History of the Carlile family

4 HISTORY OF THE CARLILE FAMILY.
The bell is now in the Observatory Museum at Dumfries. 1 William
died about 1463, leaving three sons, John, Adam, and James, and a
daughter, Margaret, married to the third Baron Drumlanrig. 2 John,
the eldest son of William, was married about 1432 to Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn. She died before
1436. In the nineteenth century a Miss Mary Manuela Kirkpatrick
of this family married a Spaniard, Don Cipriano (afterwards Conde
Montijo and Duque de Peneranda) and became the mother of Marie
Eugenie de Guzman y de Portocarrero, Condesa de Teba, Marquesa
de Moya, etc., and now widow of Napoleon III, Emperor of the
French. 3 John was knighted about 1449, was Keeper of Lochmaben
Castle, and held the office of Master of the Queen's Stable. Adam,
the second son, was the ancestor of the Paisley Carliles, and is dealt
with later [post p. 5).
This Sir John Carlyle was active in suppressing the rebellion
of the Earls of Douglas in Annandale in 1455, and received the
lands of Pettinain or Pettynane in Lanarkshire for the share he
took in the battle of Arkinholm (now Langholm in Eskdale), and
for taking the Earl of Ormond prisoner. In 1470 or 147 1, James III
raised him to the peerage as Lord Carlyle of Torthorwald, with
remainder to his heirs male, 4 and he took his seat in Parliament on
6 May, 147 1 , in Edinburgh. By a Charter of 3 December, 1473,
the town of Torthorwald was erected into a free burgh of barony
to be called the town of Cairleille or Carlyle, and markets and fairs
were established. Thereafter the Castle of Torthorwald appeared
as the Castle of Carlyle, and the parish church of Torthorwald was
described as the Church of Carlyle. 5 The burgh of Carlyle was
about ^y miles W.N.W. from the city of Carlisle. In modern times
the name Torthorwald has been resumed in respect of the hamlet,
and Carlyle as a local name is extinct. Lord Carlyle of Carlyle went
to France on a mission for the Scottish government in 1477, and as
1 Mc Dowall's History of Dumfries, third edition, p. 164.
2 Lineage of Queensberry, Marquess of, Burke's Peerage.
3 Almanack de Gotha, 1908, p. 20.
4 Nicholas Carlisle's Family History, at p. 107.
5 The Scots Peerage, 1905, vol. ii, p. 384.