History of the Carlile family

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from the narratives of Holy Scripture. There were also books
exclusively of " Scripture lessons."
In 1839 he ceased to be a Resident Commissioner of the
Irish Education Board, left his church in the hands of his
assistant, Dr. Kirkpatrick, and (1840) went to Parsonstown,
King's Co., to found a Protestant mission among the Roman
Catholics. The results of his work there are stated in his
pamphlet, Fruit Gathered from among Roman Catholics in
Ireland, published in 1848 (Nisbet). The average attendance
at morning service at his mission chapel was 80, that at the
Sunday School 50, 15 converts had died, and 5 other converts,
not members of the Church, but under the supervision of the
Scripture readers, had been made. Having regard to all the
circumstances, he seems to have considered these results to be
as good as he could expect. He died in Dublin on 31 March,
1854, in the seventieth year of his age. The funeral service
was conducted by Dr. Kirkpatrick in the Scots Church, St. Mary's
Abbey, Dublin, and the burial was at Parsonstown. He was
twice married. The first wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas
Beilby, merchant, of Birmingham. She died without issue. The
second wife was Jane, daughter of Bolton and Jane Wren, of
Kendal. She was born in December, 1799, and was brought
up in Dublin by her cousin, Mrs. Houghton, at whose house she
met her future husband. She has been described as naturally
diffident and silent, shy and retiring. They were married in 182 1.
She was much interested in education, and opened a school in
Dublin for children destined to be school teachers or governesses.
She died at Parsonstown in 1852, and was buried there. The
breakdown in her health was attributed to overwork and to
exposure in attempts to relieve the starving peasantry during the
potato famine. There were three children of the marriage, of
whom two are dead (see Carlile, Mary of Dublin, James Wren,
and William Warrand). The last work of her husband was the
writing of her memoir. This was published after his death as