T.J. probably Thomas James Carter

Career Antiquarian / Dealer / Archaeologist / Labourer

Biography Born in Oxfordshire and lived in St Clements, Oxford from 1836. Worked in the brickfields until rheumatism forced him to retire and earn his living selling fossils he had found in the brickfields and quarries. Percy Manning [qv] commissioned him to collect folklore on his travels some of which he donated to the museum together with stone tools collected by him during his fossil hunts [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 14/12/2006]

Biography References http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-587X%2819020929%2913%3A3%3C288%3ASNOOF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K / http://www.thedonkey.org/Recycling/manning.html / http://www.folkplay.info/Helm/Helm13.htm / http://www.themorrisring.org/more/cs.html

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Maker / Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnographyOther

Collected around ?1909

Dates active 1832-1909 or later

Donated around ?1909

Owned ?1909

English collections Stone tools, toys and games, folk cures and musical instruments

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1836 to death

English collection size 1160

Connections Percy Manning / Henry Balfour