There are quite a number of people out there who are descendants of William
Carlile, my immigrant ancestor born about 1753 in Ireland. He married Sarah
(some people believe her surname was Barker but I have seen nothing to
confirm this) about 1778 in Ireland. She was born about 1763 in Ireland
(some believe she was from County Cavan, but I have not seen any proof of
that either. My father always told me that our ancestors were thought to be
Scots-Irish, but again, no proof, although the surname Carlile/Carlisle
appears to have originated from the city of Carlisle, England in the
administrative county of Cumbria (formerly the old county of Cumberland)
which is located about 10 miles south of the border between Scotland and
England.
It makes sense that the Carlile/Carlisle families emigrated to Northern
Ireland in the 1600's during "The Plantations" phase of English dominance
over the Irish when the English Crown was importing both English and Scots
into Ireland and confiscating the estates of the Catholic Irish in favor of
the Protestant Scot and English foreigners.
I have never been able to determine from which part of Ireland William
Carlile and his wife Sarah came from, until just recently, when I was
researching James Neal (Neel) Carlile (Pueblo County Colorado
Industrialist), the son of William Carlile and Nancy Ellen Whitcraft, and
grandson of William and Sarah. In some paperwork about the life of James
Neal Carlile, there is the mention of our immigrant William Carlile as
being from Ballynahinch, Ireland.
I thought this was great news, until I found that there are several
Ballynahinch, Ireland locales, that are listed as townlands or Baronies as
follows:
Ballynahinch, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Ballynahinch, a town in County Down, Northern, Ireland
Ballynahinch, a barony in County Galway, Republic of Ireland
Ballynahinch, a townland in County Galway, Republic of Ireland
Ballynahinch, a townland in Coutny Langford, Republic of Ireland
Ballynahinch, a townland in County Offaly, Republic of Ireland
Ballynahinch, a townland in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
Given the history of the Scots-Irish, I tend to believe that our Carlile
ancestors were probably from Northern Ireland, although County Langford and
County Cavan border each other, and if William Carlile's wife Sarah is
truly from County Cavan, then perhaps our Carlile family resided in County
Langford at one time.
I also discovered that the Carlile family in Pueblo, Colorado were thought
to be Presbyterians, and there is a mention of this in some of the history
of this family in Colorado. If anyone has any additional information please
contact me. Thank you very much.