Sir William Milliken Napier 8th Bart.

Son of Col. Robert John Napier and great-grandson of James Milliken II (d. 1776).

1. Sir William Milliken Napier of Napier and Milliken, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Baronet, b. 1788, married 1815, Elizabeth Christian, 5th daughter of John Stirling, Esq. of Kippenross, Perthshire: 2 sons and 1 daughter. Succeeded to the baronetcy of Nova Scotia, which had been originally conferred on the first Lord Napier, 2 March 1627.

2. Member of Glasgow gentry. Active in relief of unemployed at Kilbarchan. Chairman of Renfrewshire Central Railway [Scotland] and member of Provisional Committee of London and Edinburgh Direct.

3. Descendant [great-great-grandson] of James Milliken of Milliken (?-1741) and his wife, Mary Stephen, who had an 'opulent fortune' in St. Kitts, where she had a large estate which came with her to the family of Milliken. James Milliken I (d. 1741) was a partner in the South Sugar-house, on west side of the Stockwell in Glasgow. He was succeeded by his son James Milliken II (d. 1776), who married Jane M'Dowall. James II and Jane Milliken's daughter Jane married William Napier of Culcreuch. Their son Col. Robert John Napier succeeded his grandfather James II.

1. http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/napier.htm [accessed 04/02/2013].

2. Times 11/08/1819 p. 3; Times 23/10/1845 p. 3.

3. John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878), LXXIII. Milliken House, reproduced at http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou073.htm [accessed 04/02/2013], which gives 1836 as the date of the rebuilding of Milliken House.