Carter
Notes made by P. Northeast and retained by Ena Carter relating to payments distributed by John Carter and others. John Carter was churchwarden in the late 17th century. The cause for hardship was given as small pox.
Between 1809 and 1819 Henry Carter and Widow Carter were occupiers of Crown Farm. In 1818 Mrs Carter (widow) put the farmhouse with 100a 0r 14p, and in a separate lot an adjoining cottage that was in the occupation of John Robinson up for auction. The Carter’s then left Stowupland, returning in 1850, but this time to Green Farm.
Mary Carter – married Bailey Webb of Combs in 1821, her sister Sarah had a school in Ipswich Street, Stowmarket.
– her brother Thomas married Elizabeth Pelgrem and moved into Green Farm in 1850
Thomas & Elizabeth’s son was Thomas Edgar Carter, he married Mary Jane Heyward of Stowmarket and they had 4 children: Mary, Thomas, George and John (he died yong)
1851 Census – Thos Carter aged 43 a farmer of Thorney Green – 110 acres employing 12 men.
This photo shows a butter making class that was held at Grange Farm in 1890. The lady at the front is Mary J. Carter
Kellys 1912 Thomas Edgar Carter – Farmer, poor rate collector, clerk to the parish council and clerk to the rural authority for the cemetery
Kellys 1916: Geo Carter Green Farm.
George was also clerk to the Rural Authourity for the cemetery.
Thos Carter Gipping Farm
(also named in Kelly’s 1912)
Thomas Carter from a private family archive.
Thomas’ family home was Gipping farm but when he had the chance to take on the tenancy of Stowupland Hall he moved there as tenant before taken over the estate on the death of Henry Fairfax Harwood in 1927.
Thomas’ second wife May (b 28/5/1893) was related to Ena Carter
In 1936 Ena Harrison married Jack (John Phillip) Carter, son of Thos Carter and they moved into Gipping Farm. See Ena Carter
