Sometimes an historical event of a person who
shares the same surnames as our ancestors,
can lead one to ask, “Was he in my Family Lineage?”
Such was the case with an explorer Philip
Carteret. From Wikipedia his story can
be told, however it comes very short on his family history.
Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity (22 January 1733, Trinity Manor, Jersey – 21 July 1796, Southampton) was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and
1766–69.
Biography
Carteret entered the navy in 1747, serving aboard
the Salisbury, and then under Captain John Byron from 1751 to 1755. Between 1757 and 1758 he was in the Guernsey on the Mediterranean Station. As a lieutenant in the Dolphin he accompanied Byron during his
voyage of circumnavigation, from June 1764 to May 1766.
In 1766 he was made a commander and given the
command of HMS Swallow to circumnavigate the world, as consort
to the Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Carteret discovering Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands, which were subsequently named after him. In 1767, he also discovered a
new archipelago inside Saint George's Channel between New Ireland and New Britain Islands (Papua New Guinea) and named it Duke of York Islands, as well as rediscovered
the Solomon Islands first sighted by the Spaniard Álvaro de Mendaña in 1568, and
the Juan Fernández Islands first discovered by Juan Fernández in 1574. Weakened by
severe illness, he arrived back in England, at Spithead, on 20 March 1769, having been ably assisted by Lieutenant Erasmus Gower who was, for much of the voyage, the only fit person on
board Swallow who could navigate.
The following year he returned to Jersey as
seigneur of Trinity and took part in Jersey politics. He was promoted to post captain in
1771 and was in London on 5 May 1772, when he married Mary Rachel Silvester
(1741–1815), a doctor's daughter. Four of their five children survived to
adulthood, including:
·
the second son, Philip Carteret Silvester (1777–1828), entered the navy
like his father and inherited a baronetcy from his maternal uncle Sir John Silvester
·
a daughter, Elizabeth Mary (1774 – 21 September 1851, Yarmouth), in 1818 became the third wife
of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy.
Carteret's health was ruined by his voyage of
exploration, and he received little reward from the Admiralty. He did not have
the patrons which were necessary for naval promotion at this time, and this and
his complaints before the voyage on the Swallow's ill-suitedness to
the voyage ensured that his requests for a new ship in 1769 fell on deaf ears.
Put on half-pay, the petition for increasing half-pay which he got together helped many
officers, but not Carteret himself.
In the
meantime, in 1773, his journals of the voyage were published as part of An
Account of the Voyages undertaken by Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook, but
that volume's editor John Hawkesworth made many changes to his
account and so Carteret drafted a correct version of his own (which, however,
only got published in 1965, by the Hakluyt Society.
His new ship, HMS Endymion, at last
came on 1 August 1779 and despite problems in the Channel, off Senegal and off the Leeward Islands (at the last of which Carteret was nearly killed in a hurricane)
he arrived in the West Indies as instructed. Despite having a share in four prize ships, he was paid off and the Endymion transferred to
another captain. All his petitions for a new ship were unsuccessful and he
suffered a stroke in 1792, retiring to Southampton in 1794 with the rank of rear admiral. He died there two years later and
was buried in the catacombs of All Saints' Church, Southampton. In 1940 the church was destroyed by
German bombing. In 1944 the bodies beneath it were reburied in Hollybrook Cemetery in Southampton.
Without a doubt the de Carteret family history is
quite incredible, and very interwoven with other families who resided in
Jersey.
The de Carteret family can be linked to the
Companions of William the Conquerer.
They lived in France, and were part of his crusade.
The de
Carteret family was perhaps the greatest of the patrician families of
the Channel Islands.
There influence on the Island would last from the 10th century until the
present time.
The family
originated from Normandy where their ancestor Guy de
Carteret would be the first Lord of the Barony of Carteret in Normandy. The
family would side with William
the Conqueror in
the Norman
conquest. Years
later Renaud de Carteret I would
return from First
Crusade and take
the parish of St Ouen by force, establishing the
families presence in the Channel Islands.
A descendant
of Renaud de Carteret I named Hellier de Carteret colonised
the island of Sark and would become the first of
the Seigneurs of Sark.
At the time of the restoration, some became Barons Carteret and were granted lands in
the Carolinas and in what eventually became the
state of New Jersey. Others Carterets would become
the Earls of
Granville.
Their
ancestral seat is Saint
Ouen's Manor, Jersey, still today owned by persons of that name.
Philip de Carteret was the son of Charles de Carteret 1684 and
Frances Mary St Paul c 1701
Charles was the son of Charles de Carteret 1669 –
1712 and Elizabeth le Couteur 1667 – 1698
This Charles had a sister Dame Elizabeth de
Carteret 1663 – 1717 who married her cousin, Sir Phillip de Carteret 1650 –
1693. They also had a son called Sir
Charles de Carteret 1679 – 1715. He had no heirs, and this line then died out. They have memorials in Westminster Abbey.
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/carteret-family
In the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a monument to Dame
Elizabeth Carteret. The inscription reads:
Near this place lyeth buried DAME ELIZABETH CARTERET daughter of Sr.
EDWARD CARTERET, Knt. [Knight], Gent. Usher of ye Black Rod in the reign of K.
