Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

memory of William Carter who devoted so many years of his life to Slingsby and its church. The Rectory is a wonderful Georgian building, and Edmund will have lived there from the age of ten, during his holidays from Durham School, and whilst on vacation from Oxford. Across the lane is the recreation field with today a much loved cricket ground. It may well be that Edmund spent many hours on that ground as a child creating and nurturing his cricketing skills. Frances gave birth to at least 11 children during her marriage to William. Names and dates of birth given in census forms from 1841 onwards were William (junior) in 1834, Frances 1836, John 1838, Harriet also 1838, Helen 1841, Lucy Mary 1842, Emmeline 1844, Edmund Sardinson 1845, Arthur 1848, Charles C 1851, and Henry E 1855. Edmund had been born on 3 February 1845 at York Road in the parish of Old Malton. The exact birthplace may have been the Old Malton Parsonage House where William Carter, his wife and the eldest children were living at the time of the 1841 census and they were still living there in 1845. Edmund was baptised at St Michael’s Church, Malton, by his father on 9 April 1845. At the time of the 1851 census when Edmund was aged six, the Family 9 Slingsby Rectory