Carter

Carter family page

Mary Magdeleine Carter, nee Brunet

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Carter family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Carter, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

This is an occupational surname, probably derived from the Celtic word cairt, meaning 'cart'. It probably reached English via the Norman French caretier, which survives as Cartier in modern French surnames, but is not found in Jersey.

Early records

Carter goes back to 1668 in Jersey church records, and although it is not possible to trace a direct line from the early 18th century records to this day, it is possible that the early family has survived. There have, of course, been other Carter immigrants over the course of time.

Family records

Family trees

• Benjamin Carter: 18th-20th centuries
• James Carter: 17th-19th centuries
• George Carter: 19th-20th centuries
• Thomas Carter: 19th-20th centuries

Church records

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• Carter baptisms in Jersey
• Carter marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Carter marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Carter burials in Jersey

Newspaper records

• Young Harcourt Carter performs a brave sea rescue in 1848

Great War service

• Carter family members who served in World War 1
• Presentation to Ambrose Archibald Carter, MM, an ambulance driver, at the Town Hall

Occupation records

• Carter Occupation identity cards

World War 2 casualties

• Ronald Helier Carter

Family wills

• Carter family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Carter burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

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  1935
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  1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
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  1859
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  1935 advert in the Jersey Leader

Family album

Gladys Maude Carter, born in St Helier in 1887

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  George Vaudin Welch and Elizabeth Ann, nee Carter
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  Mary Ann Carter
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  George James Carter
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  A J Carter played for Jersey Wanderers in 1908
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  Gladys Maud Carter, who married Rupert Grenville Grant in 1911
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  Master's Certificate of Charles John Carter, born in St Helier in 1876. He joined the Royal Navy in 1893 and 20 years later, after emigrating to Sydney, he joined the Royal Australian Navy. He married Jessie Convin at Marrickville, NSW, in 1913 and they had three daughters, Mary Ellen, Emily May and Iris Lillian

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  Jessie Carter, nee Convin
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  Mary Ellen Carter
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  Emily May Carter
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  Iris Lillian Carter
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  Ambulance driver Ambrose Carter was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery in the Great War

Family gravestones

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  St Lawrence
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  Alfred Henry Carter, Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Dorset
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  Clarence Carter, Wancourt British Cemetery

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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