Charles the Second Relict [widow] of Sr. PHILIP CARTERET Bart. [Baronet] and by
him mother of Sr. CHARLES CARTERET Bart. her only son, interred likewise near
this place by whose decease June ye 6th A.D. 1715 in ye 34th year of his age,
was extinguished the eldest branch of the antient family of the name of
Carteret Seigneurs of St. Ouen in ye Island of Jersey. She died March ye 26th
A.D. 1717 aged 52 years.
Her monument originally consisted of her figure ascending from a
sarcophagus extending a hand to an angel. In an arch a group
She was the daughter of Edward de Carteret and Elizabeth Johnson. Her
brother was Sir Charles de Carteret 1667 – 1719 who married Mary Ann Fairfax
Sir Charles Carteret
Family and
Education
bap. 24 July 1667, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of
Sir Edward de Carteret of Toomer, Som., Whitehall and Trinity Manor, Jersey,
gent. usher of the Black Rod, by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Johnson (d. 1660), Grocer and alderman of London. m. Aug. 1687, Mary Anne, da. of Hon. Nicholas Fairfax,
at least 5s. 2da. suc. fa. 1683;
kntd. 25 Oct. 1687.1
Offices Held
Cornet, indep. tp. of horse 1685; capt.
lt. of horse Earl of Arran’s regt. (4 Drag. Gds.) 1687–9.
Biography
It was
hardly surprising that a history of the Carteret family, published in 1756 in
celebration of the Whig politician Earl Granville, the former Lord Carteret,
should quietly omit details of the life and career of his distant relative Sir
Charles Carteret, an authentic Jacobite who had spent his later years in the
service of the Stuart court-in-exile. The Carterets (also known as the de
Carterets) were a leading Jersey family who had been prominent in the
government of the island since the Middle Ages. Sir Charles’s immediate
forebears were of Trinity Manor, a junior branch of the de Carterets of St.
Ouen, Jersey on whom a baronetcy had been bestowed in 1670.
The two
families became more closely linked in 1676 through the marriage of Sir Philip,
2nd Bt., with Sir Charles’s sister. Carteret’s father, a Royalist during the
Civil War, shared Charles II’s exile, served as Black Rod from 1676 until his
death six years later, and although non-resident bailiff of Jersey was placed
by James II in charge of the island’s defence as major of the militia there.
Carteret
himself served in a troop of horse against Monmouth’s rebellion and was later
promoted to one of the regiments of guards. His early years were spent at the
palace of Whitehall, where his father had lodgings and he was in high favour
with James II. In 1687 he married Mary Anne Fairfax, a maid of honour to Mary
of Modena, and a granddaughter of the 2nd Viscount Fairfax.
The King
gave a marriage portion of £2,000 and it is possible that Carteret converted,
at least temporarily, to Catholicism in line with his wife’s faith. On receipt
of his knighthood in October he was excused the usual fees. Carteret had
already inherited the manor of Toomer, near Milborne Port, which his father had
purchased in 1679. In December 1687, before he had come of age, the King’s
agents reported that he had ‘the best interest of anyone’ at Milborne Port and
added in September 1688 that not only would he be elected but he had influence
enough to carry the second seat. He supported the King after the Dutch invasion
and he and four servants were given a pass on 16 Nov. to visit King James at
Salisbury. Though he did not stand for election to the Convention, he was
making interest in the borough in July 1689, planning to stand jointly with Sir
Thomas Travell*, a Whig merchant.
In 1690, aged only 23, he was returned
unopposed for the borough, and was classed by Lord Carmarthen (Sir Thomas
Osborne†) as a Tory and in another list as a Court supporter. His attendance
during the first session was foreshortened by a grant of leave on 21 Apr. In
December Carmarthen saw him as a likely Court supporter, but in April 1691 he
was noted by Robert Harley* as a Country supporter. There is no evidence,
however, of any noteworthy involvement in parliamentary business.
Returned
in 1695, Carteret became more active in 1696, most notably as a teller. His
political conduct in the House was consistently against the government. In
January 1696 he was forecast as likely to oppose the Court over the proposed
council of trade, and at the end of February was among the Tories who initially
refused to sign the Association. However, he soon afterwards asked the pardon
of the House and signed. In March he voted against fixing the price of guineas
at 22s. In the next session he played an active part in the
defence of Sir John Fenwick†, acting as teller on 6 Nov. with John Granville
against authorizing the bill of attainder, and at the bill’s third reading on
the 25th he outlined his belief that the case was insufficiently proven. He
also voted against the bill in the closing division. Two days later he was
teller in favour of a motion that the ‘grievances of the kingdom’, rather than
the ‘state of the nation’, should be considered by a committee of the whole. On
23 Nov. he had been teller in favour of giving a second reading to the bill for
improving the regulation of elections. In July 1697 it was brought to the
attention of the lords justices that Carteret’s wife had been going about the
streets of London in disguise distributing printed ‘libels’ sent from France,
and orders were issued to the Post Office to intercept her letters. Returned
again in 1698, Carteret was listed as a Country supporter, appeared in the
forecast of those likely to oppose the standing army, and on 18 Jan. 1699 was
one of the tellers (again with Granville) in favour of the disbanding bill. On
15 Mar. he conveyed a private naturalization bill to the Lords.
He was
given three weeks’ leave of absence on 16 Dec., and was teller on 10 Apr. 1700
against adjourning the debate on an address for the removal of Lord Chancellor
Somers (Sir John*) from the King’s presence and councils.
