Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Children:
  1. Sir Alexander NAPIER Birth: 1 Death: Before 15 Feb 1473/4
  2. Robert NAPIER Birth: 2 Death: After 1462

Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VI p[0-9]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
1454 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1463]
abt 1454 [Ref: SP VI p404]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1463, SP VI p404]
Research Notes:
Burgess of Edinburgh [Ref: SP VI p403]

1418-48: extensive dealings in wool [Ref: SP VI p403]

1434: had monetary transactions with King James I, and in security obtained a charge over the lands of Merchiston [Ref: SP VI p403]

acquired the lands of Merchiston, near Edinburgh, originally pledged to him for a crown debt in 1434 [Ref: Burke Peerage p1463]

1436: Provost of Edinburgh [Ref: Burke Peerage p1463]



Pedigree of Alexander NAPIER
Alexander NAPIER



Descendants of Alexander NAPIER
1. Alexander NAPIER m.

2nd generation

2. Sir Alexander NAPIER m. Elizabeth LAUDER
m. Elizabeth LAUDER

3rd generation

4. John NAPIER m. Elizabeth MENTEITH
m. Elizabeth MENTEITH father: Sir Murdoch MENTEITH mother: Christian MURRAY
7. Janet NAPIER m1. Sir James EDMONSTOUN m2. Alexander HEPBURN m3. Adam HUME
m. Sir James EDMONSTOUN
m. Alexander HEPBURN father: Sir Patrick HEPBURN, Lord Hailes mother: Ellen WALLACE
m. Adam HUME

4th generation

10. Archibald NAPIER m1. Catherine DOUGLAS m2. Elizabeth CREICHTOUN m3. Margaret CAMPBELL
m. Catherine DOUGLAS father: Sir William DOUGLAS
m. Elizabeth CREICHTOUN
m. Margaret CAMPBELL father: Sir Colin CAMPBELL mother: Margaret ROBERTSON
13. William NAPIER m.
14. Alexander HEPBURN m. Isobel WARDLAW
m. Isobel WARDLAW
16. Agnes HEPBURN m. William LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston
m. William LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston father: James LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston mother: Elizabeth FLEMING

5th generation

25. Sir Alexander NAPIER m. Janet CHISHOLM
m. Janet CHISHOLM father: Edmund CHISHOLM
30. Margaret LIVINGSTON m. John HAY, Lord Hay Of Yester
m. John HAY, Lord Hay Of Yester father: John HAY, Lord Hay Of Yester mother: Elizabeth DOUGLAS
31. Alexander LIVINGSTON, Lord Livingston m1. Janet STEWART m2. Agnes DOUGLAS m3. Jeanne De PIEDEFER
m. Janet STEWART father: Alexander STEWART, Earl Of Buchan mother: Margaret RUTHVEN
m. Agnes DOUGLAS father: Sir John DOUGLAS, Earl Of Morton mother: Janet CRICHTON
m. Jeanne De PIEDEFER