Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Carter was born on 15 December 1836, in Pagham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edmund Carter, was 27 and his mother, Letsey Farrow, was 20. He married Dorothy. He died on 1 April 1881, at the age of 44.
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- Charles Carter in household of Edmund Carter, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Charles Carter, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Charles Carter, "England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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