Carteret did not stand at the first
general election of 1701 but instead left England for the Stuart court at St.
Germain where, in November 1701, he was appointed gentleman usher of the Black
Rod, the office his father had previously held under Charles II. He continued
to serve the Old Pretender in this capacity until his death in July 1719 when
he was buried at St. Germain-en-Laye in the presence of his son James and
William Dicconson, treasurer to the Stuart Court.
Charles de Carteret 1669 was the son of Charles De Carteret 1646
– 1685 and Marie De Carteret 1641 – 1686
They were cousins.
Charles de Carteret 1646 was the son of Helier de Carteret 1574 –
1668 and Rachel la Clouche 1619 – 1686
Helier de Carteret 1574 was the son of Pierre de Carteret and
Judith Dumaresq 1552 – 1646
Pierre de Carteret was the son of Francis de Carteret 1515 –
1575 and Margaret Payn 1510 – 1570
Francis de Carteret was the son of Sir Richard de Carteret 1476 –
1560 and Jeanne Dumaresq 1480 – 1570.
This lineage can be traced back to Guilliame
de Carteret born in France, and part of the Norman Conquest.
De Carteret and Montague Line
A member of the Montague family also married
into the de Carteret line.
Dame Jemima Montague, was a direct descendant
of another of those who were involved in the Conquest.
Her line goes back to Drogo de Montagu.
Drogo de Montagu 1030 – 1090 (of Monte Acuto in Normandy) participated in
the Conquest, and at the time of Domesday held lands in Somerset and Devon.
Here is an entry from the Domesday Book:
Drogo of Montacute [Drogo de Montagud] holds
KNOWLE (Park). Alnoth held it before 1066; it paid tax for 1 1/2 hides. Land
for 3 ploughs; as many there. 6 villagers, and 4 slaves with 1 cottager.
Meadow, 15 acres; woodland 4 furlongs in
length and 3 furlongs in width. 26 pigs.
Formally 40s; value now £4.
Drogo holds it from the King.
From this land 1 hide of land has been taken
away which was there before 1066. Thurstan son of Rolf holds it, & an
Englishman from him. Value 20s.
His brother Ansger also held lands in
Somerset.
Our grandmother Aline Basset married Andreas
(Drew or Drogo) Lord Montacute de Talbot 11183 – 1216. Of their sons, Sir William De Montacut
married Berta of Lidworth, and their son was Simon de Montacute 1250 – 1315. His son was William de Montagu 1273 – 1319. He is our 22nd great grandfather.
Through this lineage Lady Jemima Montague is a direct relation.
Jemima was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edward
Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich 1625 – 1672 and his wife Jemima Crew
1625 – 1674. He died along with Jemima’s
husband in 1672 at the Battle of Solebay
Jemima married Sir Philip Carteret 1615
– 1672 and they had 4 children. They
became orphans at a young age and were brought up by their grandmother.
Elizabeth de Carteret 1636 – 1696
Sir Philip Carteret, FRS (1641 – 1672), was the eldest son
of Sir George Carteret and his wife and cousin Elizabeth de Cartetet.
Philip was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 February
1665.
He married Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl
of Sandwich, in an arranged marriage on 31 July 1665. Samuel Pepys had a hand
in the marriage and wrote of it at some length in his diary. Jemima had only
known of Philip some fourteen days before their marriage: Pepys did ask her if
she could like Philip as a husband, and was relieved when she answered that she
thought she could like him very well. It is noted that Jemima failed to arrive
in time for the ceremony at the church, but the marriage is thought to have
been reasonably happy. Jemima died in childbirth in 1671.
Philip was father of four children, including George Carteret,
1st Baron Carteret.
Knighted in 1667, he became Gentleman of the King's Chamber in
1670.
Philip died along with his father-in-law the Earl of Sandwich
when their ship, the Prince Royal, was grappeled by a Dutch fire
ship in the Battle of Solebay.
Their children were Edward Carteret who
married Bridget Exton, George Carteret, who married Grace Granville, Phillipe
de Carteret, Mary and Mary Ann.
Edward’s son was George Carteret. He is buried
in Westminster Abbey
George Carteret
On
21st November 1699 Edward Carteret, 3rd son of Sir Philip (who was killed at
the battle of Sole Bay in 1672) and his wife Lady Jemima Montagu daughter of
the 1st Earl of Sandwich, married Lady Bridget Sudbury, alias Clutterbuck,
daughter of Sir Thomas Exton, in the Abbey. Their eldest son George Carteret
was buried in the nave on 14th November 1718. He died aged 17 while attending Westminster
School.
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur
of Sark, KG, PC (/kɑːrtəˈrɛt/;
22 April 1690 – 2 January 1763), commonly known by his earlier title Lord
Carteret, was a British statesman
and Lord President of the Council from
1751 to 1763; he worked extremely closely with the Prime Minister of the
country, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington,
in order to manage the various factions of the Government. He was Seigneur of Sark from 1715 to 1720 when he sold
the fief.
