His father Charles (3 January 1757 – 5 September 1803) was a naval officer of rank who married on 19 May 1785 the only daughter of Thomas Mackenzie, Esq.

[2] John and Sarah had only one child, a daughter named Elizabeth Anne Carpenter who was born and died on 19 February 1847.

[2] Kiplin Hall passed to a cousin, Walter Cecil Talbot, second son of the Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, who changed his surname to Carpenter as a condition of the will.

From 1887 to 1904 Royal Navy Admiral Walter Talbot now surnamed Carpenter lived at Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.

Sir Noel Paton, upon painting the family arms, informed him that the supporters were originally a round-handled sword, which in drawing over time became shortened, until nothing but the cross and globe were left beneath it.

surmounted by a mitre Or, three cross crosslets of—nine pales alternating red and blue, with a silver chevron bearing three gold cross-crosslets.