John Carpenter

     John departed this life in Kingston Upon Hull.¹ John was born in 1814 in Kenysham, Somersetshire, England. John married Dinah Colton, daughter of William Bethel Colton and Sarah Bingham, between April 1849 and June 1849 in Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, at the Parish of the Holy Trinity.² John & Dinah lived in Kingston Upon Hull. When they were first married, John was a member of the military. Later, John worked on the docks. John and his wife, Dinah, were listed on the 1861 English census living in Kingston Upon Hull on Williams Street. Enumerated in this household were John Carpenter [47 Kenysham, Somersetshire, England], Dinah [30 Brigg, Lincolnshire, England]. John is a dock laborer.³