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. ...
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