Nielsen Hayden genealogy
John Napier
Abt 1432 - Bef 1487 (~ 55 years)-
Name John Napier [1] Birth Abt 1432 [2, 3] Gender Male Alternate death Bef 3 Nov 1487 [2] Death Bef 31 Dec 1487 [3] Person ID I35603 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS Last Modified 12 Sep 2021
Father Alexander Napier, b. Abt 1408, of Merchistoun, Edinburgh, Scotland 
d. Between 16 Nov 1473 and 15 Feb 1474 (Age ~ 65 years) Mother Elizabeth Lauder, b. Abt 1412 d. Aft Mar 1451 (Age ~ 39 years) Marriage Abt 1430 [2, 3] Family ID F20908 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Menteith, b. Abt 1438 d. Between 1507 and Jan 1510 (Age ~ 69 years) Marriage Abt 26 Mar 1456 [3] Notes - Date of marigatum.
Children + 1. John Napier, b. Abt 1461, of Balcormo, Fife, Scotland d. Between 11 Sep 1512 and 18 Jun 1515 (Age ~ 51 years)Family ID F20906 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Sep 2021
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Notes - 3rd of Merchistoun. Provost of Edinburgh in 1471 and 1484. He served in the households of James II and James III, became a Lord of Council, and sat in the parliament of 1471.
John Napier (~1432-1487) = Elizabeth Menteith (1438-1510)
Archibald Napier (~1460-~1521) = Katherine Douglas (~1460->1480)
Alexander Napier (d. 1513)
Alexander Napier (~1509-1547) = Annabella Campbell (1512-1575)
Archibald Napier (~1534-1608) = Janet Bothwell (~1530-1563)
John Napier (~1550-1617), inventor of logarithmic calculation
- 3rd of Merchistoun. Provost of Edinburgh in 1471 and 1484. He served in the households of James II and James III, became a Lord of Council, and sat in the parliament of 1471.
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Sources - [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
- [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.
- [S2476] Adrian Benjamin Burke, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland." The Genealogist 27:28, 27:163, 2013; 28:58, 2014.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.