History of the Carlile family

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
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Carlile, Alexander, the elder, the fourth son of Carlile,
James, the elder, of Paisley, was born at Paisley in 1788,
and was educated privately. He adopted a commercial career,
and became associated with his father in the business of James
Carlile, Sons & Co., thread manufacturers, Paisley. In 181 7 he
married Frances (b. 1797), daughter of Robert Hatkin, of Alnwick,
and had six children ; see Carlile, James, the younger, of Paisley,
Robert, of Paisley, Sarah, Alexander, the younger, William, of
Budleigh Salterton; and Fraser, Frances Simpson. Mr. Alexander
Carlile was of literary tastes, and was one of the founders and part
proprietor of the Paisley Magazine, which appeared for one year
only, 1828. He wrote a song called " Wha's at the window, Wha,
Wha?" and published a volume of poems (7x4^ ins., 177 pp.)
dedicated to the Duke of Argyll, the longest poem being called
"God in Nature," and consisting of 38 pp (London, Arthur Hall,
Virtue & Co., 1S55). There is a portrait of Alexander Carlile in
Blair's Paisley Thread Industry (Paisley, Alexander Gardner,
1907). He died in i860, and was buried in Paisley Abbey.
His wife died in 1858.
Carlile, Alexander, the younger, the third son of Carlile,
Alexander, the elder, was born in 1823. He married in 1843,
and died in 1854, leaving one daughter, who married Mr. Gourley.
Carlile, Alfred Langton, the younger surviving son of
Carlile, John, of Houston, was born in London in 1851 and
went to Australia in 1853, and was educated at Hawthorn
Grammar School, near Melbourne. He went to Gipps Land
(S. E. Victoria) about 1875, and remained there for twenty years.
He is now in business at Auburn, near Melbourne, as a sworn
valuator and land agent. In 1887 he married Barbara Kate,
younger daughter of the late T. Brown, of Gipps Land, and has
had five children : — Oswald Langton, b. 1889, clerk in the
National Bank at Melbourne, fourth in Examination of Bankers'