Dr. William Carlyle
William Carlyle, M.D.
b. 1685 · d. 1744
Surgeon of Carlisle, England; father of John Carlyle 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 … of Alexandria. Descended from the Limekilns branch of the Carlyles of Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire.
Dr. William Carlyle was born in 1685 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, the son of Adam Carlyle of Limekilns (1638–before 1700) and Grizel Menzies of Culteraws. He was a surgeon of Carlisle and a member of “a family which had been settled at and possessors of Murraythwaite since about the year 1421, and derive paternally from the ancient family of Cockpool, from whom the Murrays, Earls of Annandale (now extinct), were descended” [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
On 7 October 1714 he married Rachel Murray Carlyle Rachel Murray Carlyle b. 1692 · d. 1742 Of the Murrays of Murraythwaite, Dumfriesshire; mother of of Alexandria. of Murraythwaite, Dumfriesshire. Their ten recorded children, born between 1715 and 1733, included George Carlyle, M.D., of Carlisle (eldest); the second surviving son John Carlyle 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 … , who emigrated to Virginia about 1740; and several infants who died young. Dr. William Carlyle died 3 July 1744 in Carlisle.
The Spencer 1910 compilation reproduces a portrait of Dr. William Carlyle from the family papers.
Sources
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Richard Henry Spencer, "The Carlyle Family," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3 (January 1910), pp. 201-212; expanded as Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle House and Its Associations (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910). The foundational Carlyle genealogy.
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