History of the Carlile family

INTRODUCTION. 7
Robert, or Herbert, of Bridekirk's third son was Lodowick
Carlell, or Carliell, courtier and playwright during the reigns of
Charles I and II. He was Keeper of Richmond and St. James's
Parks, and was buried at Petersham. 1 Thomas Dekker, the dramatist
(1570 circ — 1637), dedicated one of his plays to Lodowick, who is
addressed as "the noble lover (and deservedly beloved) of the
Muses." [Match nice in London, 1631).
We now return to the important statement that Adam, Baillie
of Annan, ancestor of the Paisley family, was second son of Adam
and Blanch of Bridekirk. This fact was overlooked by Nicholas
Carlisle when writing his family history. He says : - " The
Carlyles of Annan (which covers ' Paisley ') are descended from
the Bridekirk family, whom they considered their chief," but he
does not shew the connexion. We are indebted for the discovery
of the missing link to Miss C. L. Johnstone, a member of the old
Dumfriesshire family of Johnstone of Galabank. 3 Adam Carlyle,
Baillie of Annan, married Janet Muirhead, and died in 1685 (see
Biographical Notice). His eldest son, James Carlyle, married
Margaret Spence, and left an eldest son John, who removed to
Paisley, changed the spelling of his name to Carlile, and became
the founder of the Paisley Carliles, the further history of which
family is recorded in the accompanying Biographies and Tables of
Pedigree. We may mention that James and Margaret Carlyle had
a younger son, Thomas, who was the ancestor of the Carlyle family
now living at Waterbeck, Ecclefechan.
The relationship of Thomas Carlyle of Chelsea, essayist and
historian, to the Paisley Carliles is considered in Note C to this
Introduction {post p. 13).
We have now shewn the Carlyles springing from the Royal
House of Scotland, moving into the north of England, and becoming
1 Life of Lodowick Carliell, by Chas. H. Gray (of Kansas), Chicago University Press, 1905,
pp. 40 and 43.
2 Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Carlisle, 1822, p. 198.
:1 See her Historical Families of Dumfriesshire, 2nd Ed., Dumfries, Anderson & Son, 1889, p. 169
(Note), supplemented by a correspondence between Miss Johnstone and Col. E. Hildred Carlile, M.P.,
to which we are permitted to refer.