Author: Carpenter, Samuel
Biography:
CARPENTER, Samuel (1808-49: findmypast.co.uk)
He was born to Samuel and Mary Carpenter on 23 Oct. 1808 and baptised in the non-conformist chapel in Hoxton, London, on 30 Nov. 1808. Like his father, he became a shoemaker or cordwainer; the family operated a business on London Street in Greenwich. He married Lucy Moss in St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, on 4 Nov. 1828. Although they married in a church, the birth in Greenwich of their eldest child, a son, on 25 Feb. 1830 was recorded in the non-conformist registers. They had at least three more children. The Preface to Industry’s Wreath states that it was intended to raise money for the chapel in Greenwich where, for eleven years, Carpenter spent Sundays as a “teacher of babes.” He would have been just twelve when he began teaching Sunday school. The subscription list to his book includes members of his and Lucy’s families. In 1844 he served as the secretary of a committee for establishing a new Sunday school in Greenwich which would operate “on the principles of the British and Foreign School Society.” In 1845 he, his father, and other members of the non-conformist chapel in Greenwich were called before the magistrates for non-payment of the obligatory church rates; newspaper articles record that such summonses recurred regularly. Carpenter died of cholera at Greenwich on 4 Sept. 1849. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Oct. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 23 Oct. 2023; Kentish Independent 30 Nov. 1844; Kentish Independent 8 Feb. 1846; Kentish Mercury 8 Sept. 1849)