History of the Carlile family

INTRODUCTION. n
(2a.) Edward of Limekilns. There is no evidence of the existence
of this alleged third son. The Limekilns family appear
to have been cadets of the Bridekirk family. 1
Notwithstanding this, however, the Rev. Joseph Dacre Carlyle,
b.d., Oriental Scholar and Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who was
of the Limekilns family, interested himself about the year 1796 in
the revival, in his own person, of the dormant title, Lord Carlyle,
but he abandoned all thoughts of the peerage on the death, in 1798,
of his only son. At the time when Nicholas Carlisle wrote his
family history (1822) he was of opinion (p. 141) that the right to
the title would pass to William Carlyle, of Newton Aircl, also a
member of the Limekilns family, but this opinion has been shewn
to be incorrect by, among others, the late Mr. Thomas J. Carlyle,
of Waterbeck, who wrote a Review of Nicholas Carlisle's book in
1881. 2 William Carlyle, of Newton Aird, who was born in 1759,
died leaving an only son Thomas (b. 1803), who was a member of
the Scottish Bar, and later on Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic
(" Irvingite ") Church. In Irving's division of the world into twelve
parts, named after the twelve tribes of Israel, this Thomas Carlyle
was Apostle of the tribe of Simeon (North Germany). Thomas,
the historian, called him his " double goer." 3 Thomas, of the
Scottish Bar, died on 28 January, 1855, and was buried at Albury,
Surrey. His collected writings were published in 1878. His two
sons, Archibald and Hildred Edward, are both dead without male
issue. The Limekilns branch would appear to be now extinct in the
male line, so that it is a matter of academical interest only whether
that branch was descended from a son of Michael, fourth Lord
Carlyle, or whether it was a junior branch of the Bridekirk family.
The third son of Michael, fourth Lord, was: —
(3.) John of Boytath. George Carlyle, a descendant of this family,
was found (in effect) by the House of Lords on 21 February,
1770, to be heir male of Michael, fourth Lord Carlyle. George
1 See Scots Peerage, 1905, ii, p. 391. - Published at the office of the Dumfries Standard.
3 See The Athenceum, 14th May, 1881, and Henry Gray Graham's Literary and Historical
Essays, 1908 (preface).