Sarah Fairfax Carlyle
Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle
b. 1728 · d. 1761
Second daughter of William Fairfax William Fairfax b. 1691 · d. 1757 Colonial-era owner and builder of (c. 1741); cousin and Virginia agent of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck. President of the … of Belvoir; in 1748 married 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 … , anchoring the Carlyles into the Fairfax network. Her sister Anne Fairfax was the wife of Lawrence Washington of Mount Vernon (George Washington’s half-brother).
Sarah Fairfax was born in 1728, the second daughter of the Hon. William Fairfax William Fairfax b. 1691 · d. 1757 Colonial-era owner and builder of (c. 1741); cousin and Virginia agent of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck. President of the … of Belvoir on the Potomac (Chief Justice of the Bahamas, agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary, member and President of the Council of Virginia) and his first wife Sarah (Walker) Fairfax of Salem, Massachusetts [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
Her siblings included George William Fairfax of Belvoir (Washington’s boyhood neighbour); Anne Fairfax (wife of Lawrence Washington of 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Five-farm plantation on the Potomac owned by George Washington from 1761 until his death in 1799; home to Washington, his family, and more than three hundred enslaved people. … , George Washington’s elder half-brother); and William Henry Fairfax of the 28th British Regulars, killed with Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham on 13 September 1759. Sixteen months after losing her younger brother on the Plains of Abraham, Sarah herself died on 22 January 1761, “a lady of a most amiable Character, endowed with excellent qualities and her death is (was) universally lamented by all who had the pleasure of her Acquaintance” [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
Her 1748 marriage to John Carlyle produced at least three children who survived to adulthood: Sarah Carlyle Herbert 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 . , who married William Herbert; Anne Fairfax Carlyle 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), who married Henry Whiting; and infants who died young. Carlyle remarried — to Sybil West Carlyle Sybil West Carlyle Second wife of ; daughter of Hugh and Sybil (Harrison) West. Mother of , the fifteen-year-old cadet in Lee's Legion killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781. — within a few years of her death.
Associated places
- 1753–1761
Sarah Fairfax Carlyle, first wife of John Carlyle, lived at the Carlyle House from its 1753 completion until her death on 22 January 1761.
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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