Descendants of William Carter

Compiled by  Arthur Holdford
updated 24 Aug 2007

Surnames included - ARCHER, ARNOLD, BARTON, BERYL, BUTTON, CARTER, CATLIN, COATES, COBB, EDMONS, FRENCH, GOODSHIP, HICKLING, HILLARD, HOLDFORD, JEFFRY, KING, MUNT, OLDS, PEACOCK, ROBINSON, ROLF, SARGENT, SHERMAN, SWAIN, TURFREY, TYLER, WASSELL, WHEELER, 

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FIRST GENERATION

1.  William CARTER was born on 11 Dec 1738.  He was baptized on 24 Dec 1738 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  He was a sawyer about 1773.  He received relief from parish on 30 Oct 1789.  He died about 1817.  He was buried on 16 May 1817 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  He was 81 years.  He was also known as William Carter Jr.  He was also known as Willem Carter.  He married Rebecca JEFFRY on 6 Sep 1764 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She received relief as working poor on 11 Feb 1818. She was buried on 21 Jun 1834 in St. Albans.  She was 101 years.  She was also known as Rebaccer Jeffries.  She was also known as Reabecka.  William CARTER and Rebecca JEFFRY had the following children:

                2                i.                Catherine CARTER was born on 13 Jul 1766.  She was baptized on 23 Nov 1766 in Wheathampstead Parish.  She was also known as Cathern Carter.
                +3                ii.                Susan CARTER.
                +4                iii.                William CARTER.
                +5                iv.                Jane CARTER.
                +6                v.                Sarah CARTER.

SECOND GENERATION

3.  Susan CARTER was born on 22 Aug 1768 in Wheathampstead Parish.  She was baptized on 25 Sep 1768 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She was also known as Susana.  She married William CATLIN.

4.  William CARTER was born on 9 Dec 1776 in Wheathampstead Parish.  He was baptized on 5 Jan 1777 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  He was a carpenter between 9 May 1813 and 6 Jun 1841 in Gustard Wood.  He received relief as laboring poor on 11 Feb 1818 in Wheathampstead Parish.  He voted in 1832 in Gustard Wood.  He was a carpenter Journeyman in Gustard Wood in 1851.  He died on 29 Nov 1857 in Union House, St. Albans.  He was 80. He was buried on 2 Dec 1857 in Wheathampstead Parish.  He was also known as William Carters.  He married Mary OLDS (daughter of John OLDS and Hannah) on 25 Feb 1800 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  Mary OLDS was born about 1780. She was a plaiter in Gustard Wood in 1841.  She died on 4 Mar 1848 in Wheathampstead Parish.  She was 69.  She was buried on 8 Mar 1848 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She was also known as Mary Olles.  She was also known as Mary Oles.  William CARTER and Mary OLDS had the following children:

                7                i.                Joseph CARTER was born on 1 Apr 1802.  He was baptized on 2 May 1802 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.
                8                ii.                Susan CARTER was born on 26 Jun 1803 in Gustard Wood.  She was baptized on 17 Jul 1803 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She died in Gustard Wood.  She was buried on 16 Nov 1826 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She was 23.  She was also known as Susannah Carter.
                9                iii.                Anna CARTER was born on 16 May 1805.  She was christened on 23 Jun 1805 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.
                +10                iv.                William CARTER.
                +11                v.                George CARTER.
                12                vi.                Sarah CARTER was born on 10 Sep 1815 in Gustard Wood.  She was baptized on 1 Oct 1815 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.
                +13                vii.                James CARTER.

5.  Jane CARTER was born on 29 Jul 1779.  She was baptized on 15 Aug 1779 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  She married James PEACOCK on 2 Nov 1792 at St. Helen’s Parish Church. 

6.  Sarah CARTER was born on 23 Jun 1781.  She was baptized on 16 Sep 1781 at St. Helen’s Parish.  Church.  She died after 1804.  She married James ARNOLD.

