Rachel Murray Carlyle

Rachel Murray was born in 1692 to a Murraythwaite family that “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] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book . On 7 October 1714 she married 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. , surgeon of Carlisle.

Nicholas Carlile, writing of her in the 1822 History of the Ancient Family of Carlisle, called her “the most handsome lady of her time in Annandale, and was celebrated for the beauty of her soft dark eyes, which descended to several of her offspring” ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

She and Dr. William Carlyle had ten recorded children, of whom several died in infancy. 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 … emigrated to Virginia about 1740. Rachel died in 1742.