!Robert was awell-to-do sheep proprietor. !WILL: His 1607 will lists his wife, who was his cousin Eleanor Carpenter, their children (William, Richard, John, Charles, Robert, Edith, and Alice. A grandson named William and a brother named Richard. He bequeathed money Salibury Cathedral (Old Sarum), which is added evidence for his descent from Vicar Richard Carpenter who had served as Vicar General to the Bishop of Salisbury. He also bequeathed certain lands to his oldest son William and grandson William as well as to his son Richard Carpenter. This Will, copy now at the Carpenter Museum in Rehoboth, MA, is the only one ever found in England that agrees with all the proven facts about the American Carpenter Family. The success in proving this lineage after 300 years of failure was achieved through the superlative work of English Genealogist Harry F. Rogers of Abington, England.
Harry's sister Lilly (Mrs. Leslie Shepard Carpenter) attended a recent reunion (in the early 1990s) of the Carpenter and Related Family Association in Alabama with Raymond G. Carpenter, American Genealogist for the Carpenter Family and his wife Gurli.
More About Robert Carpenter and Eleanor Carpenter: Marriage: Abt. 1575, England.128
Children of Robert Carpenter and Eleanor Carpenter are:
+William Carpenter, b. 1576, Horwell, Hampshire, England128, d. 1638, at sea or near Weymouth, Norfolk, MA128.
Robert Carpenter (b. Abt. 1545, d. 1607)
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