THIRD GENERATION

10.  William CARTER was born on 6 Dec 1807 in Gustard Wood.  He was baptized on 3 Jan 1808.  He was an agricultural laborer between 1841 and 1861 in Gustard Wood.  He died on 18 Feb 1872 in Gustard Wood.  He married Caroline.  Caroline was born about 1816 in Kimpton.  She was a straw plaiter in 1851 in Gustard Wood.  She was a Straw Plaiter in 1861 in Wheathampstead.  She was a plaiter in 1881 in Sandridge Parish.  She died on 4 Apr 1891 in Gustard Wood.  William CARTER and Caroline had the following children:

                +14                i.                Amelia CARTER.
                15                ii.                Ann Maria CARTER was christened on 29 Dec 1844.  She was a straw plaiter in the census in 1851 in Gustard Wood.  She was a Straw Plaiter in 1861 in Wheathampstead.
                16                iii.                Selina CARTER was christened on 7 Mar 1848.  She died before 1851.
                +17                iv.                Moses CARTER.

11.  George CARTER was baptized on 9 May 1813.  He was in Gustard Wood between 1814 and 1869.  He was a Sawyer on 2 Feb 1839. He lived on Cottage No. 228 on 26 Apr 1850 in Gustard Wood. He was an agricultural labourer between 1851 and 1869. He died on 28 Mar 1869 in Gustard Wood.  He married Mary COBB (daughter of Benjamin COBB and Susanna ROBINSON) on 2 Feb 1839.  Mary COBB was baptized on 20 Nov 1814 in Sandridge Parish.  She was a Plaiter on 2 Feb 1839.  She lived in Gustard Wood between 1851 and 1907.  She was the informant for the death of death of Mathew Munt on 22 Jan 1877.  She lived on house next door to Alfred King in Gustard Wood on 5 Apr 1891.  She died on 4 Aug 1907 in Gustard Wood.  George CARTER and Mary COBB had the following children:

                +18                i.                Caroline CARTER.
                +19                ii.                Sarah CARTER.
                +20                iii.                Mercy CARTER.
                +21                iv.                William CARTER.
                +22                v.                Henry CARTER.
                +23                vi.                Charles CARTER.

13.  James CARTER was born on 7 Jan 1823 in Gustard Wood.  He was baptized on 15 Jun 1823.  He was an agricultural labourer in Gustard Wood between 1841 and 1846.  He was on 26 Apr 1850 at Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead.  He was in the census in 1851 in Old Roson, Luton Road, St. Michaels in liberty of St. Albans. He died after 1851.  He married Eliza ROLF on 14 Feb 1846.  Eliza ROLF was born in 1826 in Kimpton.  She was a plaiter.

FOURTH GENERATION

14.  Amelia CARTER was born on 26 Aug 1841 and christened on 27 Feb 1842. She was a straw plaiter in Gustard Wood in 1851 and 1861.  She married Michael BARTON (son of James BARTON) on 23 Aug 1869.  He was a plumber in Gustard Wood.

17.  Moses CARTER was christened on 23 Sep 1849.  He was in the census in 1851 in Gustard Wood. He died on 22 Mar 1928 in New Marford.  He married Mary HILLARD (daughter of Thomas HILLARD) on 2 Jan 1875 in Kimpton Parish Church.

18.  Caroline CARTER was born on 27 May 1839.  She was baptized on 7 Jul 1839.  She was in the census in 1841 in Wheathampstead Parish.  She was a Straw-plaiter from 1851 to 1861 in Gustard Wood.  Caroline CARTER had the following children:

                24                i.                Emma CARTER was christened on 12 Jun 1859.  She was in Wheathampstead in the 1861 census.  She died after 1878.

