When Julia Myrtle Carter was born in 1911, in Oxford, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Arthur Thomas Carter, was 28 and her mother, Clara E. Dobson, was 24. She married Daniel Alexander Sanford on 2 March 1938. She died on 13 May 1985, in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 74.
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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