Pagrave/Palgrave was a useful name to have as that branch of the family included Sir John Palgrave who subsequently was one of Cromwell’s Colonels in the Civil War."
- which sounds quite plausible, were it not for the fact that our (elder) Palgrave/Pagrave G. died around the same time as the rector... but perhaps his father or mother was a godparent?
I'm not sure when I'll be able to come back to this, but will update you with any further findings. I will in the meantime probably just use the FamilySearch user genealogies (IGI) as refs to document Richard's parents (Thomas - Elizabeth Pyle) and come back to that another time too.