Coles Carpenter Jr., son of Coles Carpenter and Elizabeth Birdsall, was born 29 Oct 1804[1] at Richmond Corners, Queens, New Brunswick. Coles married Sarah Sypher on 25 Sep 1828 in New Brunswick.[1] Sarah Magdala Cyphers, daughter of David and Mary, was baptized 10 Mar 1811 at Grand Lake, New Brunswick.[2]
Note: Coles and Sarah named one of their sons George Robinson Carpenter. He was born at Wickham, Queens County on 24 Jul 1837. Another Coles Carpenter lost his young wife, Sarah Eliza Robinson, to consumption at Hampstead, Queens County on 9 Apr 1837, an indication that the two Coles Carpenters were related.
Sarah M. Carpenter died in New Brunswick in 1851 at the age of 41.[12]
Coles Carpenter, aged 57, is living with a son and daughter beside the Cyphers family at Richmond, Carleton County, New Brunswick in 1861:[13]
Coles, 57
Archileas, 27
Rebecca, 21
In 1871 Coles, aged 67, lives with his son Archy, wife Maria and their children at at Richmond, Carleton County.[14] Coles, aged 76, is recorded on the 1881 Census for Richmond, Carleton, New Brunswick, still living with the family of his son Archealus, a farmer.[15]
Research Notes
This is not the Coles Carpenter who married Catherine Green, widow of Willett Carpenter (Coles was a first cousin of both Willett Carpenter and Catherine Green).
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland. History and genealogy of the Carpenter family in America, from the settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901. Marion Press. Jamaica, N.Y. 1901, Coles Carpenter, pg. 154
↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4MV-1ZL : 2 March 2021), Sarah Supher in entry for Phoebe E Ebbett, 06 Jun 1907; citing Boston,,Massachusetts, 317, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,258,666.
↑ "Canada Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4MX-PMH : 18 March 2021), David Carpenter, Richmond, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; citing 1871; citing National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
↑Descendants of WIllett Carpenter by Miles Ludlow Carpenter
↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23Y4-4Z9 : 1 September 2021), David in entry for Garfield Carpenter and Grace T Thompson Drown, 1916.
↑ “Canada, New Brunswick County Registers of Births Index, ca. 1812-1919", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2X6-7J4 : 6 November 2020), Archilles Carpenter in entry for Frederick A. Carpenter, 1864.
↑ “Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW9S-VQ3 : 2 March 2021), George R. Carpenter, 25 Dec 1885; citing Danvers, Massachusetts, v 364 p 191 no 177, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,228.
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