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I will give you some quotes here from the book:
"Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle
House and its Associations " by Richard Henry Spencer. Published 1910 by Whittet
& Shepperson in Richmond, VA.
"The Carlyle family is one of the most ancient families of Great Britain and one
which the Conqueror foundin England at the Conquest, and a branch of which later was
ennobled in Scotland. Its origin was either British or Saxon, but which seems uncertain,
most probably British.
While the name is clearly derived from the town or district of Carlisle, Lugavellum of the
Romans, abbreviated by the Britons to Luel or Leol, to which was added the prefix Caer or
"City" - hence Caerleol, Karleol, Cairleil, Carlile, Carlisle and Carlyle - with
which the earliest recorded members of the family were connected, there is no trustworhty
evidence of their origin or their history before the year 1092, whem King William Rufus
overran Cumberland, adding it to his English Kingdom, and -------- began to rebuild and
fortify the town of Carleol (Carlisle) which had been destroyed by the Danes in 875, and
which was among the most ancient of the twenty-eight cities enumerated in history, the
name of the city, as well of the family, being variously spelt at different periods.
At or very shortly after the Conquest, the district wherein the town of Caerleol
(Carlisle) arose, and the manor of Comquinton, in the parish of Wetherhal, Cumberland, and
other lands, including Kirkhampton his principal, belonged to one Hildredus de Caerleol or
De Karleol.
Miss C. L. Johnstone in her "Historical Families of Dumpriesshire", originally
published dumfries, Scotland, 1889 and reprinted by Clearfield Company, Inc by
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland in 1996 and 1998
(ISBN:0-08063-4629-9) has a pedigree showing wherein Sir William Carlile (descended from
Malcolm II 1005-1034) shows married to Margaret Brus, sister of King Robert I (the Bruce)
d. 1327.
Hope this is of some help.