19.  Sarah CARTER was christened on 21 Feb 1847.  She was a straw plaiter in Gustard Wood between 1851 and 1861.  She was a sewer in Gustard Wood in 1871.  She was a plaiter in The Folly in 1881.  She was in The Folly in the 1891 census.  She died on 24 Aug 1914 in Gustard Wood.  She married William SWAIN.  William SWAIN was born about 1840 in Kimpton.  He was a farm laborer in 1871 in Gustard Wood.  He died on 3 Jan 1914 in Gustard Wood.  Sarah CARTER and William SWAIN had the following children:

                +25                i.                Elizabeth SWAIN.
                26                ii.                Walter SWAIN was 5 in 1871 in Gustard Wood. He was a laborer in The Folly in 1881.  He died on 1 May 1949.
                27                iii.                John SWAIN was born about 1869 in Wheathampstead Parish.  He was 22, unmarried, and an employed agricultural laborer in The Folly on 5 Apr 1891.
                28                iv.                Kate SWAIN was 19 and unmarried in The Folly on 5 Apr 1891.
                29                v.                Alice SWAIN was born about 1874.  She was in The Folly in the 1881 census.
                30                vi.                Henry SWAIN was born about 1877 in Gustard Wood.  He was 14 and an agricultural laborer in The Folly on 5 Apr 1891.
                31                vii.                Mary Ann SWAIN was born about 1879.  She was in The Folly, Lower Luton Road in the 1891 census.
                32                viii.                Doriss? SWAIN was census in The Folly in the 1891.

20.  Mercy CARTER was born on 24 Jan 1847 in Gustard Wood. She died on 14 Dec 1918 in The Folly. She married Arthur MUNT (son of Matthew MUNT and Rebecca HALES/HALL) on 3 Nov 1866 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  Arthur MUNT was born on 20 Jun 1846 in Cherry Trees.  He died after 2 Apr 1871.  He was also known as Alfred.  Mercy CARTER and Arthur MUNT had the following children:

                +33                i.                Owen Edwin MUNT.
                +34                ii.                Lucy MUNT.

Mercy CARTER married David ARCHER on 28 Apr 1878.  David ARCHER was born about 1857 in Wheathampstead Parish.  He died in Union Workhouse, St. Albans on 25 Apr 1890.  Mercy CARTER and David ARCHER had the following children:

                35                i.                Sarah ARCHER was 11 years in The Folly in 1891.
                36                ii.                Charles ARCHER was in The Folly in 1932.
                37                iii.                Emily ARCHER was 7 years in The Folly on 5 Apr 1891.
                +38                iv.                Walter ARCHER.
                +39                v.                David ARCHER.

21.  William CARTER was christened on 5 May 1850.  He died in The Folly on 23 Feb 1924.  He married Francis Fanny GOODSHIP (daughter of William GOODSHIP and Fanny) on 2 Oct 1875.  She was born about 1854 in Kimpton.  She died in The Folly on 9 Apr 1925.  William CARTER and Francis Fanny GOODSHIP had the following children:

                40                i.                Henry Charles CARTER was christened on 30 Apr 1876.  He died before 1881.
                41                ii.                John CARTER was born about 1877 in Gustard Wood.  He was christened on 4 Nov 1877.  He was an agricultural laborer in The Folly in 1891.
                +42                iii.                Florence Mary CARTER.
                +43                iv.                Arthur William CARTER.
                44                v.                Katie Lilla CARTER was christened on 26 Apr 1885.  She was in The Folly in the 1891 census.
                45                vi.                Leonard CARTER was christened on 25 Sep 1887 in Wheathampstead.  He died before 1891.
                46                vii.                Percival CARTER was born about 1890 in The Folly.
                47                viii.                Cyril CARTER was an 18 year old ordinary seaman No. J/20486, Royal Navy.  He was killed on H. M. S. Bulwark on 26 Nov 1914.

22.  Henry CARTER was christened on 1 Feb 1853.  He was in Gustard Wood in the 1861 census.  He was in Cotmanhay, Derbyshire in 1881.

Eliza was 20 in Cotmanhay, Derbyshire in 1881.

