What is a "CARTERS" trade or occupation. As on census?

Question:My Great-Grandfather was listed as a carter, he worked for the rauilway delivering goods and luggage. My Uncle who is eighty, tells a story that when he was six and in school his grandfather went past the playground and saw him and took him on his cart to make his deliveries and of course there was hell to pay when no-one could find my Uncle.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My Great-Grandfather was listed as a carter, he worked for the rauilway delivering goods and luggage. My Uncle who is eighty, tells a story that when he was six and in school his grandfather went past the playground and saw him and took him on his cart to make his deliveries and of course there was hell to pay when no-one could find my Uncle.

someone whose work is driving carts

they drove carts around. this could have been on a farm, or a delivery cart for a merchant, or it could have been a regular cart that transported items and possibly people from town to town, on a regular basis, although this last might more properly be described as a carrier.

They were the equivalent of todays truck drovers. They drove horse drawn carts or wagons, hauling goods from place to place.

as in horse and cart, equvalent to a lorry today.

This is taken from the link given below,

Capitalist Investor, providing capital for commerce
Cardroomer Worker in the carding room of cotton/woollen mills
Carder Carded (combed - a skilled job) wool or cotton More Info.
Card Maker 1) Made the combs and implements for carding (combing) wool
2) Made the loom-cards used by Jacquard looms in the weaving of figured fabrics
Carman/Charman/Carrier/
Carter/Cartman Driver of (horse-drawn) vehicles for transporting goods. Carmen were often employed by railway companies for local deliveries and collections of goods and parcels. Modern day van driver. Also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a Carman.
Card Nailer / Nailorer Maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machine used on wool & cotton before weaving
Carnifex Butcher
Carpentarius Carpenter - from Latin
Carter Carrier of goods by wagon

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html

Hope this helps.

CARTER: someone whose work is driving carts. It is similar to an early-day truck driver.