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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of French Cartret, probably a derivative of Old French cartier ‘quarter’, which, among other things, denoted a measure of land equivalent to the area which could be sown with a quart of seed.
  • A John Cartrett is recorded in Surrey, England, in 1596. Possibly this French surname was brought via England to North America, perhaps by Huguenots.

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