The 1822 book on the Ancient Family of Carlisle, page 311 says: "There are three families of the name Carlell or Carlill, -- or, as it has been ignorantly written and pronounced Carlin, -- all who have been settled, for time immemorial in the Parish of Elloughton, -- and who, although not conscious of any Relationship to each other may, by presumption, from their immediate neighborhood, be supposed originally to spring from the same stock."