Thomas Carlyle Birthplace Museum.
"In a house which his father, a mason, had built with his own hands,
Thomas Carlyle was born on December 4th, 1795. His mother, Margaret Aitken, "a woman of the fairest descent, that of the pious, the just and
wise," was the second wife of James Carlyle, and Thomas was the eldest of
their nine children."
Extract from "Thomas Carlyle" (Open Library)
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