Margaret Herbert Fairfax

Margaret Herbert was the eldest daughter of 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 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 . , granddaughter of 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 … of 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 … ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

In January 1800 she 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. (1762–1846), vesting Carlyle blood in the surviving British baronage of Cameron. Spencer records the named issue of the marriage as Albert Fairfax (b. 8 April 1802, d. 11 May 1835), father of Charles Snowden Fairfax 10th Lord Fairfax (b. 8 March 1829); Henry Fairfax of Ashgrove (b. 1804, killed in the Mexican War in 1847); and Orlando Fairfax MD (b. 1806), among others ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

Through this marriage the British Lords Fairfax of Cameron — Charles Snowden Fairfax (10th), John Contée Fairfax MD (11th), and Albert Kirby Fairfax (12th) — descend from 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 … in the maternal line. Margaret died in 1858, twelve years after her husband ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .