Background
Joan Carlile was born as Joan Palmer, the daughter of William Palmer, an official in the Royal Parks.
Joan Carlile was born as Joan Palmer, the daughter of William Palmer, an official in the Royal Parks.
Carlile copied the works of Italian masters and reproduced them in miniature. The couple moved to Covent Garden in 1654 but returned to Petersham two years later after the restoration of the monarchy, when Lodowick was given the post of "Keeper of the house or Lodge and the Walk at Petersham". They returned to London in 1665.
Lodowick died in 1675 and was buried in the churchyard of Petersham Parish Church (which was then in Surrey and is now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames).
They had two children, James (who was married to Ellen. They had two sons, James and Lodowick) and Penelope (married to John Fisher, a lawyer of the Middle Temple).