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From: "DORSEY" <>
Subject: Sidney CARTER
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:49:01 +1200
In-Reply-To: <PIEIIKIDMCGACGCANIGCIEEEELAA.steve.odell@dsl.pipex.com>

I have had a quick look for you Steve and came up with the following.
You will need to purchase the certs for proof of course but this may
give you something to go on. It would appear Sidney's mother died after
the birth of her last baby Ethel and then his Father remarried very soon
after. I don't know this people at all, no connection to me, but knowing
the area they lived in from my own research I thought I could put
something together. Sidney was born in 1882, if in 1883 then his birth
was not registered that quarter.

Lillian Dorsey

GRO index

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
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Births Mar 1880
Carter Heather Walter Wisbeach 3b 825
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Births Mar 1882
Carter Sidney Wisbeach 3b 593
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Births Mar 1884
Carter Harriet Maud Wisbech 3b 612
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Births Sep 1885
Carter Arthur James Wisbech 3b 595
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Births Sep 1889
Carter Ethel Wisbech 3b 593
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Deaths Dec 1890
Carter Rachel 36 Wisbech 3b 397
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Marriages Dec 1891
Carter James Wisbech 3b 1401
Green Susan Wisbeach 3b 1401
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Marriages Jun 1908
CARTER Sydney Wisbech 3b 1245
GOODGE Eliza Jane H Wisbech 3b 1245
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1881 census
Census Place Terrington St John, Norfolk, England
Family History Library Film 1341405
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1698 / 123
Page Number 2
James CARTER Head Mar 26 Engine Driver (Threshg)
(Attendant) Friday Bridge, Cambridge, England
Rachel CARTER Wife Mar 25 Engine Drivers Wife
Terr St John, Norfolk, England
Hether W. CARTER Son 1
Terr St John, Norfolk, England

1891 census
Terrington St John
Ecclesiastical parish: Terrington St John
Town: Terrington St John
County/Island: Norfolk
Source information: RG12/1307
Registration district: Wisbech
Sub registration district: Terrington St Clement
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Folio: 110 Page: 16
GSU Number: 6096417
New Sibley Field
James CARTER HeadWidower37 Proprietor of Steam Threshing
EngineFriday Bridge, Cambridgeshire
Btha W CARTER Son10 Scholar
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Sidney CARTER Son9 Scholar
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Harriet M CARTER Dau5 Scholar
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Arthur J CARTER Son5 Scholar
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Ethal CARTER Dau1
Terrington St John, Norfolk

1901 census
Terrington St John
Ecclesiatical parish: Terrington St John
Town: Terrington St John
County/Island: Norfolk
Source information: RG13/1558
Registration district: Wisbech
Sub-registration district: Terrington St Clement
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Folio: 111 Page: 21
Household schedule number: 125
Fen End
John H BREEZEBoarder Unmar18 Roadman Labourer
Terrington St Clement, Norfolk
Sydney CARTERBoarder Unmar19
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Sarah CHILDESWifeMar36Horseman on Farm
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
William CHILDSHeadMar40 Horseman on Farm
Terrington St John, Norfolk

1901 census
Terrington St John
Ecclesiatical parish: Terrington St John
Town: Terrington St John
County/Island: Norfolk
Source information: RG13/1558
Registration district: Wisbech
Sub-registration district: Terrington St Clement
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Folio: 110 Page: 19
Household schedule number: 111
James CARTER HeadMar45 Machiner (Employer)
Friday Bridge, Cambridgeshire
Susan CARTER WifeMar55
Walpole St Andrew, Norfolk
Thomas H GREEN Stepson27 Grocer
Leverington, Cambridgeshire
Heather W CARTER Son21 Engine Driver Threshing
MachineTilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Julia GREEN Stepdau19
Leverington, Cambridgeshire
Harriet M CARTER Dau17 Palourmaid Domestic
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Arthur J CARTER Son15 Machinist Domestic
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Ada CARTER Dau13
Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk
Ethel CARTER Dau11
Terrington St John, Norfolk



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Odell [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 12 June 2005 9:35 p.m.
To:
Subject: [WISBECH] Sidney CARTER (born 8-2-1883)


Could SKS help me with a CARTER family enquiry? My first on this group.

My grandfather on my mother's side was Sidney (Sid) Carter born 8
February 1883 in Wisbech. He rarely spoke of his parents or of Wisbech
so I would like to learn any basic details about his parents, any
immediate family, and where in Wisbech the family lived. The only other
pieces of information to hand is that Sidney married Eliza Jane Hanslip
GOODGE of Littleport at Terrington St John, Norfolk (date not known) and
their first child Dorothy CARTER (my Aunt Dorothy) was born at
Terrington on 6 May 1909. By 1916 the family were living in London.

I'm sure that any self-respecting genealogist could polish off several
CARTER generations before elevenses but I'm not a genealogist and I'm
just beginning to feel my way in unfamiliar territory. My Mother is the
only surviving child of Sid and Eliza. She is in her eighties and I
think she is having a little late life curiosity. This enquiry is really
for her.

I have no information about my great-grandparents or their siblings
(this is part of the mystery). My mother remembers that remarkably
little was said about her Father's family other than he had came to
London with Eliza against his/her (?) family's wishes (some time after
1909) and that some kind of family rift (may have) ensued.

I do have over 50 pages of a huge family tree on the Littleport GOODGE's
courtesy of Richard Creak (me and the kids are on it down near the
bottom), so Eliza is not the problem. It's the elusive Sidney and his
parents we would like to find.

I would appreciate any information.

Steve Odell



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