Person:Katherine Unknown (179)

!WILL: See the copy of her 2 wills in the Carpenter Memorial on pages 20-27. E-MAIL: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 Bruce Carpenter While working upon my article on John Carpenter Town Clerk Of London I reread his wife Kathrine's Will where she states that her husband's brothers and sisters were buried in St. Martin Outwich church. She wrote this in 1458. In 1441 both brothers Robert and John were alive. In her 1458 Will she refers to brother Robert Carpenter, but does not refer to him as deceased. If we assume that Town Clerk's older brother John was deceased in 1458, then there was another, or other brothers, than John and Robert. In the London Encyclopedia it states the church of St. Martin's Outwich itself was only built in 1403. Its first patrons were the controlling guild members of the tailors and linen armourers. In the immediate vicinity was the St. Anthony's Hospital, a charity and educational establishment supported and even controlled by the Carpenter family. We can assume from the 1403 date that the father Richard died after 1403 and that there was another brother or more alive by 1403 that Robert and John.

E-MAIL: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 From: "Bruce E. Carpenter" The following was an interesting surprise discovery that was overlooked previously in my searches through 1400s English historical documents: "Letters of denization for Kathrine Carpenter of London, widow, born in Seland." Seland is otherwise spelled Zeeland. This was from PATENT ROLLS Jan. 20, 1446.