Person:Richard Carpenter (1)
Richard Carpenter
b.Est 1578 probably Marden, Wiltshire, England
 
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Richard CarpenterEst 1578 -
  2. William CarpenterEst 1580 -
  3. Robert Carpenter, JrEst 1582 -
  4. Edith CarpenterEst 1585 -
  5. John CarpenterEst 1588 -
  6. Alice CarpenterEst 1590 -
  7. Charles CarpenterEst 1594 -
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Facts and Events
Name Richard Carpenter
Gender Male
Birth? Est 1578 probably Marden, Wiltshire, England
Other? Not to be confused with: Richard Carpenter (2)

Richard was listed with his mother, as primary beneficiary and co-executor of his father's will[1]. This probably makes him either the oldest in the family or the youngest in sequence of listing in the will. I believe he was the eldest making him born before about 1580. Why? If he was the youngest, being born about 1590/1595 then he would have been about 11 to 16 years of age in 1606, the year of his father's will.

Gene Zubrinsky writes:
Among the children named in the will of Robert Carpenter of Marden (dated in 1607) are sons William and Richard. While it has been claimed that these were William1 Carpenter of Shalbourne and Richard Carpenter of Amesbury, there is no evidence whatsoever to support this. In fact, what evidence there is militates against it, as may be seen in Gene Zubrinsky's notes for (1) Richard Carpenter of Amesbury, MARRIAGE and COMMENTS sections (par. 2 in each), and (2) William Carpenter of Shalbourne, COMMENTS (par. 1). Found elsewhere in Zubrinsky's notes for these two men are the following additional facts that similarly cast doubt on the claim that they were sons of Robert of Marden: While the Marden Carpenters were sheepmen, William of Shalbourne was a carpenter and subsistence farmer, and Richard of Amesbury was a townsman, probably a tradesman (perhaps a carpenter like his son, William1 Carpenter of Providence). And although William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth (son of William1 of Shalbourne) and William1 Carpenter of Providence each had six sons and many more grandsons, none is named Robert. (end comment)

References
  1. ↑ Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. Abiah3 Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, and his family. Appendix 1: Were William1 Carpenter of Providence and William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth first cousins?, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    159(2005):66.

    'Robert's will, dated 12 January 1606[/7?] and proved 21 May 1607, names sons William, Robert, John, and Charles, daughters Edith and Alice, brother Richard, "my sonnes childe Will[ia]m," and (as co-executors and principal legatees) son Richard and wife Elinor. Neither the will nor any other known record indicates which, if any, of Robert's children he fathered with Elinor.'

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