Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume 1, The Carlyle Family
p.564-565 etc;
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THE CARLYLE FAMILY.
By RICHARD HENRY SPENICER.
The Carlyle family, is one of the most ancient families of Great Britain, and
one which the Conqueror found in 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,
Carleil, Carlile, Carlisle and Carl),with which the earliest recorded members
of the family were connected, there is no trustworthy evidence of their
origin or their history before the year 1092, when King William Rufus overran
Cumberland, adding it to his English Kingdom, and being impressed with its
importance as a Border military station, began to rebuild and fortify the
town of Caerleol (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 as 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 Cumquinton, in the parish of
Wetherhal, Cumberland, and other lands, including Kirkliampton his principal
seat, belonged to one HILREDUS DE CAERLEOl or DE KARLEOL, a cognomen which
descended to his posterity. He is said to have married a granddaughter of
Waltheof the Earl of Northumberland. About 1130, "he is found rendering
accounts to the Exchequer of the King's manor at Carlisle, dealing also with
the wall of the city." He afterwards acquired Newbie-on-the-Moor. He was
succeeded by his son.
ODARD DE KARLEOL, who is stated to have been in the Castle of Carlisle in the
service of King Henry II., when the fortress was besieged by King William of
Scotland in 1174. He died before 1177, leaving at least two sons, Robert and
Richard.
Robert de Karleol, the eldest son, born about 1139, held the lands of
Locardebi or Lockerbie, in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, given to him
by Robert de Brus (Bruce) First Lord of Annandale, and they, seem to have
proved a cause of dispute between the grantor's son William de Brus, Second
Lord of Annandale and Adam de Karleol, the son of Robert. Robert de Karleol
is a witness to various writs by William de Brus after 1194. He died in
1209, leaving two sons Adam and Odard.
Among the Norman followers of the Conqueror Robert de Brus, Jardine and Comyn
were transferred to the north of England. Here these Norman settlers
intermarried with the Maxwells, Murrays, Carleils, Kirkpatricks, Irvings,
Grahams, Carrutherses and other families in Drumfriesshire, all of whom
played a distinguished part in Scottish public life.
Miss C. L. Johnstone in her "Historical Families of Durnfriesshire," 1889,
says -. "Early in the 12th century Robert de Brus held the title of the Lord
of the valley of Antian or Annandale. Between 1170 and 1180,William de Brus,
Second Lord of Annandale, granted lands to Adam de Caerleol, a native of the
soil, who held property in Cumberland and the lands of Newbie in
Dumfriesshire; and in a charter of Henry de Graeme, ancestor of the Duke of
Montrose, the district of Dumfriesshire from Wamphray, inclusive to Greistna
(Gretna) Greene, is granted about 1180, to David Carleil, Lord of
Torthorwald. "Twa score Carvels (Carleils) frae Cockpool" are mentioned in
an ancient ballad called "The Bedsman of Nithsdale," as having followed
Richard 1st. of England to the Crusades."
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Adam CARLEIL referred to in his uncle's will in Nov. 1500, and by his cousin
Elizabeth Carleil in 1516. He had a charter of Brydekirk from his uncle John
First Lord Carleil on 7 May 1499. It was apparently he who, under Papal
dispensation 17 Feb. 1500, married Ellen, daughter of Simon Carruthers of
Mouswald, and his wife Catherine Carleil.
(The Scots Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. 1905.)
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Adam Carlile Of Limekilns, son of Edward and Margaret (Young) Carlile, b.
1638, m. Grizel Menzies of Culteraws. Their children were:
1. John Carlyle of Limekilns.
2. Alexander Carlyle, who emigrated to Maryland prior to
17I2, and settled in Somerset County, where he became a large landholder and
m. 6 Sept. 1720, Margaret McAlister of that county. He died in 1726, leaving
two sons, Adam, b. 13 Feb. 1724,/5, and John, b. 28 Feb. 1725/6, d. s. p.
Adam Carlyle, the eldest son, after the death of his mother in 1733. went to
Scotland to live and m. Philadelphia Carruthers of Holmains. On the death of
his uncle John in 1742, he inherited Limekilns, but was ruined by the failure
of a bank at Ayr in 1766. His six sons, Alexander, Adam, John, James, George
and William.
3. Mary Carlyle m. David Murray of Beltriding
4. Margaret Carlyle m. Christopher Carruthers of Hardrigg
5. William Carlyle b. 1685 d. 3 July 1744, m.1714 Rachel Murray
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Adam Carleil the young Laird of Brydekirk had a charter of Lymekilns from
Michael Fourth Lord Carleil 24 Nov. 1559. He died 1581 leaving three sons
Third son *Edward Carlile of Lymekilns m. Grace Irving of Bonshaw. He died
before 1615, leaving two sons Adam and Alexander of Munaythwaite who was
living in 1637.
Adam the eldest son married Mary daughter of Francis Carruthers of Dormont.
He died before 1673 leaving three sons, Edward of Limekilns, Adam and John.
* Register of the Privy Council of Scotland 1522-1599
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