The Carlyle family

The Alexandria Carlyles descend from Dr. William Carlyle Person Dr. William Carlyle b. 1685 · d. 1744 Surgeon of Carlisle, England; father of of Alexandria. Descended from the Limekilns branch of the Carlyles of Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire. (1685-1744), surgeon of Carlisle, England, and his wife Rachel Murray Carlyle Person Rachel Murray Carlyle b. 1692 · d. 1742 Of the Murrays of Murraythwaite, Dumfriesshire; mother of of Alexandria. (1692-1742) of Murraythwaite, Dumfriesshire. Their second surviving son 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 … (1720-1780) came to Virginia about 1741 as factor for the Whitehaven merchant William Hicks, settled at the tobacco-warehouse landing then called Belhaven, and in 1748 was one of the eleven trustees who reorganised it as Alexandria ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

John Carlyle’s two marriages produced eleven children, of whom three survived to leave Alexandria descendants:

• Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Eldest daughter of and ; her marriage to carried into the Herbert family. Mother of (held the house 1781-1827) and (m. Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax 1800); great-grandmother of . (by Sarah Fairfax), who married William Herbert (Sr.) Person William Herbert (Sr.) Anglo-Irish merchant of Alexandria; husband of and father of the children who carried and the Carlyle name into the Herbert, Norris, Fairfax-of-Ashgrove, and … and carried 121 North Fairfax Street Place 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 … into the Herbert family. Their son John Carlyle Herbert Person John Carlyle Herbert b. 1777 · d. 1846 Eldest grandson of via his mother and his father ; held from 1781 to 1827, the longest single ownership in the house's history. Member of Congress from Maryland 1816-1820. held the house from 1781 to 1827 and represented Maryland in Congress; their daughter Margaret Herbert Fairfax Person Margaret Herbert Fairfax d. 1858 Eldest daughter of and who in January 1800 married ; the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron line descends from her in the maternal line. married Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax Person Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax b. 1762 · d. 1846 Husband of ; grandfather of Charles Snowden Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The surviving British baronage of Cameron descends from this 1800 Alexandria marriage. in 1800, vesting Carlyle blood in the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron — the 10th, 11th, and 12th Lords all descend from this marriage.
• 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. (Anne Fairfax Carlyle, by Sarah Fairfax), who married 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. of Gloucester County in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Person Carlyle Fairfax Whiting b. 1778 · d. 1831 Only son of (Anne Fairfax Carlyle) and ; inherited the Berkeley County "Limekilns" tract under John Carlyle's 1780 will. Patriarch of the Carlyle-Whiting line down to the … was born. The Carlyle-Whiting line runs through Carlyle Fairfax Whiting’s son 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. (who married into the Dulany family of Welbourne) down to Richard Henry Spencer Person Richard Henry Spencer Maryland Spencer-Hall descendant who in 1880 married Alice Herbert Whiting, a great-granddaughter of ; author of the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle articles in the William and Mary College … , who married Alice Herbert Whiting in 1880 and compiled the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle genealogies on which this entry largely rests ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
• 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. (by Sybil West, John Carlyle’s second wife), born 27 May 1766, killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina on 8 September 1781 at age fifteen as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee’s Legion.

Slavery in the household

John Carlyle was an enslaver, as were William Herbert Sr., Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … , and most Carlyle in-laws across the colonial and antebellum generations. Carlyle’s estate inventory at his death in 1780 lists enslaved persons by first name only ^[2] Source 2 HABS Alexandria survey Government record ; the names, families, and post-emancipation lives of the people the Carlyle and Herbert households held in bondage are a research target for a separate pass against U.S. Census records, Freedmen’s Bureau records, and the Black-church and burial-ground records of post-war Black Alexandria.

Civil War service

Several Carlyle, Whiting, Herbert, and Fairfax descendants served as Confederate officers, including the Alexandria banker Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … (Col., 17th Virginia Infantry, surrendered Corse’s Brigade at Appomattox), and — outside Alexandria — Col. James Rawlings Herbert C.S.A., Eugene Fairfax C.S.A. (killed 2 May 1862), Randolph Fairfax C.S.A. (killed 13 Dec 1862), and Carlyle Fairfax Whiting C.S.A. (killed 3 Nov 1864) ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .