(?-c. 1627)
GYLES CARTER, son of JOHN CARTER, rector of Alderton Parish Church and ?, born in Badgeworth.
GYLES CARTER married ELIZABETH. They had the following children: JOHN CARTER, Cecill Carter, Gyles Carter, Robert Carter and Elizabeth Carter. Source: Jim Gallman
1538
JOHN CARTER, father of GYLES CARTER, died at age 68.
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JOHN CARTER born in Lower Swell, Gloucestershire, which is directly to the West of Stow-on-the-Wold, between Cheltenham and Chipping Norton. JOHN CARTER is the son of GYLES CARTER and ELIZABETH. Source: Jim Gallman
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JOHN CARTER married MARY LAWRENCE, daughter of ROBERT LAWRENCE of SHIPTON SOLLARS and ELEANOR STRATFORD OF FARMECOTTE. They had the following children, GYLES CARTER, John Carter, William Carter, Anne Carter, Eleanor Carter, Mary Carter.
1574
GILES CARTER born, son of JOHN CARTER (son of GYLES OF BADGWORTH CARTER) and MARY LAURENCE (daughter of ROBERT OF SHIPTON LAURENCE). GILES (also seen as GYLES) was born in Lower Swell, Gloucestershire, which is directly to the West of Stow-on-the-Wold, between Cheltenham and Chipping Norton.
1616
[GILES CARTER] had been outlawed for murder in 1616 [FN74]. [FN74] E 178/3857 The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Gloucester, vol. Vi, Oxford University Press, London, 1965., p.167.
1620
September 18 Smyth of Nibley papers, Smyth 3 (80), p. 137. Document in New York Public Library (List of records No. 210)..Reference from Jim Gallman. WHB has converted to modern English spelling.
“To the Treasurer Counsel and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia. This is to certify that in the good ship called the Supply this present 18th day of September, 1620, were shipped from our Port of Bristol for plantation in Virginia at the charges of Richard Berkeley, George Thorpe, William Tracy and John Smith, esqs. under the conduct of the said William Tracy appointed Captain and Governor over them these 56 persons whose names ensue, who forthwith proceeded in their voyage accordingly: [WHB only 40 names were included in the excerpt.]
[alphabetized by WHB] Robert Baker; Thomas Baugh; John Bayly; Nicholas Came, gent.; GYLES CARTER; Richard Fereby, gent.; William Finch and Elizabeth, his wife and Francis, their son; John Gibbes; Isabell Gifford; Joane Greene; Francis Grevill; George Hale; Gabriel Holland; Richard Holland; John Holmeden, gent.; Richard Hopkins; John Howlett [Bowlet] the elder and John, his son; George Keene, gent.; Arthur Kemis, gent.; Thomas Kemis, gent.; John Linsey; Robert Longe, gent.; Arnold Oldisworth, esq.; John Page and Frances his wife; Robert Pawlet, divine; William Peird the elder; Richard Peirs; William Piffe; Thomas Shepy, gent.; William Tracy, esq., Mary Tracy, his wife, Thomas Tracy, their son and Joyce Tracy, their daughter; Elizabeth Webbe; Giles Wilkins.
1620/21
January 29 Smith of Nibley papers, Smyth 34 Document in New York Public Library. Authograph signed of George Yeardley and Jo. Pory, Secy., seal and stamp (double rose). List of records, 228.
“These are to certify the right Honorable, Right Worshipful, and others of the Counsel and Company for this first Southern Colony of Virginia, that there arrived at Berkeley in the same country, for the account of that society, and the Plantation to the said hundred, upon the 29th of January, 1620, these fifty persons underwritten. Vist. [alphabetized by WHB]
Robert Baker; Thomas Baugh; John Bayly; Giles Broadway; Nicholas Camme, gent.; GYLES CARTER; Joane Coopy; Antony Coopy; Elizabeth Coopy; Richard Dutton; Richard Fereby, gent.; William Finch and Elizabeth, his wife and Francis, their son*; John Gibbes; Isabell Gifford; Joane Greene; Francis Grevill; George Hale [or Hall]; Alice Heskins; Gabriel Holland; Richard Holland; John Holmeden, gent.; Richard Hopkins; John Howlett, the elder and John Howlett, his son and William Howlett, also his son; James Jelfe; George Keene, gent.; Arthur Kemis, gent.; Thomas Kemis, gent.; John Linsey (Roger Linzey?); Robert Longe, gent.; Richard Milton; Arnold Oldisworth, esq.; John Page and Frances his wife; Robert Pawlet, divine; William Peird the elder; Richard Peirs; William Piffe; Walter Prosser; Richard Rolles, Jane his wife and Benedict Rolles, their son; Thomas Shepy, gent.; William Tracy, esq., Mary Tracy, his wife, Thomas Tracy, their son and Joyce Tracy, their daughter; Philip Vrange; Elizabeth Webbe; Giles Wilkins.
1623
The Visitation of Gloucestershire 1623 shows the marriage of GILES CARTER and ELIZABETH TRACY, daughter of PAUL TRACY.
William G. H. Carter, GILES CARTER of Virginia, p. 103.
GILES CARTER and ELIZABETH TRACY had the following children: John Carter, Thomas Carter (1648- ?), Mary, GILES CARTER (c. 1634 – <1702), Elizabeth, Anne and William. (E-mail from Jim Gallman) [WHB – This is a contested fact.]
1627
JOHN [CARTER] died at Lower Swell in 1627, and was succeeded as lord of the manor by his son and heir GILES [FN73], who had been outlawed for murder in 1616 [FN74]. [FN73] Inq. P.m. Glos. 1625-42, i. 91-95. [FN74] E. 178/3857 The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Gloucester, vol. Vi, Oxford University Press, London, 1965., p.167.
Gloucestershire county records show that GILES CARTER ESQ. was the head of the family after the death of his father in 1627. William G. H. Carter, GILES CARTER of Virginia, p. 103.
GILES CARTER ESQ. was sequestered in the Great Rebellion and compounded for 968 pounds 17 shillings. The parish church is in the deanery of Stow and there is a handsome monument there to GILES CARTER, ESQ. From Iberian Home Page. Leona Ferrell Madsen, My Carter Ancestry.
See Sir Robert Atkyns, Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, London, 1712, pp. 227-228.
1638
GILES [CARTER] appears to have mortgaged the manor [of Lower Swell in Gloucestershire] to Sir William Courteen of London [FN75], into whose effective ownership the estate had passed by 1659, when, after Courteen’s death, it was sold to Sir Robert Atkyns [FN76], later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords. [FN75] Cal. S. P. Dom. 1637-8, 351; Glos. Colln., deed of 1640; Cal. Cttee. For Compounding, 1308. [FN76] Atkyns, Glos., 722.