He held (in absentia) the office of Bailiff of Jersey from
1715 to 1763.
John
Carteret was educated at Westminster
School, and at Christ
Church, Oxford. Jonathan Swift said that "with a singularity
scarce to be justified he carried away more Greek, Latin and philosophy than
properly became a person of his rank". Throughout his life Carteret not
only showed a keen love of the classics, but a taste for and knowledge of
modern languages and literature. He was almost the only English nobleman of his
time who spoke German, which allowed him to talk with and gain the trust
of[4] King George
I, who spoke no
English. Walter Harte, the author of the Life of
Gustavus Adolphus, acknowledged the aid which Carteret had given him.
On 17
October 1710 Carteret married Lady Frances Worsley at Longleat House. She was the granddaughter
of the first Viscount Weymouth. One of their daughters, Georgiana
Caroline Carteret Spencer, became the grandmother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Upon
reaching his majority of 21, Lord Carteret took his seat in the House of Lords on 25 May 1711. Although his
family, on both sides, had been devoted to the Jacobite cause, Carteret was a steady
adherent of the Hanoverian dynasty which supplanted them. He
was a friend of the Whig leaders Stanhope and Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and supported the passing of
the Septennial
Act
On 18
October 1744 Carteret became 2nd Earl Granville on the death of his mother. His
first wife Lady Frances Worsley died on 20 June 1743 at Hanover, and in April 1744 he married Lady
Sophia Fermor, a daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret, a fashionable beauty and
"reigning toast" of London society, who was younger than his
daughters. Granville's ostentatious performance of the part of lover was
ridiculed by Horace
Walpole as
"The nuptials of our great Quixote and the fair Sophia"[6] and "My lord stayed with her
there till four in the morning. They are all fondness—walk together, and stop
every five steps to kiss."
The Countess
Granville died on 7 October 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia Carteret, who
married William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.
Granville's second marriage may have done something to increase his reputation
for eccentricity. In February 1746 he allowed himself to be entrapped by the
intrigues of the Pelhams into accepting the secretaryship, but resigned within
forty-eight hours. In June 1751 he became president of the council, and was
still liked and trusted by the King, but his share in government did not go
beyond giving advice, and endeavouring to forward ministerial arrangements. In
1756 he was asked by Newcastle to become Prime Minister as the alternative to Pitt, but
having perfectly understood why the offer was made, declined and supported
Pitt. When in October 1761 Pitt, who had information of the signing of the
"Family
Compact" wished to
declare war on Spain, and declared his intention to resign
unless his advice was accepted, Granville replied that "the opinion of the
majority (of the Cabinet) must decide". He spoke in
complimentary terms of Pitt but resisted his claim to be considered as a
"sole minister" or Prime Minister.
Whether he
used the words attributed to him in the Annual Register for
1761 is more than doubtful, but the minutes of Council show that they express
his meaning
Philip was the son of Sir George Carteret
1610 – 1680, Elizabeth was the daughter of Phillip de Carteret 1584 – 1643 and
Anne Dowse 1597 – 1644.
Sir George Carteret - a summary of his
life
George Carteret's signature
Sir George
Carteret (1610–1680) was Bailiff of Jersey when King Charles I was
executed and had his son Charles II proclaimed King in Jersey. He had been a
naval officer and was later to serve as Treasurer of the Navy. He was given
large tracts of land in the American colonies by Charles II, who named New
Jersey in his honour.
Family
He was the
son of Helier de Carteret and Elizabeth Dumaresq of Jersey, who both died in
1640. George dropped the "de" from his surname when he entered the
English navy, concerned that the "de" sounded too French). In the
Chapel of Mont Orgueil Castle in May 1640 George married
his cousin Elizabeth de Carteret, daughter of Philippe de Carteret, 3rd
Seigneur of Sark.
Sir George Carteret
Civil War and
Commonwealth
He served as
an officer in various naval ships in the 1630s but when the Civil War started
he retired from the navy, and withdrew with his family to Jersey.
He
subsequently returned to aid the projects of the royalists but then went back
to Jersey to succeeded his uncle as Bailiff, holding the office for eight
years. After subduing the Parliamentary party in the island, he was
commissioned (1644) a vice-admiral of Jersey and "the maritime parts
adjacent", and by virtue of that office he carried on an active
privateering campaign in the Royalist cause. Parliament branded him as a pirate
and excluded him specifically from future amnesty. His rule in Jersey was
severe, but profitable to the island; he developed its resources and made it a
refuge for Royalists, among whom in 1646 and again in 1649-1650 was Prince
Charles, who created Carteret a knight and baronet.
George
Carteret also had Charles proclaimed King in Saint Helier on 17 February 1649, after the
execution of his father, Charles I. Charles II never forgot that Jersey became
the first of his realms to recognise his claim to the throne.
