Dear Bruce, Joseph Hatten Carpenter was born in England of a fairly well to do family. After traveling abroad for a time, he settled in Utah after being converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. After becoming interested in Genealogy, he went back to England and collected thousands of names over several years in research from England and France. He was a writer and contributed to the Utah Genealogical Magazine for many years. He published no major works on Carpenter genealogy. His ancestral line comes from the Somerset Carpenters then Gloucestershire before attaching to the the Carpenters of Homme. INDIVIDUAL DATA RIN:49485 - ------------------------------------------------- Name:Joseph Hatten CARPENTER Sex:M ID No:26V3-LN Birth: 4 Apr 1861 Place:Devonport,Devonshire,England Chr: Place: Marr:12 Jun 1889 Spouse:Matilda Sophia ALDER-49487 Marr:30 Sep 1920 Spouse:Lydia Euphrosine SCHRAMM-49486 Marr: Spouse: Death:10 Dec 1964 Place:Manti,Sanpete,UT Burial:14 Dec 1964 Place:Manti,Sanpete,UT Father:Robert Wright CARPENTER R-49477 Mother:Elizabeth Link HATTEN-49480 AND As noted in my 10 Oct. 1999 E-MAIL message ... Under "SOURCE:" is ... J. Hatton Carpenter's "The Carpenter Family" in The Utah Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 16, pp. 60-70. Joseph Hatton Carpenter spent many years in England and France carrying around notebooks. Every where he found Carpenters in England and France recorded he wrote them down in one of those notebooks. He collected some estimated 10 to 15,000 names. Many of these have been entered into the IGI. (Joseph H. Carpenter is my RIN 49491.) After Joseph Hatten Carpenter's death on 10 Dec 1964, he was not quite 103 years old, his notebooks and records were given to various descendants. Some of these notebooks have been microfilmed and some have been lost. I have been lucky enough to photocopy some of these notebooks. The ones that I have contain names, dates and places where he got the data. While Joseph H. Carpenter did not make the association with Maurice in France and England to my knowledge, the data was there in his records. If you are interested in gathering more data on Joseph H. Carpenter see: BOOK: Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. A. Jenson History Company and Deseret News, 1901-36. Vol. 2. Carpenter, Joseph Hatten Page 561. (In this it describes Joseph and his brother George as ...) ... These two brothers are the representatives in the United States of the Somerset [p.563] County Carpenters of England, who were yeoman and lived since 1687 at Bradford-on-Tyne, near Taunton, Sommerset, and were a younger branch of the Hereford Carpenters, who lived at Dilwyn, Hereford, before 1300 A. D., and whose ancestor fought in the crusades for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Saracens and Turks, as their armorial bearings and crest will indicate. end note section. I hope this answers your question. Sincerely, John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA Bruce E. Carpenter wrote: > > John: > Excuse my ignorence, but who > was Joseph H. Carpenter? > Sincerely, > BC