Person:Alice Unknown (635)

Uncertain Identity

The name of the wife of William Carpenter is unknown. This record assumes she was the Alice Carpenter who was buried at Shalbourne on 25 Jan 1637/38^[4], 3 months before William emigrated to New England.

1. ↑ The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   70:193-204.

   at 194–95, citing Shalbourne Parish Records (Bishops' Transcripts).

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 William1 Carpenter of Newtown, Shalbourne, Wiltshire (Bevis, 1638), in Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. Carpenter Sketches: Links to Sketches And Articles Representing the Most Current and Reliable Scholarship Concerning Early Generations of the Carpenter Families of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island and Their Ancestors. (Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters, 2008)
   page 2.

   'Despite claims to the contrary, the identity of William1’s wife (or wives) is unknown. His having emigrated only three months after the death of Alice Carpenter, who was buried at Shalbourne on 25 January 1637[/8], suggests that she had been his wife (though not necessarily William2’s mother); it is possible, however, that she was an unmarried sister or daughter (TAG 70:194–95).'

3. ↑ The estimation of birth year is for the wife of William Carpenter, which might or might not be the Alice Carpenter buried at Shalbourne 25 Jan 1637/38.
4. ↑ Zubrinsky, Carpenter Sketches page 2