There is some question as to who the parents of Robert Carver are. In The Carver Family of New England, 1935, p. 23 it states: "in one of the Leyden records, Robert Carver is referred to as the grandson of Katharine Carver (the wife of James Carver and mother of Isaac and John). n the Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, compiled by Little, the statement is made that Isaac Carver, father of Robert and brother of John died at Leyden." it continues this on ib. pp. 45-47: "In Little's Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (vol. 4, p. 1929) it is stated that Robert Carver was a son of Isaac Carver, who was said to have been a brother of Gov. John Carver and a son of James Carver of Lincolnshire; but the late Col. Charles Edward Banks, in his English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (p. 44), identified Gov. John Carver with a John, son of Robert Carver, who was baptized at Doncaster, co. York, September 9, 1565 [sic. ? 1564]. In the Register [NEGHR], vol. 67, p. 382 (October, 1913), the two following baptismal records, to which attention was directed by Mr. William Prescott Greenlaw, then Librarian and now Librarian Emeritus of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, were printed: '1564 Sept 9 John, s. of Robert Caruer.' '1567 M’ch 27 Willm, s. of Robte Caruer.' These two entries, copied from the parish registers of Doncaster, co. York, were found in a manuscript volume in the Library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (one of the volumes of the Somerby Manuscript), which contains extracts from various English parish registers." The last quoted article does not make any assertions, but simply states that they: "may be of some importance to those searching for the ancestry of Governor Carver." As far as I am aware, there is nothing, besides presumption, that would indicate that Robert Carver's origins.