When Mary Carpenter was born on 26 February 1739, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Eleazer Carpenter, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Warfield, was 21. She died on 9 May 1756, in her hometown, at the age of 17, and was buried in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
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English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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