23.  Charles CARTER was christened on 11 Jul 1858.  He was an agricultural laborer in Wheathampstead between 1871 and 1891. He was a licensee of Cricketers public house, Gustard Wood Common between 1895 and 1910.  He was a member of Wheathampstead Parish Council in 1906.  He lived in Gustard Wood between 1907 and 1932.  He was the informant for the death of death of his mother, Mary Cobb on 2 Aug 1907.  He died on 31 Oct 1932 and was buried on 4 Nov 1932 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  He married Lizzie/Elizabeth TYLER.  She was born about 1857 in Hitchin.  She died on 25 Nov 1929 in Gustard Wood.  Charles CARTER and Lizzie/Elizabeth TYLER had the following children:

                48                i.                Henry Alfred CARTER was christened on 24 Dec 1871.
                49                ii.                George CARTER was christened on 29 Mar 1874.
                50                iii.                Arthur James CARTER was christened on 26 Sep 1875.
                +51                iv.                Maude A. CARTER.
                52                v.                Mary/May or Elizabeth M CARTER was born in St. Albans.  She was 10 years in Gustard Wood on 5 Apr 1891.
                53                vi.                Frederick B CARTER was born in St Albans.  He was 8 years in Gustard Wood on 5 Apr 1891.

FIFTH GENERATION

25.  Elizabeth SWAIN was born about 1864 in Wheathampstead Parish.  She was a straw sewer in The Folly in 1881.  She married William WHEELER on 14 Mar 1885. 

33.  Owen Edwin MUNT was born about 1867 in Cherry Trees.  He was baptized on 28 Apr 1867.  He lived on The Folly between 1894 and 1903.  He was a painter in Batford, Wheathampstead on 25 Mar 1919.  He lived on Glenfield in Batford Road, Harpenden in 1932.  He died on 9 Dec 1945.  He married Sarah EDMONS on 15 Sep 1894.  Sarah EDMONS was born about 1875.  She was the informant for the death of death of Mercy Carter in The Folly on 14 Dec 1918.  She died on 5 Aug 1945. Owen Edwin MUNT and Sarah EDMONS had the following children:

                54                i.                Rose Emma MUNT baptized on 23 Feb 1896.
                +55                ii.                Ethel Elizabeth May MUNT.
                56                iii.                Arthur William MUNT was born about 1899 in Gustard Wood.  He was baptized on 26 Mar 1899.  He died on 96 Lower Luton Road on 8 Oct 1948.
                57                iv.                Albert Edwin MUNT was baptized on 29 Nov 1903.
                58                v.                Douglas Charles MUNT baptized on 25 Oct 1908.

34.  Lucy MUNT was born on 28 Nov 1868 at Cherry Trees.  She died on 8 Oct 1927 in Gustard Wood.  She was buried on 11 Oct 1927.  She married Alfred KING (son of William KING and Mary FRENCH) on 9 Jan 1887.  He died on 10 Mar 1940 at Oster House, St. Albans.  Lucy MUNT and Alfred KING had the following children:

                59                i.                Alfred William KING was baptized on 29 May 1887.  He was a private, #18814 in 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in 1915.  He was in Neuve Chapelle, Belgium from Mar 1915 to Apr 1915.  He died on 8 May 1915 in Flanders, Belgium.  He was buried in Godezonne Farm Cemetery, Kemmel, Leper, West Valaanderen, Belgium.
                +60                ii.                Frederick KING.
                61                iii.                Lucy KING was baptized on 27 Jul 1890.  She died about 1948 in Gustard Wood. 
                62                iv.                Charles John KING died in 1891 in Gustard Wood.
                +63                v.                Mary Ellen KING.
                +64                vi.                Albert Edward KING.
                +65                vii.                Ernest Charles KING.
                66                viii.                Sidney George KING was born about 1908 in Gustard Wood.  He died in Gustard Wood about 1922.
                +67                ix.                Bertram KING.

38.  Walter ARCHER was born in Gustard Wood and christened in 1885.  He died on 2 Sep 1930.

Ellen BERYL.

39.  David ARCHER was born on 25 May 1890 in The Folly.  He died on 9 Sep 1967.  Violet Ellen was in The Folly in 1932. She died on 1 May 1959.  David ARCHER and Violet Ellen had the following children:

                68                i.                Joyce Lillian May ARCHER was born on 2 Mar 1924 in The Folly.
                69                ii.                Pearl Doreen ARCHER was born on 3 Jun 1930 in The Folly.

