History of the Carlile family

INTRODUCTION.
€arly f&tstory of dje Carltle iFamtlp*
^ ^^S HE Carlile Family, there is reason to believe, takes its
origin in the Royal House of Scotland, and, as will later
appear, has been connected by marriage with the Royal
House of England and with that of France.
There has been considerable uncertainty with regard to the
early Kings of Scotland, but we may claim that doubts come to an
end, to a great extent, with the accession of the Scottish King
Kenneth Mac Alpine to the Pictish throne in a.d. 844. 1 With that
date, then, we may be content to begin the History of the Carlile
Family, which, for the first 200 years, is the History of the Scottish
Royal Family.
Kenneth Mac Alpine united the Picts and Scots, and, in effect,
established one kingdom for Central Scotland. He died in 860,
leaving a son, who came to the throne in 863, and is known as
Constantine I. He died in 877, leaving a son, Donald II, who
reigned 889 — 900. Donald had a son, Malcolm I, who reigned
943 — 954. Malcolm's son, Kenneth II, reigned 971 — 995, and later
came his son, Malcolm II, who reigned 1005 — 1034. Malcolm II
had a daughter, Bethoc, or Beatrice, married to a Chieftain, Crinan,
or Cronan, who was either secular Abbot of Dunkeld, or Abthane
(Superior Lord) of Dul (near Loch Tay) and Steward of the Isles.
Crinan and Bethoc are supposed to have had two sons, the elder
1 See The Historians' History of the World (1907), vol. xxi ; and W. F. Skene's Celtic Scotland, vol. i.