Janet Chisholm

• Daughter of Sir Edmund Chisholm, 1st of Cromlix and Janet Drummond of Coldoch

Biographical Summary

"Janet, who married Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston, ancestor of the present Lord Napier and Ettrick, K.T. He fell at Flodden on the 1st September, 1513, and left issue, an only son Alexander Napier, who succeeded his father and carried on the representation of the family. She was thus the great-grandmother of John Napier, the inventor of Logarithms, who himself became united with the same family by marrying, as his second wife, Agnes, daughter of James Chisholm of Cromlix, by whom he had five sons, who founded families of their own, and five daughters, all of whom were respectably married. Janet Chisholm married, secondly, Sir Ninian Seton of Touch and Tillibody, by whom she had issue Sir Walter Seton, who succeeded his father and carried on the representation of that ancient House."

• SOURCE: History of the Chisholms, with genealogies of the principal families of the name; Alexander Mackenzie; 1891; page 193
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• Chisholm Genealogy: Being a Record of the Name from A. D. 1254; with Short, By William Garnett Chisholm - https://books.google.com/books?id=umE7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=Ro...