42.  Florence Mary CARTER was christened on 28 Dec 1879.  She was a domestic servant at Major-GeneralApsley Cherry Garard's Lamer Park, Wheathampstead in 1907.  She died in Jul 1954.  She married John Joseph SARGENT in 1907 in Balham, S.E. London.  He was a groom at Major-GeneralApsley Cherry Garard's Lamer Park in 1907.  He died in 1939.  Florence Mary CARTER and John Joseph SARGENT had the following children:

                +70                i.                Joan Ursula SARGENT.

43.  Arthur William CARTER was born about 1882 in The Folly.  He died about 1938 in The Folly.  He married Winifred May.

51.  Maude A. CARTER was born about 1880 in St. Peter's, St Albans.  She was 11 years in Gustard Wood on 5 Apr 1891.  She died on 15 Oct 1968.  She married GOODSHIP.

SIXTH GENERATION

55.  Ethel Elizabeth May MUNT was born about 1897 in The Folly.  She lived on 96 Lower Luton Road in Batford, Wheathampstead about 1962.  She died in 1991.  She married Conrad David WASSELL on 25 Mar 1919. 

60.  Frederick KING was born in Gustard Wood about 1888.  He lived on 28 Station Approach, Ridgemont Road, St. Albans in 1940.  He died after 1969.  He married Ada.  She died after 1962.  Frederick KING and Ada had the following child:

                +71                i.                Winifred B. KING.

63.  Mary Ellen KING was born on 1 Sep 1896 in Gustard Wood.  She was a pupil teacher at Gustard Wood National School (branch) about 1908.  She caddied at Gustard Wood Gulf Course about 1910.  She was a domestic servant on 1 Sep 1910 in Ashwell House, Verulam Road, St. Albans.  She immigrated on 11 Sep 1920 to United States.  She died on 21 Aug 1970 in Youngstown, Ohio.    She married Willie HOLDFORD (son of William Thomas George HOLDFORD and Fanny Eliza SHERMAN) on 3 Jul 1920 at St. Helen’s Parish Church.  He died on 15 May 1987 in Ohio.    Mary Ellen KING and Willie HOLDFORD had the following children:

                +72                i.                Albert William HOLDFORD.
                +73                ii.                Arthur Alfred HOLDFORD.

64.  Albert Edward KING was born about 1902 in Gustard Wood.  He was a laborer in Gustard Wood between 1925 and 1935.  He lived on Old Reasons Farm on 22 Mar 1925.  He lived on Bracey's Cottage in Gustard Wood on 4 Jul 1927.  He lived on Pretoria Cottages, near the Tin Pot in Gustard Wood in 1932.  He was on Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead in 1940.  He lived on 40 Brewhouse Hill in Wheathampstead on 8 Dec 1951.  He lived on Flat 59, Hall Gardens in Colney Heath, St Albans between 1962 and 1970.  He married Kathleen Francis BUTTON (daughter of George Henry BUTTON and Agnes TURFREY) on 19 Apr 1924.  Kathleen Francis BUTTON was born about 1917.  She died in 1945.    Albert Edward KING and Kathleen Francis BUTTON had the following children:

                +74                i.                Norah Mary KING.
                +75                ii.                Archibald James KING.
                76                iii.                Barbara Lucy KING was born on 2 Jun 1929 in Gustard Wood.    She died about 1930.
                +77                iv.                Alfred KING.

65.  Ernest Charles KING was born about 1905 in Gustard Wood.  He died on 25 Mar 1956 in Kimpton.  He married Maud COATES (daughter of William COATES and Louisa). 

67.  Bertram KING was born about 1910 in Gustard Wood.   He married Mabel.  She was also known as Emily.

70.  Joan Ursula SARGENT was born on 16 Jun 1923.   She married Derek Ronald HICKLING.  Joan Ursula SARGENT and Derek Ronald HICKLING had the following child:

                +82                i.                Sandra Julia HICKLING.

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