Elizabeth Carteret
Privateering resumes
After his
proclamation in Jersey Charles rewarded de Carteret by ordering that his
privateering could resume. He sent Carteret a bundle of Letters of Marque,
signed by himself in ink, with a blank for the names of the captain and boat
left for Carteret to fill in, and soon once more, Jersey privateers were making
the Channel dangerous for ships flying Cromwell’s flag
Know that we,
reposing trust and confidence in your courage, experience in sea affairs, a
good affection to Us, do by these presents nominate and appoint you Captain of
the good ship ………………………, giving you authority with your ship manned, equipped,
and armed for war, to enter any River or Port of England, and, either there or
at sea, to apprehend and possess, and in the case of resistance to sink, fire,
or otherwise destroy, all ships together with their men, goods, and lading,
belonging to any place or person of our subjects in actual rebellion against,
or not in present obedience to Us, together with the ships, persons, and goods,
of all their aiders and abettors.
And to bring all
ships, persons and merchandize as you shall take, without breaking the bulk or
altering the property of any of the said goods, to our Island of Jersey, there
to cause the same to be adjudged lawful prize by such Judge of the Admiralty as
is settled there, and after such adjudication to pay the tenths and fifteenths
to Our use to such person as shall have authority to receive the same.
Provided that you do
not permit any injury to be done to any ships belonging to subjects of any
Prince or State in league or amity with Us,
And that you make the
Isle of Jersey the constant place of your abode, and obey the orders of the
Governor there, whilst you enjoy the benefits our this Our commission,
Provided that you
enter into bond of one thousand pounds sterling to Us for the performance of
all these particulars.
CHARLES R
In addition
to this naval win for Carteret, he received a highly unexpected prize. The
execution of King Charles I caused considerable discontent within the Navy. One
of their frigates, the “Heart” changed sides and, to the surprise of all,
arrived at Jersey. Carteret, not one to miss an opportunity, took advantage of
the fact that nobody knew this change of loyalties had occurred. He sent the
Heart off to Guernsey to capture another ship, the “Secant”. The crew of the
Secant, unknowing that the Heart had pledged their loyalty to the King, was an
easy target and the captured ship and its prizes went to Jersey. An unusual
characteristic of Carteret is revealed here. Although he did “imprison the
Jerseymen and Guernseymen on board, he sent the others to St. Malo and gave
each of them a piece of eight so that they might be able to pay their expenses
in getting back to England”
Surrender
Carteret had
to surrender Jersey to the Commonwealth on 12 December 1651 after an invasion by parliamentarian troops. He then
went into exile in France. Although he had command of a French naval vessel for
some time, he was imprisoned in 1657 and then exiled from France, after which
he went to Venice.
Restoration
At the
Restoration, having shared Charles II’s banishment, Sir George formed one of
the immediate train of the restored monarch on his triumphant entry into
London. The next day Carteret was sworn into the Privy Council, appointed
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, and Treasurer of the Navy. His career for
the next decade is documented in the diary of Samuel Pepys who joined him as
Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board in 1660. In 1667 he exchanged his office as
Vice-Chamberlain with Lord Anglesey for that of Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, an
office which he sold two years later for £11000.
Duce in Normandy where Carteret took refuge during the
Commonwealth occupation of Jersey
American colonies
The fidelity
with which Carteret, like John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, had
clung to the royal cause, gave him great influence at court. He had, at an
early date, taken a warm interest in the colonization of America. In
recognition for all the help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the
1640s, Charles II gave Carteret a large grant of land in the American colonies,
which he named New Jersey. With Berkeley, he became one of the proprietors of
the Province of Carolina, prior to their becoming jointly interested in East
Jersey. Carteret County, North Carolina and the town of Carteret, New Jersey
are named after him.
In 1665,
Carteret was one of the drafters of the Concession and Agreement, a
document that provided freedom of religion in the colony of New Jersey. It was
issued as a proclamation for the structure of the government for the colony
written by the two proprietors, Berkeley and Carteret.
1976 Jersey commemorative stamp
Later life
He was
elected in 1661 to represent Portsmouth in Parliament but his lax methods of
keeping accounts led to his being censured by parliament, having initially been
accused of embezzlement. After an announcement from the king expressing his
satisfaction with Carteret and an acquittal by the House of Lords, the inquiry
against him lapsed.
In 1673, he
was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and continued in the public
service until his death on 14 January 1680.
Shortly
before Carteret's death, the king proposed to give him the title Baron
Carteret, but Carteret died too soon, so the honour was granted to his grandson
George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret.
§
Sir George Carteret, biography from Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise
§
Sir George Carteret 2, from A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey
§ Sir George Carteret 1643-1646, from Jersey in the 17th
Century by A C Saunders
§
https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Sir_George_Carteret_-_a_summary_of_his_life
George was the son of Sir Helier de
Carteret 1583 – 1646 and Dame Elizabeth Dumaresq 1589 – 1639
Other Family Members of Interest
Renaud de Carteret (1359- )
Seigneur of St Ouen and of Longueville, who was Bailiff of Jersey, as appears by Rolls of
the Royal Court, in 1446. He was succeeded by his son, Renaud.
Philippe de Carteret (1400- )
Seigneur of St Ouen, who at the time of his father's death was a
minor in ward of the King. His guardianship was granted to Roger de Walden,
Rector of Drayton, Leicester, "he paying into the Exchequer ten pounds per
annum, for which the said Roger gave security". This Sir
Philippe inherited
all the military talents of his ancestors, and was one of the principal
instruments in rescuing the island after a period of French occupation.
