Carlyle Fairfax Whiting

Carlyle Fairfax Whiting was born 20 March 1778 in Gloucester County, Virginia, on the day his mother Anne Fairfax Carlyle Person Anne Fairfax Carlyle b. 1761 · d. 1778 Second surviving daughter of and ; married of Gloucester County, Va., in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son was born. died in childbirth at seventeen ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book . His father Henry Whiting Person Henry Whiting b. 1748 · d. 1786 Of Gloucester County, Virginia; in 1777 married (Anne Fairfax Carlyle), second daughter of . Widowed at twenty-nine the day his only son was born. raised him in Gloucester County until Henry’s own death in 1786, after which Carlyle Fairfax was an orphan at eight, though provided for by his maternal grandfather’s estate.

Under John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … ’s 1780 will, the infant Carlyle Fairfax Whiting inherited several hundred acres of land in Berkeley County, Virginia, known as “Limekilns” — a tract Carlyle had purchased decades earlier and named after the family’s ancestral seat in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The land is in what is now Berkeley County, West Virginia; it remained out of the Phase 1 coverage area of this site but anchored the Whiting family’s nineteenth-century holdings ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

On 14 December 1797 he married Sarah Manly Little (b. 1 June 1776, d. 12 November 1835), daughter of Colonel Charles and Mary (Manly) Little. Spencer records nine children for the marriage, including Charles Henry Whiting (b. 1801), John Carlyle Whiting (b. 1804), Mary Matilda Whiting (b. 1806), Francis Beverly Whiting (b. 1807), George William Carlyle Whiting Person George William Carlyle Whiting b. 1809 · d. 1864 Fourth son of ; his 1838 marriage to Mary Anne De Butts Dulany of Welbourne, Loudoun County, joined the Carlyle-Whiting line into the Dulany family. (b. 1809, the Welbourne-Dulany branch), Fairfax Herbert Whiting (b. 1813), William Wilmer Whiting (b. 1815), Ellen Marr Whiting (b. 1817), and Norman Howard Whiting (b. 1820).

Carlyle Fairfax Whiting died 8 September 1831 — the fiftieth anniversary, almost to the day, of the Battle of Eutaw Springs at which his uncle George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle b. 1766 · d. 1781 Only surviving son of by his second wife ; inherited in 1780 at fourteen and was killed at fifteen at the Battle of Eutaw Springs as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion. had been killed.