At the age of seventeen, Grisell Baillie
was married in Edinburgh to Sir Alexander Murray
of Stanhope.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Baillie, Grizel. “Introduction”. The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692-1733, edited by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, Edinburgh University Press; Scottish History Society, 1911, p. ix - lxxx.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Grisell Murray
Any happiness in GM
's marriage was short-lived; on this day she separated from her husband
and moved back into her parents' home.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Grisell Murray
According to Alexander Murray
(an unreliable witness), Grisell had a wandering eye.
Murray of Stanhope. http://www.murrayofstanhope.com.
It seems from the testimony of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the footman Arthur Gray, and a diarist named John Thomlinson that she...
