SUBMITTER:
Sheila Carpenter Bourner via letters in 1997.NOTE:
His GRANDchildren, John, William, James and Jesse inherited property
under his will by virtue of which they had the vote in shire elections. In
1832 John has a Bishop's Street address but he, William and James have freehold
houses in Carpenter's Lane. Jesse's property is in Matilda Place Foleshill and
he has Nov a Scotia gardens Bethnal Green London as his address. John and
Jesse are not on the voters' list for 1836.THE FOLESHILL INCLOSURE ACT - 1775.
From this Act we can date Carpenter's Lane which was created by it to give
access to plots of land awarded to - for the most part - members of the
Carpenter family!
All those inheriting parts of William's father's land under his will were
deemed entitled to receive a plot by virtue of their possession of "ancient
cottages" ie dwellings more than 25 years old, as their rightful share of the
waste land now being enclosed. So William and John Carpenter received plots
and so did John Croft, William Gilbert, James Roberts and Thomas Moore who had
married their sisters.
However, it seems to have been William who set about exploiting his
acquisition by dividing the land among his sons and helping them with the cost
of building weavers' cottages upon it. His will is specific about the
tenements and the sums still owing.
They lived in some and rented out others, none of them being very large and
most being still there in the large scale early Ordnance Survey maps.
Unusually, the Foleshill Inclosure Act did not require cottagers and other
poor to contribute to the costs of the enclosure and this, together with the
prospering ribbon industry, meant that they had a chance of retaining their
allocations and did not come under financial pressure to sell them.
Consequently in 1850 Foleshill is described in Lascelles Directory as a
parish "remarkable for the number of small landowners".
William and Rachel Carpenter have a memorial in St Lawrence's Church
Foleshill and died within a year of each other in their eighties.MARRIAGE: Married at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, Warwickshire.
Banns called in St Lawrence Foleshill 4, 11, 18 Feb 1759 but no
marriage between William Carpenter of the parish of Holy Trinity and
Rebecca Buckley of this parish.
QUAY 3.
Per A. Murphy records baptism date 28 JAN 1770.
BIRTH: abt 1759 of Foleshill per A. Murphy records.
!MARRIAGE: Married at St Lawrence Foleshill Warwickshire.
Joseph was a minor married with consent of parents in presence of
William Carpenter and Jonathan Smith.
Was this the Jesse Carpenter who married Sophia Pritchard in Shoreditch on
13 May 1805? And maybe the same Jesse who married Mary Ann Dinah Bliss at
Bethnal Green (London?) on 27 Sept. 1832 and had Jesse Thomas
Carpenter baptised 11 Aug. 1833 in Bethnal Green?
Did he emigrate?
OCCUPATION: Butcher.
!BIRTH: Great Heath Foleshill
WILL: His will dated 11 Oct 1816 names William Jackson and Charles Downs as
trustees, wife Elizabeth, property in Carpenter's Lane Foleshill and
butcher's shop "now occupied by son John" to John, Letitia, and Fanny.
DEAT QUAY 3.
MARRIAGE: Place - St Lawrence Foleshill Warwicks
Source - witness to marriage is Thomas Dudley who married Mary
Carpenter in 1757 - Abraham witnessed this marriage.
DEATH:Died at age 80.
BIRTH: Foleshill, Warwickshire.
MARRIAGE: Place - St Lawrence Foleshill Warwickshire.
BIRTH: Per A. Murphy Records, birth about 1770.
DEATH:Place listed as St Lawrence Foleshill Warwickshire.
Death date listed as Feb 26 - year between 1767 and 1771 - William son of
William and Mary Carpenter - but "Mary" is not completely certain.
BAPTISM: DATE AUG 1771. This appears to have been a late baptism
presumably just before marriage.
!MARRIAGE: DATE CIRCA 1771, late baptism because of marriage? -
but not apparently in St Lawrence.