Anne Carlyle
Daughter of John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-born merchant, one of the founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what is now Fairfax Street. Carlyle was a … and sister of Sarah Carlyle Herbert Sarah Carlyle Herbert Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829. and George William Carlyle George William Carlyle d. 1781 Son of ; inherited in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War. ; documented in the Carlyle House family records.
Anne Carlyle was a daughter of the Scottish merchant John Carlyle and grew up at 121 North Fairfax Street 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … in the years before the Revolution [1] Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website . Detail about her life beyond the family record — her marriage, descendants, place of death — is sparse in the readily available sources; this entity is a research scaffold for the Carlyle House family-papers archive.
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Wikipedia, "Carlyle House," accessed 2026.
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