Anna Napier

Anna Napier was born in 1560 in Dumbartonshire, Scotland. She was the daughter of Robert Napier, 1st Laird of Culcreuch by Anna, daughter of Sir William Drummond, 3rd Laird of Riccarton.[1]

In 1595, at 34 years old, Anna Napier married Walter "of Disheour" Leckie, a younger son of Walter Leckie, 9th Laird of Leckie, at Leckie Hall, Stirlingshire, Scotland. They lived at Disheour Hall (today called "Dasher Farm") a property one mile west of Leckie Hall near Kipper, Stirlingshire, Scotland, just south of Loch Lomond. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Leckie, born April 1595, at Dasher/Disheour, near Leckie in Stirlingshire. No other children are reported for the couple. Walter Leckie died shortly thereafter, leaving Elizabeth to be raised by her grandfather and his second wife, whom he married in 1597 at 61 years old, Margaret Livingston. Widow Anna (Napier) Leckie lived at Dasher/Disheour near Kippen until February 28, 1656.[2]

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↑ The Red Book of Scotland - Napier of Culcreuch Dates are slightly off. ↑ "Name: Napier, Anna; Walter Leckie. Dates: 28 Feb 1656. Place: Deschoris Kippen, Stirling, Scotland. Book: Mort Roll from 1781 in the Register House, Edinburgh. (Death) Collection: Lanarkshire, Stirling, and Clackmannan: Commissariat Record of Lanark, Regist. 28 Feb. 1656 in Stirlingshire, Scotland." Cited on: Davis Family Tree FL OH - Anna Napier . See also 1595 marriage record: "Married: ext: Napier, Anna, spouse to Walter Leckie, of Deschoris, par. of Kippen, [died] 28 Feb 1656; Book: Marriages (Marriage) 1595 in Deschoris Kippen, Clackmannan, Scotland." Same Source.