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Renaud de Carteret V (1316-Hellier de Carteret (1563-1578) Philippe de Carteret II (1584–1643) Philippe de Carteret I (1552–1594) Jason De Carteret (19xx-) Sir Francis de Carteret Attorney-General of Jersey; George William de Carteret (1869 Jersey-4 September 1940) Cecil de Carteret (1886–3 January 1932) Philip de Carteret, 8th of St Ouen ...
The de Carteret family originated in Normandy. They colonised the island of Sark as Seigneurs. At the time of the restoration, some became Barons Carteret and were granted lands in the Carolinas and in the State that became New Jersey. Their ancestral seat is Saint Ouen's Manor, Jersey, still today owned by persons of that name.
Philip Carteret was the son of Philippe de Carteret II.He succeeded to the Seigneurie of Sark on the death of his father in 1643.. During the English Civil War, Carteret was lieutenant to his kinsman George Carteret, and was knighted on the beach of St Aubin's Bay in Jersey by the exiled Charles, Prince of Wales in 1645.
The Chemin de fer touristique du Cotentin is a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge heritage railway and voluntary association in Normandy, France. The railway runs between Barneville-Carteret and Portbail on part of the former railway line linking Carentan to Barneville-Carteret in Cotentin .
Barneville-Carteret is located on the west coast of the Cotentin Peninsula some 40 km south by south-west of Cherbourg and 10 km north of Portbail.Access to the commune is by highway D650 from Les Moitiers-d'Allonne to the north which passes through the north of the commune and continues south-east following the coast to Le Pont de La Roque.
With the separation of Normandy from England, (1204), Renaud de Carteret had to choose (with many others) between his possessions in Jersey and those in continental Normandy. Although he had far greater lands on the continent, of which the town of Carteret still bears the name, he chose to throw in his lot with Jersey and remain faithful to the ...