Sir Philippe married the sole daughter and heiress of Sir William
Newton, of of Gloucestershire, by whom he had a son Philippe, who married
Perrine, daughter of Penna de Caux, of the Pays of Caux in Normandy, and had a
son, another Philippe.
Philippe de Carteret (1452- )
Although not quite as dramatic as his grandfather's seige of Mont Orgueil, this Philippe
de Carteret was
involved in another dramatic saga which involved his wife rushing to the Court
of Henry VII in London to persuade him to bring to a halt a duel in which
Philippe might have lost his life.
1 Philippe
de Carteret (1452-1500) m Margaret Harleston (1452- )
§ 2 Philippe de Carteret (1474- )
§ 2 Mabelle de Carteret (1478- ) m Drouet
Lempriere (1474-1522)
§ 3 Jean Lempriere (1500- ) m Elizabeth
de Carteret (1500- )
§ 4 Gilles Lempriere (1525- ) m Jane
Dumaresq (1530- )
§ 5 Catherine Lempriere (1560-1610) m
Amias (Amice) de Carteret (1559-1631)
§ 6 Elizabeth de Carteret (1579-1672) m
Thomas Andros (1571-1637)
§ 2 William de Carteret (1479- )
§ 2 Pierre de Carteret (1482- )
§ 3 George de Carteret (1505- )
§ 3 Catherine de Carteret (1510- ) m
Laurens Anquetil
§ 2 Edouard de Carteret (1486-1533) m
Mary (Marie) Sarre (1490- )
§ 3 Marguerite de Carteret (1514-1532) m
Michel Sarre (1496-1539)
§ 3 Helier de Carteret (1532-1584) m Margaret
de Carteret (1510-)
§ 4 Philip de Carteret (1552-1594) m Rachel
Paulett (1561-1650)
§ 5 Elias de Carteret (1580- ) m (1608, St Mt)
Elizabeth Dumaresq (1589- )
§ 6 Rachel de Carteret (1618- ) m Clement Le Montais (1620- )
§ 6 Philippe de Carteret (1620- ) m Mary
de la Place (1625- )
§ 7 Mary de Carteret (1645- ) m Clement
Dumaresq (1635- )
§ 5 Sir Philip de Carteret (1584-1643)
m [1] Ann Dowse (1585-1664)
§ 6 Philippe de Carteret (1625- ) m Ann
Dumaresq (1627- )
§ 5 Sarah de Carteret (1589- ) m Elias
Dumaresq (1581-1639)
§ 5 Susan de Carteret (1593-1658) m
Abraham Dumaresq (1580-)
§ 6 Elias Dumaresq (1624-1677) m Jane
Payn (1625- )
§ 7 Elias Dumaresq (1648-1731) m Frances
de Carteret (1663-.1681)
§ 6 Benjamin Dumaresq (1626-1680) m
Elizabeth de Carteret (1647- )
§ 6 Ann Dumaresq (1627- ) m Philippe de
Carteret (1625-1649)
§ 5 Judith de Carteret (1593- ) m 1 Elias
Le Montais; 2 Sir Bryan Johnson
§ 5 Gideon de Carteret (1595- )
§ 5 Elizabeth de Carteret (1597- ) m 1
Samuel de Beauvoir; 2 John le Hardy
§ 5 Rachel de Carteret m Benjamin La
Cloche
§ 5 Amias de Carteret
§ 5 Ann de Carteret
§ 4 Amias (Amice) de Carteret (1559-1631) m
Catherine Lempriere (1560-1610)
§ 4 William de Carteret (1555- )
§ 2 Jean de Carteret (1486- )
§ 2 Helier de Carteret (1477-1561) m 1
Unknown (1490- ); 2 Jehenne Colles (1500- )
§ 3 Margaret de Carteret (1510- ) m
Clement Dumaresq (1504-1551)
§ 4 Henri Dumaresq (1527-1579) m Marie
Lempriere (1527- )
§ 5 Sarah Dumaresq (1536- ) m Helier de
Carteret (1539- )
§ 6 Francis de Carteret (1559- )
§ 7 Catherine de Carteret (1585- ) m
Thomas Bisson (1576-1614)
§ 4 Jane Dumaresq (1536- ) m 1 Richard Le
Brocq (1535- ); 2 Jurat John de Carteret (1542- )
§ 5 Philippe de Carteret (1575-1640) m
(1625, St H) Genette de Soulemont (1580- )
§ 6 Francis de Carteret (1625-1693)
m [2] Mary Bailhache (1631-1652)
§ 7 Frances de Carteret (1663- ) m Elias
Dumaresq (1648-1731)
§ 7 John de Carteret (1652- ) m (1676, St
P) Rachel Nicolle (1654-1674)
§ 5 John de Carteret (1577- )
§ 5 Esther de Carteret (1579-) m 1
Matthieu Le Gallais (1580-1611); 2 Abraham Paulett (1575- )
§ 3 Edouard de Carteret (1518-1601) m
Margaret (1520- )
§ 4 Jean de Carteret (1541-1608) m Judith
Quesle (1535- )
§ 5 Thomas de Carteret (1579-1647) m
Sarah La Couture (1585-1677)
§ 6 Elie de Carteret (1618- ) m [3] Lydie Hamon (1615-)
§ 7 Olive de Carteret (1652-1724) m Elie
Hamon (1659-1721)
§ 2 Richard de Carteret (1488- ) m Jeanne Dumaresq (1492-
)
§ 3 Nicholas de Carteret (1508- )
§ 4 Jurat John de Carteret (1542- ) m
Jane Dumaresq (1536- )
§ 5 Philippe de Carteret (1575-1640)
§ 5 John de Carteret (1577- )
§ 5 Esther de Carteret (1579- )
§ 3 Francis de Carteret (1510- ) m
Margaret Payn (1510- )
§ 4 Helier de Carteret (1539- ) m Sarah
Dumaresq (1536- )
§ 5 Francis de Carteret (1559- )
§ 3 Collette de Carteret (1512- ) m
(1550) St Ouen, Philippe Le Couteur (1520-1572) St Mary
Sir Edouard
de Carteret - 1
From A Biographical Dictionary
of Jersey by George Balleine
Sir Edouard de Carteret (1620-1683)was Gentleman
Usher of the Black Rod and Bailiff of Jersey.
