Elizabeth (of Torthorwald) Carlyle

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• Name	Elizabeth (of Torthorwald) Carlyle
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I90303	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2013

  
  

  Family ID

  F76377

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  Family
  Children	1. Sir George (of Madington) Douglas   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Lord James (6th of Torthorwald, Baron Carlyle) Douglas   d. Aft 1622
  Family ID	F75663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  After a long litigation at a ruinous expense, and the barony of Carlyle was, on the death of the fourth lord in 1580, found to belong to his grand-daughter, Elizabeth, who thus succeeded to the peerage, in her own right. A charter was granted to George Douglas, second legitimate son of George Douglas of Parkhead, of the barony of Carlyle, &c., in the counties of Dumfries and Lanark, dated on the last day of February, 1594. It is supposed that he had acquired that estate from his brother Sir James, who, as above stated, married the heiress of the title and estates, and had three sons, Sir James, Archibald, and John, the two latter of whom died without issue.