1582 "Nathaniell Carpenter Sonn of Alexander Carpenter" was "Christened the xxvth" of July at St. James, Bath, Somerset. [1]
1583/84 "Julian Carpenter the Daughter of Alexander Carpenter" was "Christened the vijth" of March at St. James, Bath, Somerset. [2]
c 1587 Daughter Alice may have been baptized about this time, but a record for her has not been found in either the St. James, Bath, registor or in the Wrington register.
1589 "Joa[n] Carpenter the daughter of Elisander Carpenter" was baptized on August 2 in Wrington, Somerset, England. [3] [4]
1592 "An Karpender the daughter of Alexander Karpender" was "baptized the first day of October" in Wrington, Somerset, England. [5] [6]
1593 "Annis Carpenter the daughter of Elisander Carpenter" was baptized on December 16 in Wrington, Somerset, England. [7]
1596/97 "Mary Carpinder ye daughter of Elisander Carpinder" was "baptized ye 6 of February" in Wrington, Somerset, England. [8] [9]
1598 Priscilla Carpender the daughter of Elisander Carpender" was "baptized the 3 daye of September" in Wrington, Somerset, England. [10]
Research Notes:
The Great Migration Begins states, [11]
Alexander Carpenter from Wrington "was on 16 December 1600 [NS] witness at the Amsterdam marriage of "Antoine Fetcher" and "Jenneken Richeman" [J. de Hoop Scheffer, History of the Free Churchmen ... (Ithaca NY n.d.), p. 186]. He was at Leiden by 1611 [Dexter 608]. In a letter of 19 August 1644 or 1646 to Mary Carpenter of Wrington, sister of his wife Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Bradford, William Bradford noted that the mother of the Carpenter sisters had recently died, and invited Mary to join them in Plymouth, which she soon did [NEHGR 14:195-96]. The years of birth of the sisters are approximated based on the ages at death of Juliann, Mary and Priscilla. These dates are all consistent with one another. Some of these women, however, seem to be a few years older than the norm at their first marriages, and extreme ages at death are frequently exaggerated, so it may be that all these estimated birth dates should be shifted forward by a few years. In 1988 Janet K. Pease published some entries from the IGI which purport to relate to this family, but many of them were clearly not from the parish registers [MQ 38:190]. A year later Myrtle Hyde published the results of research that had been carried out in 1971 in the registers of St. James, Bath, and Wrington, Somersetshire [MQ 39:182-83]; these entries seem more reliable, but some discrepancies remain.
- Juliann, born say 1583; m. (1) George Morton; m. (2) Plymouth bef. 22 May 1627 Manasseh Kempton; d. Plymouth 19 February 1664 "aged fourscore and one year" [PCR 8:25].
- Agnes, born say 1585; m. as his second wife Samuel Fuller
- Alice, born say 1590; m. (1) Edward Southworth (father of Constant Southworth and Thomas Southworth); m.(2) Plymouth 14 August 1623 William Bradford [MD 30:4].
- Mary, born say 1596; d. Plymouth unmarried "20th March 1687 in 91 year" [PVR 133].
- Priscilla, born say 1598; m. (1) William Wright; m. (2) Plymouth 27 November 1634 John Cooper [PCR 1:32]; d. Plymouth "28th Dec. 1689 in 92d year" [PVR 133].
[1] St. James, Bath, Somerset, Parish Register, 1569-1694, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\ba.ja/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] St. James, Bath, Somerset, Parish Register, 1569-1694, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\ba.ja/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1610, 1770-1772, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1809, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/2, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage].
[5] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1610, 1770-1772, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1809, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/2, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1610, 1770-1772, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1610, 1770-1772, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage].
[9] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1809, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/2, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] Wrington, Somerset, Parish Register, 1538-1610, 1770-1772, Somerset Archives & Local Studies, Reference Number D\P\wri/2/1/1, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[11] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 314, [AmericanAncestors].