The Bonham Carter family

By the middle of the eighteenth century the Carter family were well established in the Portsmouth area. Despite being a non-conformist family they held various local civic offices including burgess, alderman and mayor.

They were a brewers, first appearing in local records when John Carter married a Mary White in 1710. By marriage they later become linked to other local brewing families when their son married Susannah Pike, daughter of William Pike, and a daughter Ann married John Bonham, whose descendants still carry the name Bonham-Carter. They also became relations again through marriage with the Nightingale family of which Florence was a descendant.

There are numerous family papers deposited and freely available to view at the Hampshire Record Office.