Sybil West Carlyle

Sybil West was the daughter of Hugh West and Sybil (Harrison) West of Fairfax County, Virginia, and married John Carlyle around 1761, soon after the death of his first wife Sarah Fairfax Carlyle Person Sarah Fairfax Carlyle b. 1728 · d. 1761 Second daughter of of Belvoir; in 1748 married , anchoring the Carlyles into the Fairfax network. Her sister Anne Fairfax was the wife of Lawrence Washington of Mount Vernon … in January of that year ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

The marriage produced four children of whom only one, 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. (b. 1765), survived childhood. George William was killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina on 8 September 1781 at age fifteen, serving as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee’s Legion. Through this line, Carlyle’s male issue ended — Spencer notes that George William, “had he lived, would have been entitled to the dormant baronage as Lord Carlyle, after the death of his first cousin Rev. Joseph Dacre Carlyle, B.D., the oriental scholar, who died without male issue in 1804” ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

Documentary detail about Sybil West Carlyle’s own dates is sparse in the readily available sources; this entity is a research scaffold for the Carlyle House and West-family archives.