Person:Henry Carpenter (19)

!Could this Henry be confused with the Henry born about 1379 of Bristol?

!A Henry Carpenter served in 1418, for the town of Derby as a member of the English Parliament. Per Playfairs Britsh Antiquities, London 1810. It is speculation that Henry belonged to this family. He probably was related. At this point in History, the youngest male of age was sent to represent his family interests in Parilment. Not listed in the Will of John (the noted Town Clerk of London) the younger's will of 1441.

!E-MAIL: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 From: Bruce E. Carpenter <carp@tezukayama-u.ac.jp> John: After returning to my Japan office I looked through the Carpenter material I had previously collected. Long ago I had printed the Carpenter family history from The Demott Family pages that were available. In those pages he has Town Clerk John's brother Robert as having sons Henry and Richard. These two names tally with material I found on Carpenters in the Bristol Bay area. Henry was a well connected Bristol merchant and Richard served the the king's brother Thomas of Lancaster. Other documents I found connect Robert to Gloustershire. In the book City of London School Robert is mentioned as checking the fish weirs on the Thames. This Robert seems more likely the son of Thomas Carpenter of Kingston-on-Thames (son of Roger). This Robert was also a Cinque Port official. This groupof Carpenters has never garined the attention of previous researchers. Roger seems the most likely father of Richard the father of John the Town Clerk. Thus it seems to me that it was Robert the Town Clerk's brother that extended the family into the Bristol Bay area. The Bishop Carpenter must have been more closely connected to the original London group. Robert's son or grandson? In 1433 he ends his position as king's clerk, a younger cleric's position. Born about 1410? Brother of Richard and Henry. Bishop John was also the real conduit of money to the Lancasters. Has to be merchant money. Who was Robert and who was Bishop John? Bruce Carpenter