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1799. Janet Napier of Ballikinrain, his widow, died 1st May 1801 and was
buried in Killearn churchyard on the 4th of the same month.
Janet Napier of Ballikinrain and her husband, Robert Dunmore, had a large
family.
(1) Thomas Dunmore, born 19th March 1777. He rose to the rank of
Commissary General in the army and saw much active service. In 1807 he
served in Lord Cathcart's expedition to Copenhagen. In 1809 he was present
at the battle of Corunna, and thereafter at many of the engagements during the
Peninsular Campaign. He would have succeeded to his father's estates and
fortune had they not been unfortunately lost, Ballikinrain going by his grand-
father's settlement to a younger son. After his father's death, however, he
bought Kilfassit. This estate he left to his nephew, Captain Robert Dunmore
Napier of Ballikinrain. The Commissary General married in 182 1 Sarah,
daughter of Dr. Thomas Steel of Steelfield, Jamaica, and widow of Robert
Stirling, son of William Stirling of Keir. She died in 1823, leaving an only
daughter, Janet, who died unmarried in 1852. Thomas Dunmore died in 1856.
(2) Janet Dunmore, born 1778, married in 1813 John Dunlop of Keppoch,
and had issue.
(3) J°hn Dunmore Napier — of whom afterwards — born 1779.
(4) Helen Wilson Dunmore, born 1781, died unmarried.
(5) William Robert Dunmore, born 1782. He was an officer in the Hon.
East India Company's Navy, and died abroad in 1810. His son, Colonel
William Robert Dunmore, married Agnes Callander, daughter of Colonel George
Callander of Craigforth, and had an only child, Agnes Elizabeth, who married
Colonel Alexander Fergusson and had issue. Colonel Dunmore married, secondly,
the widow of Professor Connel of St. Andrews.
(6) George Dunmore, born 1786, was for a short time in the Royal Navy
and thereafter in the 22nd Madras Native Infantry. He died unmarried in
India in 181 S.
(7) Robert Dunmore Napier, of whom afterwards.
(8) Margaret Dunmore died unmarried at Montpellier, in France, 3rd
December 1826.
JOHN DUNMORE NAPIER, FIFTEENTH OF BALLIKINRAIN (UNMARRIED).
John Dunmore succeeded his mother in 1801 in terms of his grandfather's
settlement, under which Ballikinrain was settled on the second son of Janet
Napier and Robert Dunmore. He also assumed her surname. John Dunmore
Napier was an officer in the army, and served in Holland in the 85th Regiment.
He died unmarried at his house, Eaton Terrace, London, 3rd February 1821,
and was succeeded by his youngest brother Robert.