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ancestry follows in this work. Mr. and
Mrs. Child became the parents of four
children, all born in Putnam : Ruth Carpenter,
born December 23, 1899; Bertha
Elizabeth, born December 19, 1906; Edith
Whitney, born December 12, 1907; Don-
ald Ezra, born January 29, 1909.
(The Carpenter Line).
"The noble family of Carpenters, from
which the Earl of Tyrconnel is descended,
is of great antiquity in the County of
Hereford and other parts of England. In
1303 (the twentieth year of the reign of
Edward I), John Carpenter appeared. He
was a member of Parliament in 1323, for
the borough of Leskard, in Cornwall, as
two years afterwards was Stephen Car-
penter, for Credition, in the County of
Devon, in 1325, (the ninth year of the
reign of Edward II).
"Henry Carpenter served, in 1418, for
the town of Derby in the thirty-fifth year
of Henry V." Playfair's British Antiqui-
ties.
The Tyrconnel branch is descended
from William Carpenter, of Homme, who
resided in the parish of Dilwyne, in Here-
fordshire. He died in 1520. He had a
son, James Carpenter, who died in 1537.
This James Carpenter had a son, John
Carpenter, who died in 1540 and left a son,
William Carpenter, the most prominent
ancestor of the Tyrconnel Carpenters,
who died in 1550. From this William
Carpenter our family also claims descent.
The family remained country gentlemen
for six generations, until the birth of
Thomas Carpenter, who bequeathed his
estate on his death in 1773 to a second
cousin, George Carf>enter, who became
the first Lord Carpenter. In 1761, the
Earldom of Tryconnel in Ireland was
given to a third George Carpenter. This
branch finally became extinct in 1853. See
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Davis & Owne's New Peerage, also
Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. The
coat-of-arms of the Carpenter family is
as follows
:
Arms—Argent, a greyhound passant, and chief
sable.
Crest—A greyhound's head erased, per fesse sable
and argent.
From the meagre materials at hand it is
impossible for us to establish, with that
degree of precision we should like, the
connection between the English Carpen-
ters and William Carpenter, the ancestor
of the family in America, who came to
Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1638, in the
ship "Bevis." But we think we have in-
formation enough to show beyond a reasonable
doubt that the break of a hundred
years or so between John Carpenter, Sr.
(a brother of John Carpenter, the town
clerk of London), and William Carpenter,
who is acknowledged to be the ancestor
of the American family, can be satisfac-
torily filled. This granted, we can trace
the family back to John Carpenter, of
1303, the head of the ancient line in Here-
fordshire in the parish of Dilwyne, to
whom the Irish Tyrconnels trace their
descent. This Hereford family of Carpenters
was very prominent in affairs, and
took an active part in all matters relating
to the interests of the Crown ; probably
no family in England stood higher for
good deeds or received more favors.
Among the most famous of these Carpenters
was John, town clerk of London,
who died in 1442. But the English line
from John Carpenter, 1303, became ex-
tinct in 1853, and it is in America that the
continuation of the family must be looked
for.
It would not be inappropriate here to
insert the following extract from the
"History of the City of London School,"