Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameEmmet CARTER 26, 147457
Birth Dateabt 1437
Birth PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England
FatherRichard CARTER , 294914 (~1412-)
Mother_____ _____ , 294915 (?-)
Spouses
1Ralfe HURTE 597,26, 147456
Birth Dateabt 1433
Birth PlaceAshbourne-In-Ye-Peake, Derbyshire Co, England?
Death Dateaft 1496 Age: 63
Family ID3322
Marr PlaceDerby, Derbyshire, England
ChildrenThomas , 73728 (~1459-<1510)
 Roger (~1460-<1523)
Notes for Emmet CARTER
(1) Harlean Society Pub. XV; The Visitation of Bishopsgate Ward, London, 1634; information provided from family records by William Hurt, mercer of London.
(2) Journal of the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History Society, Vol.3 pg. 6, FHL# 1696504-3.
(3) information found on internet on 4 Aug 1998. www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith/ODT1-0001.html Karen Adele Smith, 212 Woodlawn Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19803; e-mail: cfhs@voicenet.com
Notes for Ralfe (Spouse 1)
HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) Visitation of Kent, 1619, Harleian Society Publication
(2) Journal of the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History Society, Vol.3 pg. 6, FHL# 1696504-3.
(3) information found on internet on 4 Aug 1998. www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith/ODT1-0001.html Karen Adele Smith, 212 Woodlawn Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19803; e-mail: (cfhs@voicenet.com)
(4) Oct 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect East Kentucky Connections Ken Burke
"The name of Hurt is an ancient Nottingham name. An ancient and distinguished opulent family of this name reside at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, from the 15th to the 17th century. The Hurts of Kniveton, Casterne, and Alderwasley in that county were younger branches of the same. In the reign of Edward I (1274-1307), Hurt was a common name in Oxfordshire and it was also represented then in Lincolnshire and Devonshire. Richard Hurt was Mayor of Nottingham, England in 1595-1602 and 1609. John Hurt was Vicar of St. Mary's Church in 1461"
"The Alderwasley Estate, of which Castern was formerly a part, was originally granted to the Hurts' direct ancestors, the LeFawne family, by Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, in 1284. The Earl, who evidently had a taste for verse, phrased his charter thus:
"I and myne, Give thee and thine, Milneis Hay and Shyning Cliff, While grass is green and berrys suffe" (plentiful)"

"There is a tradition that the founder of the house of Hurt, who had been invited to Court, possessed a magnificent bay horse, to which the King took a liking. The Derbyshire gentleman cheerfully presented the animal to His Majesty and begged in return 'A Bramble Bed, and a place to water his cattle at!"

"The 'Bramble Bed' was Shining Cliff, and the watering place the broad reaches of Derwent under the hanging woods of Alderwasley."
From : Derbyshire Life and Countryside, July 1965, Volume 30 No. Seven, Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Early Hurts in Ashbourne Derbyshire England
Many thanks to Varla Jane Owens Wright for this submission.
What follows is a very brief summary of the three earliest Hurt generations so far located in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, submitted by Varla Jane Owens Wright. About her research on these early Hurts, she says, "At this point, we're relying almost entirely on wills. I have not yet completed "translating" the wills of William and his brother Nicholas, as they are very difficult to read. I hope to get them done soon, but I have scanned them for names and relationships, which are easier to decipher than many of the other words. It is very frustrating to find Ralph listed in the index, and then not locate him in the microfilm of the wills. I went through the whole series page by page - twice. He just isn't there. Apparently his will went astray. I hope it will turn up of be drawn to someone's attention in one of those serendipitous events that occur so often in this line of work."
Early Hurt Families in the Ashbourne Area of Derbyshire, England
The earliest known Hurt ancestor is given as Raphe/Ralfe Hurte of Ashbourne who, according to the Windsor Herald, married Emmet, daughter of Richard Carter, around 1454. This couple had two known sons; Thomas b. abt. 1459 of Ashbourne-in-ye-Peake, Derbyshire, and Roger, who left a will dated 11 Sept. 1522 and probated 22 Oct 1523. Roger apparently had no wife or children and left everthing to his godchildren and friends. [FHL# 95288 - document $ 43].
Thomas had four sons, as reported in records currently available:
1. William, b. about 1460 of Ashbourne, Derbyshire and Matfield, Staffordshire, d. 1520
2. Lawrence, b. about 1472, of Stanton, Staffordshire, d. 1550
3. Ralfe, b. about 1485, lived at Ashbourne, d. 1539
4. Nicholas, b. about 1487, possibly lived at Brailsforth, Derbyshire, d. 1559
No daughters are listed on any available documents nor has any document been found that gives the name of his wife or the wives of Lawrence and Nicholas. All three younger brothers are named in the will of the eldest, William, dated 30 Sep. 1520 and probated 30 Oct 1520 at the Episcopal Consistory Court of Litchfield [FHL# 95406].
Lawrence appears to have been living at Edalston, Staffordshire at the time of his death. His will was probated from Stanton 17 Apr 1550. [FHL# 95289] He did not name a wife or any children, but did name his younger (and at that time, only living) brother, Nicholas. Nicholas appears to be the one whose will was probated from Brailsforth, Derbyshire 6 Apr 1559.
The third son of Thomas, Ralfe Hurt of Ashbourne (1485-1539), married Alice Harris, as reported in the pedigree of his descendant William Hurt of Dover and Kent in the 1619 Visitation of Kent and also in the "Pedigree of the Hurts of Bristol" compiled by the Windsor Herald in 1819 from the records of the College of Arms in London. He wrote a will in 1530 which was probated 6 May 1539 in the Episcopal Consistory Court of Litchfield and appears listed in the index to those wills. However, it is no longer found among those wills as currently microfilmed.
Ralph is shown on a pedigree chart published in 1881 in the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeology and Natural History Society, Vol. 3, pg. 6. [FHL# 1696504 item 3 as being the ancestor of the Hurts of Bristol. (His father, Thomas, and brothers William and Nicholas are also listed on this chart, which is primarily concerned with the progeny of Nicholas).
Records show that William, Ralph and Nicholas have a large number of descendants.604

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