Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
NameJohn NAPIER 209
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Anne Russell the second daughter was married to John the second son of Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston in Scotland who in 1513 fell on Flodden Field by a sister of Robert Stewart earl of Athol This distinguished house bore for its arms Argent a saltire engrailed between four roses gules and had for its earliest known ancestor that John de Napier who died in 1280 in the latter years of the reign of Robert Bruce The husband of Anne Russell was descended in the ninth degree from him they fixed their residence at Swyre near Berwick and there became the parents of a numerous progeny well known afterwards amongst the English baronetage.