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From: "Bruce E. Carpenter" <>
Subject: [CARPENTER] overview
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:28:03 -0700

All the will evidence for Carpenters in the late 1400s to early
1500s show a decided generational distribution. The clothier Thomas
Carpenter of Reading was active to about 1500 when an entirely new
generation of clothier Carpenters takes over. There was the John who was son
of Reading Thomas. There was the Hungerford Thomas active in 1524. To this
group we should add Upton Scudamore Robert, also in a clothier related
business. All these people share geography, business, given and family name.
The earliest of the group was a Roger Carpenter of Newberry, himself surely
a clothier. Roger, Thomas, William, Robert and John are given names repeated
again and again. The Marden Carpenters also seem to have preceeded by a
Thomas Carpenter, who had title to the rectory and possibly the land
connected to it:


"In 1534 the prior of Bradenstoke let the rectory (Marden rectory) to Thomas
Carpenter at L.8 yearly, a rental which remained constant throughout the
16th century and earlier 17th centuries." (P.121)

BC

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