Re: The Lords Napier: Ancestors of HRH The Duchess of York? or, Who was Capt. Peter William Napier, R.N. Commissioner of the Port and Harbour of Quebec?

On Dec 28, 5:03 pm, "R C" <leliw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In Ontarian Families: Genealogies of United-Empire-Loyalists and Other
Pioneer Families of Ontario.

(Edward Marion Chadwick), 1895, p. 19,

it states:

"Allan Macnab, m. Anne, dau. of Peter-William Napier, Capt. RN, Commissioner
of the Port and Harbour of Quebec, and had issue"

(among whom was Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st  Bart, Prime Minister of the
United Province of the Canadas (aka Canada)(N.B. WARG et al., not PM of
Upper Canada, but of the successor colony, which was created as a result of
Radical Jack's famous "Durham Report", by the union of Upper and Lower
Canada in 1841).)

This Capt. Peter William Napier, R.N. is of interest because he could
provide ancestry dating back to the mediaeval period if another account of
his origins were borne out:

"The Scottish Nation", William Anderson,  1863, p. 53

"Allan Macnab.married Anne, youngest daughter of Capt. William Napier,
commissioner of the port of Quebec, of the family of Lord Napier"

Sometimes he appears only as William Napier; elsewhere, for example, the
Canadian Dictionary of National Biography, he is referred to as Peter Napier
(in articles about various others, though he has no separate entry, alas).

I wonder if anyone can account for this statement of his being "of the
family of Lord Napier"? Is this simply clannishness, or a verifiable
genealogical fact?

Many thanks,

Richard

This family is behind HRH the Duchess of Cornwall (i.e. Camilla). See
http://www.wargs.com/royal/camilla.html.


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