William Carleton
(infant; c. 1778–1780 reported)
BIRTH
c. 1778 (reported; unconfirmed)
PLACE
DEATH
In infancy; c. 1780 reported (unconfirmed)
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Maria Howard
(1753-1836)
BROTHER
Lancelot Carleton
(1779?–1780?)
SISTER
Frances Carleton
(1785–1812)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
William Carleton was a son of British commander Guy Carleton, later Lord Dorchester, and Lady Maria Howard. Family pedigrees list him among their children and record that he died in infancy, as did his brother Lancelot. His siblings included Christopher, George, Frances and Richard Carleton. The family links identify this child, rather than the Irish novelist born in 1794. His short life left no documented adult career; precise birth and death dates need parish confirmation.
EARLY LIFE
William Carleton was a son of Guy Carleton and Maria Howard. Peerage-derived family accounts list him among their children and state that he died in infancy. Some compiled local histories report 1778–1780, but those years require confirmation in original records.
William Carleton, a son of Guy Carleton and Maria Howard, died in infancy and had no adult career. The checked family genealogy gives neither his birth date nor his death date. He must be distinguished from the Irish novelist of the same name, whose books, employment and marriage belong to a different life.
CAREER
DEATH
William Carleton was a son of British commander Guy Carleton, later Lord Dorchester, and Lady Maria Howard. He must be distinguished from the Irish novelist of the same name, whose books, employment and marriage belong to a different life. William Carleton died in infancy, but the family evidence does not establish a confirmed date or medical cause. The approximate year attached to the record remains unverified. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
William Carleton, the infant son of Guy Carleton and Lady Maria Howard, not the Irish novelist. No dedicated biography was identified. All five selections are explicitly related reading about his father, family context or his father’s Canadian service, not biographies of the child. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, biographical reference and related studies clearly labelled.
1. General Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester: Soldier-Statesman of Early British Canada — Paul David Nelson. [Related family biography of his father] Find on Amazon
2. Guy Carleton: A Biography — Paul R. Reynolds. [Related family biography of his father] Find on Amazon
3. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V: 1801–1820 — Francess G. Halpenny (editor). [Related biographical reference for his father] Find on Amazon
4. Canada and the American Revolution — George M. Wrong. [Related history of his father’s service] Find on Amazon
5. The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America's War of Liberation in Canada, 1774–1776 — Mark R. Anderson. [Related history of his father’s service] Find on Amazon
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