History of the Carlile family

i2 HISTORY OF THE CARLILE FAMILY.
died (so far as is known) without a child, leaving two brothers,
Joseph and Lionel, who appear to have lived at Travalah,
Llan-Sannah, near Abergele, Co. Denbigh, of whom nothing
further is known. The suit which was decided by the House
of Lords in 1770 was commenced in order to ascertain the heir
male of the last of the Locharthur family {ante p. 10), who died
in 1763. The Limekilns family did not appear in the case,
which fact seems to shew that they did not consider themselves
to be senior to the Boytath family. Nicholas Carlisle does not
refer to any other members of the Boytath family as being
alive in his day.
(4.) Peter, of whom nothing is known except that he was alive in
1594.
Having exhausted the male descendants of the eldest son of John,
first Lord Carlyle, we come now to his younger sons and their
descendants.
John, first Lord Carlyle, had three younger sons; by the second
wife one, Robert of Pettynane, who left daughters but no son, and
by the third wife two, John and George, of whom Nicholas
Carlisle, at p. 95 of his book, mentions nothing later than the
year 1509.
Assuming then, as seems probable, that Joseph and Lionel, and
other members (if any), of the Boytath family, and Peter, son of
Michael, fourth Lord, and John the younger and George, younger sons
of John, first Lord Carlyle, all died without male issue, the claim to
the dormant Scottish peerage must be traced through the Bridekirk
family, that is to say, through Adam, younger brother of John, first
Lord Carlyle. It was at one time thought that the last male of the
Bridekirk family was Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, of Inveresk, who
died in 1805, but there is now reason to believe that Adam, head
of the Annan family, was not only a member of the Bridekirk
family, but was senior to the branch from which Dr. Alexander
Carlyle. of Inveresk, was descended [ante p. 6). It seems therefore
probable that the best claim to the dormant peerage is in the head
of the old Annan family, that is, in the heir male of John Carlile,