Alice Carpenter

Alice was the wife of William "of the Bevis" Carpenter. Perhaps she was the mother of William Carpenter, of Rehoboth, his only known child. Her parents are unknown. She may have been the Alice Carpenter who was buried at Shalbourne on 25 January 1637[/8],

She was not the daughter of Thomas Batt

Update April 2018

William1 sketch's most recent revision (on 4 April 2018) discusses the possibility (tending toward unlikely) that his wife was Alice Swithen (see pp. 2 - 3) of http://carpentercousins.com/Wm1_Shalbourne.pdf

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From Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, "The Family of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters," The American Genealogist'" 70 (Oct. 1995): 194-95 on the web at http://carpentercousins.com/Wm1_Shalbourne.pdf

WILLIAM1 CARPENTER was born in England about 1575 and was still living a few days before 2 May 1638; he died probably at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or Rehoboth,Plymouth Colony (see BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATION, and RESIDENCES sections, below; TAG 70:193 94, 203). ....
MARRIAGE: Despite claims to the contrary, the identity of William1 ™s wife (or wives) is unknown. His having emigrated only three months after the death of Alice Carpenter, who was buried at Shalbourne on 25 January 1637[/8], suggests that she had been his wife (though not necessarily William2 mother); it is possible, however, that she was an unmarried sister or daughter. ....
A William Carpenter married at St. Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 18 April 1605, Mary Bath (not Batt, as per various informal sources) (WiltPaR 5:22). Christopher Batt, a tanner of [New] Sarum (i.e., Salisbury), Wiltshire, was one of the Carpenters fellow passengers on the Bevis. Records of the Batt family of Salisbury, however, indicate that he and a Mary Batt of appropriate age (baptized at St. Thomas 7 Aug. 1584, daughter of Richard and Agnes (Danyell) Batt) would be no more than distant cousins (NEHGR 14:336; Martin, citing NEHGR 51:181 “88, 348 57, 52: 51, 321 “22). It seems likely that this William Carpenter is the same as the infant of that name baptized at St. Thomas on 1 May 1571 (see BIRTH section, above), and that he was a Salisbury resident.

Evidence that the man who married Mary Bath was the eventual William1 Carpenter of Shalbourne has not been found.

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Notes

• A William Carpenter married at St. Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 18 April 1605, Mary Bath (not Batt, as per various informal sources) (WiltPaR 5:22). Christopher Batt, a tanner of [New] Sarum (i.e., Salisbury), Wiltshire, was one of the Carpenters’ fellow passengers on the Bevis. Records of the Batt family of Salisbury, however, indicate that he and a Mary Batt of appropriate age (baptized at St. Thomas 7 Aug. 1584, daughter of Richard and Agnes (Danyell) Batt) “would be no more than distant cousins” (NEHGR 14:336; Martin, citing NEHGR 51:181–88, 348–57, 52:44–51, 321–22). It has not been established that William1 Carpenter was the man of that name who married Mary Bath. (1)

traditional / unproven

"Mary Batt (daughter of Thomas Batt and Mary Byley) was born 1603 in ,Hampshire, England, and died Bef. May 1638 in Wherewell, Hampshire, England. She married William Carpenter, son of Richard Carpenter and Elanore Carpenter. ..."

Sources

1. http://carpentercousins.com/Wm1_Shalbourne.pdf William Carpenter of Newtown, Shalbourne (Bevis 1638). Eugene Zubrinsky, FASG. Last revised 16 October 2010.