This page tells the story of one of my wife's paternal ancestral lines, the Cartners.
The family name originates from the same German source as the word gardener, however originally it referred to a market gardener which was someone who grew food on a small patch of land. So far I have found the following variants of the name; Cartner, Gaertner, Gartner, Kartner, Cartener, McCartner, McCartener and McCarton.
Looking at the parish registers from the 1600s shows only 10 Cartners, all of which were in the Northern English county of Cumberland bordering Scotland. 6 were in Rockcliffe in the ward of Longtown & Rockcliffe, north of the city of Carlisle and just south of the Scottish parish of Gretna Green. 3 more Cartners were found in the nearby Cumberland village of Beaumont and one just south of Carlisle in the village of Dalston.
Between 1700 and 1750 the number of births on parish registers jumps to 72. Of these the vast majority, 69, were born in Cumberland. The largest collection of Cartners, 44, were once again found in Rockcliffe with another 9 in the nearby Carlisle parish of Stanwix and 16 spread evenly among 6 other Cumberland parishes.
In the 1841 English census there were 156 Cartners. Of these 98 were born in Cumberland with a smatter spread around the surrounding counties. 25 more were on the Scottish census for the same year, the majority of which were just across the border in the nearby Scottish counties.
My wife’s 4 x Great Grandfather Thomas Cartner was born sometime around 1786 in England (county not known). Not much is known about his earlier life but he married Jane Armstrong and by the 1820s moved to Annan, Dumfriesshire in South West Scotland near the border with England. There he worked as a grocer and had at least two children, one of which was William W. Cartner, my wife’s 3 x Great Grandfather.
William was born around 1841 in Canonbie, Dumfriesshire. He first appears on the census around 1861 across the Scottish/English border in at Newlands Gate, Longtown in Cumberland where he worked as a farm servant. He met local born Margaret Kerr and in 1863 they married back in Dumfriesshire. The following decades the couple moved back and forward across the border between Dumfriesshire and Cumberland and had 10 children including my wife’s 2 x Great Grandfather, James.
James was born in Half Morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1864. When his parents returned to his mother’s home county of Cumberland he stayed. Initially he worked as a farm servant in the Cumberland town of Moorhouse, a short distance from the city of Carlisle. Later he moved to nearby Longtown (where he had lived as a child) where he worked as a railway worker. He married Margaret Wood and had four children, one of which was Henry “Harry” Wood Cartner, my wife's Great Grandfather.
Harry was born in 1897 in Longtown. In the beginning he followed his father and worked on the railway. After the First and Second World Wars he retrained and became a mental health nurse and later an asylum attendant. He was qualified by the organisation that would later become the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He married Ellen Shingleton and had two children, one of which was my wife's Grandmother.
When Harry died Ellen, my wife's Grandmother and my wife's Great Aunt moved to Cornwall.
The family name originates from the same German source as the word gardener, however originally it referred to a market gardener which was someone who grew food on a small patch of land. So far I have found the following variants of the name; Cartner, Gaertner, Gartner, Kartner, Cartener, McCartner, McCartener and McCarton.
Looking at the parish registers from the 1600s shows only 10 Cartners, all of which were in the Northern English county of Cumberland bordering Scotland. 6 were in Rockcliffe in the ward of Longtown & Rockcliffe, north of the city of Carlisle and just south of the Scottish parish of Gretna Green. 3 more Cartners were found in the nearby Cumberland village of Beaumont and one just south of Carlisle in the village of Dalston.
Between 1700 and 1750 the number of births on parish registers jumps to 72. Of these the vast majority, 69, were born in Cumberland. The largest collection of Cartners, 44, were once again found in Rockcliffe with another 9 in the nearby Carlisle parish of Stanwix and 16 spread evenly among 6 other Cumberland parishes.
In the 1841 English census there were 156 Cartners. Of these 98 were born in Cumberland with a smatter spread around the surrounding counties. 25 more were on the Scottish census for the same year, the majority of which were just across the border in the nearby Scottish counties.
The family in Northern England
William was born around 1841 in Canonbie, Dumfriesshire. He first appears on the census around 1861 across the Scottish/English border in at Newlands Gate, Longtown in Cumberland where he worked as a farm servant. He met local born Margaret Kerr and in 1863 they married back in Dumfriesshire. The following decades the couple moved back and forward across the border between Dumfriesshire and Cumberland and had 10 children including my wife’s 2 x Great Grandfather, James.
James was born in Half Morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1864. When his parents returned to his mother’s home county of Cumberland he stayed. Initially he worked as a farm servant in the Cumberland town of Moorhouse, a short distance from the city of Carlisle. Later he moved to nearby Longtown (where he had lived as a child) where he worked as a railway worker. He married Margaret Wood and had four children, one of which was Henry “Harry” Wood Cartner, my wife's Great Grandfather.
Harry was born in 1897 in Longtown. In the beginning he followed his father and worked on the railway. After the First and Second World Wars he retrained and became a mental health nurse and later an asylum attendant. He was qualified by the organisation that would later become the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He married Ellen Shingleton and had two children, one of which was my wife's Grandmother.
When Harry died Ellen, my wife's Grandmother and my wife's Great Aunt moved to Cornwall.
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