Family:John Carman and Florence Unknown (2)

MARRIAGE: Wife Florence, joined Roxbury church after husband; since first child was born in July 1633, they could have married in New England. Normally Eliot, when giving more than the name of the head of the family upon admission, would say that he brought a wife with him. Since "Florenc[e] Carman the wife of John Carman" was admitted many places after John Carman (member #62), and among a number of persons who came in 1632, it is likely that she arrived in that year and married Carman very soon [RChR 77].

“Although wide credence has been given the statement that John Carman was the son-in-law of Robert Fordham, we have found nothing to substantiate it, nor have we found any evidence of contacts between the two men before their purchase of Hempstead from the Indians. Neither is listed among the inhabitants of Stamford of that period. We have seen that John Carman came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony (from Hampshire ?) in 1631; at that time Robert Fordham was Vicar in Flamsted, Herts, and until he came to America in 1638 he held that assignment, and was also a licensed preacher in Lincoln Diocese; he was born in 1603,--hence hardly old enough to be John Carman's father-in-law.”