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George William Carlyle Whiting

b. 1809 · d. 1864

Fourth son of 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 … ; his 1838 marriage to Mary Anne De Butts Dulany of Welbourne, Loudoun County, joined the Carlyle-Whiting line into the Dulany family.

Biography


George William Carlyle Whiting was born 5 July 1809, fourth son of 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 … and Sarah Manly (Little) Whiting [1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book . He was named for his great-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. , the fifteen-year-old cadet in Lee’s Legion killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781, and for his great-grandfather John Carlyle’s brother-in-law George William Fairfax of Belvoir.

On 24 December 1838 he married Mary Anne De Butts Dulany of Welbourne, Loudoun County, Virginia (b. 8 October 1818, d. 1 January 1894), daughter of John Peyton Dulany and Mary Anne (De Butts) Dulany — grand-niece of Benjamin Dulany Person Benjamin Dulany b. 1752 · d. 1816 Maryland-born merchant and planter with extensive landholdings on both sides of the Potomac, including Shuter's Hill west of Alexandria. His household straddled the social world of … . The marriage joined the Carlyle-Whiting line into the Dulany network and made Welbourne (the Dulany family seat in Loudoun County, outside this site’s Phase 1 coverage area) a center of nineteenth-century Carlyle-descendant family life.

Spencer records eleven children for the marriage, including: Julia Beverly Whiting; Clarence Carlyle Whiting (b. 1855, m. Marion Gordon Armistead); Alice Herbert Whiting (b. 24 November 1880’s marriage — her wedding date — 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 … , the Maryland Spencer-Hall descendant who compiled the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle family records); Neville Herbert Whiting (m. Margaret Herbert Hyde); Guy Fairfax Whiting MD; Richard Henry Dulany Whiting; and Maud Neville Whiting.

George William Carlyle Whiting died 17 December 1864, near the end of the Civil War.

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  1. 1.

    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.

    Book https://archive.org/details/carlylefamily00spen →

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