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| Surname origins | Occupation Derived from the occupation of an ancestor |
| Meaning | i)
Maker or driver of carts or ii) 'Charioteer' |
| Geographic origins | i) In 1853 the 50th most common name in England and Wales |
| Language | i)
Old English or ii) Old French |
| Sources | i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| My
line of the Carter family were connected to the Hampshire village
of Hawkley in the 17th and 18th centuries and it was in the village
that my 3x great grandmother Dinah Carter - a shopkeeper - was born
in 1785. In 1813 she married Thomas Heighes, an agricultural labourer from the neighbouring village of Empshott. They had 4 (known) children. |
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| Links | Carter
message board
on Genealogy.com Carter message board on Ancestry.co.uk |
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