961 documented Carpenter ancestors, drawn from public records such as death indexes and county histories. Every name below is a real person in the public record.
Occupational surname for a carpenter, a worker in wood.
Where the records place them: Iowa (99%), out of 948 Carpenter records with a known place.
The most common first names among them: John, Robert, William, Mary and Helen.
Of the 938 with both a birth and a death year, the median lifespan was 77 years.
The earliest recorded birth is Jesse Carpenter, born 1810 in Virginia.
Documented Carpenter families on this page come from History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916), History of Linn County, Iowa, vol 2 and Biographical Record of Jefferson County, Ohio.
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Deceased Carpenter ancestors, earliest first. Living family members are deliberately omitted.
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Occupational surname for a carpenter, a worker in wood.
The documented line here reaches back to 1810. Most Carpenter lines can be traced to the end of the surviving public record.
No. Deceased ancestors only, from public records. Living people are excluded for privacy.
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