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Offline LesleyAS

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What did a Carter do?
« on: Thursday 14 April 05 18:31 BST (UK) »
What would someone who was an apprentice carter or Carter do in about 1924 please?

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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 14 April 05 18:37 BST (UK) »
A carter traditionally trasnported goods. Maybe he/she drove a van or car carrying goods?
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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 14 April 05 18:43 BST (UK) »
Traditionally a Carter was a Waggoner, later from the proffesion carrier a Carter was a driver of Waggons usually goods only
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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 16 April 05 13:08 BST (UK) »
There is a very strong chance that he was working as a carter for a railway as he mentions apprenticeship.  Did he live in the vicinity of a large station?  I have quite alot of information about railway horses and the men who worked with them.  Let me know if you are interested.

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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 16 April 05 13:55 BST (UK) »
My grandfather lived in Bootle Liverpool and my mother thought he may have worked on the docks. I would be grateful for any information you have.
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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 16 April 05 17:03 BST (UK) »
Almost certainly a carter at the docks then.  They carried on using the big horses and carts to deliver and collect the merchandise arriving at the docks for many years. 

My pictures are of railway horses etc. but you might like to look at a site about port cities which has all sorts of information about the docks.  If you put "carter" in search it brings up a few photos, letters etc. - (as well as information about people called Carter of course).  Log on to www.mersey-gateway.org/

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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 16 April 05 17:26 BST (UK) »

Everyone seems to have Lesley's 'Carter' sorted out. 

However I think you do have to look at where the person worked or lived - I have two Carters- they never left the farms they were born on! so mine were Agricultural.
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Sussex - Knapp. Nailard. Potten. Coleman. Pomfrey. Carter. Picknell
Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 16 April 05 19:55 BST (UK) »
Many thanks to you all. Have a lovely picture of what my grandfather might have looked like on the docks now.

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Re: What did a Carter do?
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 15 April 25 09:35 BST (UK) »
I have found an ancestor who in 1939 was shown in the census as being a carter for the County Council. That suggests to me that he had regular work for the County Council since it was specifically mentioned in the census. I'm adding it here as it might help others, by indicating that the job of carter was still in existence in Cornwall in 1939.
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