When Walter Duncan Carter was born on 27 August 1929, in Strang, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Jack Wilburn Carter, was 22 and his mother, Sallie Ellen West, was 22. He married Charlotte Marilyn Bissing on 20 April 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 1 November 2000, in Langley, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71.
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’.
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