Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

from the Church. The Rectory was huge, said to have some 20 rooms, and suitable for a large family though by 1908 most of the Reverend and Mrs Carter’s children had left home. The 1911 census names only one daughter Catherine Helen Carter as living with her parents, supported by a domestic cook and domestic housemaid. Village life was sadly punctuated by the occasional funeral of men and women, some of whom had lived out their lives in the parish. They were then buried in the churchyard beside the church in which they may have worshipped. There were five burials both in 1910 and 1911, three in 1912 and 1913, two in 1914, none in 1915 and then eight in 1916 including a child who lived for just two hours and for whom Edmund Carter in his clear handwriting wrote in the burial register that he so carefully kept: ‘Unbaptised and burial without Church of England service.’ A funeral wreathed in sadness for the Rector was that of his wife Rosa who died in the spring of 1912 aged 71 and who was buried in the churchyard on 3 May 1912. The only concession that the Rector made to his usual brief recording of deaths in the register was to add the words ‘(Wife of the Rector)’ after the name Rosa Sophia Carter. The youngest daughter Rosa Frances Carter may well then have returned to live alongside her sister Catherine in the Rectory to support their father. In November 1912, six months or so after the death of the mother, Edmund Carter left his entire estate to those two daughters subject to they having remained unmarried. He declared that his other children were already ‘provided for or earning sufficient income for their maintenance’. In an age when unmarried daughters often made sacrifices for their parents, such provision was not unusual Cricket at Scarborough before the War An obvious attraction for Edmund Carter of being the Rector at Thwing was the relative close proximity of Scarborough. By 1908, when he first made Thwing his home, the Scarborough Cricket Festival was well established – not least due to his own hard work over past years. In each year from 1908 to 1913 the Old Ebor, Hawke, Thwing 102