He was the younger son of Lieut-Bailiff Josue De
Carteret and Jeanne Herault daughter of Edouard, Rector of St Clement. He was
born in Trinity Manor on 17 February 1620.
Civil War
During the Civil War in June 1649 he went
with Sir George Carteret to Paris to arrange for the King's visit to Jersey. He was one of the defenders of Elizabeth Castle when it surrendered in 1651. He
then shared the King's exile.
The Patent appointing him Bailiff states:
”He has constantly served and followed
our person in foreign landss".
This meant nine years aimless drifting
from Paris to Colognee, Bruges, Brussels, Brittany, the Spanish frontier, back
again to Brussels. In August 1654 he is mentioned as one of the members of the
King's Household who were to receive board wages out of the 72,000 guilders
allowed by the King of France. At the Restoration in 1660 he obtained a
position at Court. In 1665 he is described as “Knight, one of our Gentlemen
Ushers in Ordinary and Daily Waiter".
On 25 November 1665 he was sworn in as
Bailiff, the first of six non-resident De Carteret Bailiffs, whose English
engagements left little time for their Jersey duties. Under them the office
of Lieut-Bailiff assumed a new importance, for
Lieut-Bailiffss now performed all the Bailiff's functions.
Sir Edouard's Lieutenants were Jean
Pipon, Jean Poingdestre then Philippe Le Geyt. For eleven years (1668-79) Sir
Edouard did not once preside over the States. In 1675 he is mentioned as Keeper
of the Little Park, Windsor. In 1676 he became Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, a title derived from his ebony staff surmounted by a gold lion. His duty
now was to attend the King, when he went to the House of Lords, to maintain
order in the House, and arrest recalcitrant peers, and to summon the Commons to
hear the King's speech and his assent to their bills. Moreover, as Usher to the
Order of the Garter, he had to keep the door at all meetings of the Chapter.
In 1679 a constitutional crisis brought
him back to Jersey. When appointed Bailiff in 1665, one of his first acts had
been to call the King's attention to the danger of a French invasion. In
response Sir Thomas Morgan had been sent as Governor, a fine soldier, but a testy old martinet with no respect whatever for
civil officials. He told the Attorney-General that he "had been like to
lay him by the heels", and during a sitting of the Court he threatened the
Constable of St Martin with his cane, shouting: "By God, Sirrah, I shall
rub your nose".
Petition to King
After much friction the States at last
petitioned the King against him and in July 1679 secured an Order in Council
granting all that they asked for, and stating that "no Governor shall
disturb the inhabitants in the peaceable possession of their privileges".
But Morgan had died in April. The new
Governor,Sir John Lanier, who owed his appointment
largely to de Carteret's influence at Court, protested that this Order would
"much impayre the authoritie of the Governor", and secured its
suspension till the States should produce a list of their privileges for his consideration.
De Carteret realized that this required his personal attention. He spent the
next nine months in Jersey. A new deputation was sent to the Council, but it
could not prevent a revision of the Order, much in Lanier's favour.
Sir Edouard was still Bailiff in March
1682, when he protested successfully before the Council against the stopping of
work on St Aubin pier, but later in the year he resigned in favour of his
son-in-law, Sir Philippe De Carteret of St
Ouen, the husband of his
daughter Elizabeth. On 18 February 1683 he died while on a visit to St Ouen's Manor.
The St Lawrence Church Register
declares:
"He was buried with the pomp and
splendour that his dignity deserved".
Tradition says that all arrangements
had been made to bury him in St. Ouen's Church, but, as the procession was
about to start, a terrific thunderstorm frightened the six horses that drew the
hearse, and they could not be reined in, till they stopped of their own accord
at the gate of Trinity Church. The mourners who had followed this mad stampede
took this as a sign that he wished to be buried in his native parish.
The coffin was taken to the Manor,
while a new grave was dug beside his family pew, and the funeral was finished
by torch-light. We have found no contemporary evidence for the bolting horses,
but it is a fact that he was buried in Trinity Church, where the finest mural monument in
the island proclaims in Latin that "no juster man ever lived on earth or
one more loving to a friend".
