History of the Carlile family

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about 1794. In 1795 he got up a petition against the Seditious
Meetings Bill and the Treasonable Practices Bill, and this was
signed by 3000 inhabitants of Paisley, chiefly heads of families.
The result was that he became a marked man. His popularity,
however, returned in later life, and he was elected Provost of
Paisley, 1816 to 1818 and 1820 to 1822, and laid the foundation
stone of the new Court buildings in 1S18. He was also
interested in religious societies. He started a Paisley Branch
of the London Missionary Society, and assisted in forming
Sabbath Schools (for Bible teaching), and Sunday Schools (for
elementary education).
He suffered heavy losses in business during the early years
of the nineteenth century.
On 23 June, 1774, he married his second cousin, Janet,
daughter of Robert Birkmyre, of Inchinnan, co. Renfrew. She
was born in 1 75 1 , and died 7 May, 1826. There were ten
children of the marriage, of whom eight died in infancy or child-
hood, and two only survived him (Carlile, George, and Fleming,
Jean). His line is now extinct. He died on 20 October, 1829.
His private diary was discovered about 1S54, and was printed in
1863 (Glasgow, Thomas Smith), for private circulation, with a
portrait and with a preface by his nephew (Carlile, Warrand, the
first). A window has been erected to his memory and to that
of his brother (Carlile, James, the elder, of Paisley), in Paisley
Abbey Church by his great nephews, James William Carlile, and
James Stevenson.
Carlile, William Alexander, the younger son of the second
marriage of Carlile, Warrand, the first, was born in Jamaica in
1852. He settled in England and became a marine engineer, and
has all his life been a student of Science, and has contributed to
engineering papers in England and America. He has also written