Are the last names Carteret and Le Cartier and Carter all related?

I have done genealogy on my Father's side of the family and once you get to the 1300's it turns into Le Cartier, which is a Norman French noble family. I was curious if this information I asked about would help me find to which House I belong.|||Carter Name Meaning and History


1. English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, Middle English cartere, from an agent derivative of Middle English cart(e) or from Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, a derivative of Old French caret (see Cartier). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) 鈥榗art鈥? which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cr忙t, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably originally derived from Celtic.


2. Northern Irish: reduced form of McCarter.


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Cartier Surname


The name Cartier was originally an occupational name born by someone who worked as a transporter of goods. It is derived from the Anglo-Norman French word "caretier."


The many different spellings of French surnames can be partially explained by the use of local dialects and by the influence of other languages during the early development of the French language. As a result of these linguistic and cultural influences, the name Cartier is distinguished by a number of regional variations. The many spelling variations of the name include Cartier, Carti茅, Carti茅e, Cartiais, Cartiaie, Cartiey, Cartiay, Cartiet, Carthier, Cartiers, Cartyer, Cartyers, Kartier, Karti茅, Karti茅e, Kartiais, Kartiaie, Kartiey, Kartiay, Kartiet, Karthier, Kartiers, Kartyer, Kartyers, Carttier, Cartti茅, Cartti茅e, Carttiais, Carttiaie, Carttiey, Carttiay, Carttiet, Cartthier, Carttiers, Carttyer, Carttyers, Charretier, Carretier, Charreter and many more.


First found in Normandy, where this family has held a family seat since the ancient times. Read more at: http://www.houseofnames.com/Le+Cartier-f鈥?/a>





I think there is good evidence that these are indeed variants of the same name and going backward if records can be found it should lead to your goal|||Carter


This is an old ancient name, thought to be originally derived from the Celtic word "cairt" meaning "cart". It is an occupational surname for a transporter of goods, with an elaborate history and derivation. There are four sources for the word, from the Latin "carettarius", from "carrum"; from the Old Norman French "caretier", surviving in modern French surnames such as "cartier", from the Middle English (cart(e)", derived from the Old Norse "kartr" or the Olde English "craet" and finally from the Olde French "charetier", charioteer. All four of these sources have been merged to form the modern English surnames Carter and Charter. Nicholas le Carter appears in the Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls of 1273. On September 6th 1549, Edmond, son of James Carter was christened at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, London. The marriage of Elsabethe Carter and William Evans took place at St. Margaret's, Westminster, London on July 17th 1553, and Agnes Carter was christened at the same place in January 1556. One Robert Carter was a passenger on the "Mayflower", the ship that carried the Pilgrim Fathers to New England in 1620. A very early Coat of Arms granted to a Carter family depicts two gold lions rampant combatant on a black shield. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Rannulf le Caretier, which was dated 1192 - 1193, in the "Pipe Rolls of Huntingdonshire", during the reign of King Richard 1, known as "The Lionheart", 1189 - 1199. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.





Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/carter#鈥?/a>|||Most people with this name (white people) in the south claim "Scotch Irish" Plain truth is the majority are actually french (norman)