Mary Carlyle Aitken (1848–1879)
Mary Carlyle Carlyle (1879–1895)

Niece of Thomas Carlyle: daughter of his sister Jane and her husband James Aitken, painter and glazier in Dumfries. Cared for her uncle from 1866 until his death in 1881. Married her cousin Alexander Carlyle at The Hill, Dumfries, in 1879. Disagreed with James Anthony Froude about the publication of Carlyle’s reminiscences in 1881. Helped Charles Eliot Norton to edit Carlyle’s letters.