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Hi Richarde and Emmeline, I have a Charles Carter weaver, apprenticed to Peter Duthoit Spitalfields May 30 1720. I am researching my Carter family, Huguenot refugees fled France about 1685 to Spitalfields but all records pre 1794 with the marriage of my g,g,g grandfather James have been lost. Unable to trace parents or siblings of James. All we have to go on are various snippets of hearsay handed down by family members over the generations but suspect that not all reliable. Name supposedly changed from Cartier or Chartier to Carter at some stage before early 1700s.Would appreciate if you could let me know if you have come across these Carters in your research of the Duthoits or in any relevant documents. Other names also probably in the silk trade were Thomas Carter about 1765, Benoitt Carter about 1721, William and John Carter about 1770s
Tks & rgds, Dennis Carter 
 

Hi, I have only just picked up your message 11 years after it was posted ! Sarah Lowe Rugg was my gr,gr grandmother. Her daughter Alice Maud Lottie White born 1860 married Frederick Carter in 1884 and they had 5 children in England (all born before their marriage in Sep 1884) before emigrating to New Zealand in December 1884 where they had 5 more children. Alice died in 1908 and Frederick in 1918.
I have been doing the Carter family history for about 25 years and have a lot of information on the White family as well. Like you I could never find anything about the Rugg and Crossman families in Somerset or when/if they might have moved to London, or if Sarah moved there on her own before meeting James Chandos White. The Lowes who were witnesses at their marriage are also a mystery but could have been cousins of Sarah.
Would be interested to learn if you managed to find out any more in the intervening years since 2009.   
Best regards, Dennis Carter