He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Johnson, Alderman of London, and had three children, Elizabeth, born 30
December 1663, and baptized in St Martin-in-the-fields, who married Sir Philippe
De Carteret, Charles, and Edward, born 1665, who died when seven years old, and
was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Philip De
Carteret (died
1500) was the eighth Seigneur of Saint
Ouen. The son of Philip, he married Margaret Harliston in 1470 and
had 21 children.
According to
a biased non-contemporary account of Baker's governorship, Philip De Carteret
opposed the alleged cruelty of the rule of Matthew
Baker as Governor
of Jersey, who had been appointed with vice-regal Powers in all
but name. It was alleged that Baker conceived a plot to implicate De Carteret
as a traitor, using a letter purportedly written by De Carteret to the Normans.
De Carteret was imprisoned in Mont Orgueil to await trial by combat. According to a chronicle of events, -
written by a member of the De Carteret family some 70 years later - his wife
Margaret, who had only recently given birth, secretly took a boat to the
English mainland to convince King Henry
VII of her
husband's innocence. He was freed and his lands and chattels returned to him,
and Baker was later recalled from office. Henry VII was not absolutely
convinced of De Carteret's loyalty, however, and placed him under a Bond of
£1,000 as surety for his future good conduct.
Sir
Philip Carteret, 1st Baronet
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
Sir Philip Carteret, 1st Baronet (1620 – between 1663 and 1675), also known
as Philippe de Carteret III, was the 4th Seigneur of Sark. He supported the Royalist (Cavalier) cause during the War of the Three Kingdoms.
Philip Carteret was the son of Philippe de Carteret II. He succeeded to the Seigneurie
of Sark on the death of his father in 1643.
During the English Civil War Carteret was lieutenant to his kinsman George Carteret, and was knighted on the beach of St Aubin's Bay in Jersey by the exiled Charles, Prince of Wales in 1645.
In 1661 he became Bailiff of Jersey. in 1670 he was
created a baronet, of St Owen on the Island of Jersey.
Family
Carteret married Anne (1566–1644),[1] daughter
of Abraham Dumaresq Seig Des Augres. They had children including Phillip (1650-1693) and two daughters.
Philippe de Carteret II
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Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur of Sark (18 February 1584 – 22 August
1643) was the son of Philippe de Carteret I (1552–1594) and Rachel Paulett (1564–1650), daughter of George Paulett (1534–1621) who was Bailiff of
Jersey from 1583 to 1611, and his wife Elizabeth Perrin (1538–1615).
Biography[edit]
He matriculated at the University of Oxford at an early age in 1594, the same year he succeeded his father
as Seigneur of Sark. He was knighted in 1617, and became Bailiff of Jersey in 1627. He died in 1643, being
succeeded in the Seigneurie by his son, Philippe 4th Seigneur of Sark.
Family[edit]
Carteret married Anne Dowse (1587-1664), daughter of Sir Francis Dowse
(died 1649) of Nether Wallop, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Paulet (died before 1649)[a] They had seven sons and three
daughters:[1]
·
Philippe (c. 1620-1662), who succeeded him, and was father of Philippe de Carteret IV.
·
Peyton (died September 1652), drowned with Prince Maurice.
·
Zouch.
·
Gideon (died 1643).
·
Francis (died 1693), Attorney-General of Jersey, married Anne Seale
(died c. 1704). Among their descendants were Elias Dumaresq V, Seigneur of Augres , General Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove
Turner and Bodleian Librarian Bulkeley Bandinel.
·
Thomas de Carteret.
·
Sir Edward (died 1699).
·
Elizabeth (died 1697), married her cousin, Sir George Carteret.
·
Margaret.
·
Anne de Carteret (died 1708), married Rev. Daniel Brevint, Dean of Lincoln (1616-1695).
Sir Renaud De Carteret V, or Sir Reginald De Carteret V (born 1316) was
a Seigneur of St Ouen in Jersey.
He followed his father as Seigneur of St Ouen in 1327. Succeeded
to the command of the military forces in Jersey when the Governor Dru d'Barentin was slain.
Edward
III's pursuit of
the French Crown brought war with France in its train, and the islands were
again drawn into the conflict.
Sir Renaud successfully repelled the attacks of Nicolas
Béhuchet, Admiral of
France in 1338. In 1339 and 1340 more attacks were repulsed again under his
command.
The French had captured Guernsey and held it for three years. They
attempted to capture Jersey, but failed to take Mont Orgueil.
Sir Renaud led a Jersey fleet, assisted by the English, to
regain Guernsey in 1356 and helped to drive out the French from that island.
During this battle many notable Jerseymen lost their lives, but because a
prominent Guernseyman, William Le Feyvre, was executed for treason by the
Jerseymen, a bitter interinsular feud broke out between the islands.
A trial ensued, when the angry widow stated that her husband had
been done to death, "out of ancient enmity and their own malice", and
the Jerseymen implicated were banished. Sir Renaud de Carteret and Ralph
Lempriere, who had been leaders in the siege, challenged the verdict and were
imprisoned in Castle
Cornet, where they had
a hard time at the hands of the Guernseymen until released by the King's
pardon.
It is really quite amazing to think that technology and research
have allowed people to join the “dots” with their family trees. Acquaintances who share common
ancestors!
Kris Herron herronjk@bigpond.net.au
Hervey Bay Queensland\
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