Person:Frideswide Carpenter (1)

Exact birth date and place and marriage date and place unknown, in spite of being provided in some secondary records. (Information from Gene Zubrinsky).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Richard^A Carpenter of Amesbury, Wiltshire, 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 3.

   'FRIDESWIDE [pron. Friddusweed] CARPENTER (forename, from Old English Fritheswith,
   found in Amesbury and Providence records as Frittisweed, Fridizweed, Fridgesweet[e], and Fridgswett—never Fridgswith, as per Carpenter [1901] and others), bur. Amesbury 22 Nov. 1680;'

2. ↑ Birth year estimated based on approx marriage year (1631), assuming she was about 20 at time of marriage, and 2 years apart from other siblings (in this case, one brother).
3. ↑ !SEE: Amesbury Parish Records. Burial of "Ffridizwood Vincent was buryd november 22nd 1680." The Three Tuns Inn that was kept by Fridgswith is still in existance now known as the New Inn and has little evidence of its antiquity.
   Per Mary Underwood, Treasurer, Amesbury Society, 2 April 1992.
   
   E-MAIL: From: Gene Zubrinksy
   To: <CARPENTER-L "at" rootsweb.com>
   Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:46 AM
   Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: Prov. Wm. problem
   << See my notes below on "Ffridizwood Carpenter Vincent." >>
   The name appears in her Amesbury burial record as "ffridizweed" and is appropriately transcribed as "Fridizweed." The "ff" (not "Ff") is equivalent to "F". The "oo" is actually "ee". The lower-case "e" in 16th- and 17th-century handwriting is often mistaken for "o" by the uninitiated reader.
   Gene Z.