When Margaretha Peyer was born on 28 March 1720, in Bergdietikon, Aargau, Switzerland, her father, Melchior Peyer, was 36 and her mother, Margaretha Lips, was 31. She married Hans Jakob Hug in 1753, in Dietikon, Zürich, Switzerland. She died on 11 September 1781, at the age of 61.