Paternal Family Tree: Carpenter
On 10th February 1657 George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter was born to Warncombe Carpenter.
On 27th January 1678 John Margetson [aged 22] and [his future wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 17] were married. His sister Anne Margetson [aged 21] married her brother [his future brother-in-law] William Caulfeild 2nd Viscount Charlemont [aged 23] six months later.
On 11th July 1678 [his future brother-in-law] William Caulfeild 2nd Viscount Charlemont [aged 23] and Anne Margetson [aged 21] were married at St Michan's Church, Dublin. His sister [his future wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 17] had married her brother John Margetson [aged 22] six months before.
On 23rd January 1693 George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 35] and Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 32] were married.
Around 1695 [his son] George Carpenter 2nd Baron Carpenter was born to George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 37] and [his wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 34] at Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire. He married 26th August 1722 Elizabeth Petty Baroness Carpenter and had issue.
Before 1704 Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 24] and [his step-daughter] Sarah Margetson [aged 25] were married. They were second cousins.
Around 1705 [his daughter] Alicia Carpenter was born to George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 47] and [his wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 44]. She died aged nine in 1714.
Before 1714 [his daughter] Alicia Carpenter [aged 8] died.
Between 22nd January 1715 and 9th March 1715 the 1715 General Election was held. The election had been caused by George I's [aged 54] succession. The Whig party, which supported George I, won an overwhelming majority.
John Rushout 4th Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Malmesbury.
Leonard Smelt [aged 32] was elected MP Northallerton.
Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet [aged 30] was elected MP Thirsk.
George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 57] was elected MP Whitchurch.
In 1719 George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 61] was created 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary. [his wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 58] by marriage Baroness Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary.
On 26th August 1722 [his son] George Carpenter 2nd Baron Carpenter [aged 27] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Petty Baroness Carpenter were married at Leyton, Essex.
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In December 1722 George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 65] was elected MP Westminster.
On 7th October 1731 [his wife] Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter [aged 70] died.
On 10th February 1732 George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 75] died. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Owlesbury [Map]. His son George [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Baron Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary. Elizabeth Petty Baroness Carpenter by marriage Baroness Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary.