The English surname Carpenter occupational name for a worker in wood, derived from the Norman French carpentier, from the Late Latincarpentarius meaning “cartwright.” The first written reference to the name is in 1121 when Godwin Carpentar, was recorded in the "Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds", Suffolk. William Carpenter, aged 19 yrs., was an early emigrant to the New World Colonies, leaving London on the "Expedition", bound for the Barbados in November 1635.
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