When Margaret Thomson Bain was born on 8 December 1841, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, William Bain, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Potter, was 30. She married James Glassford Gordon Glassford on 10 December 1861, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Monimail, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881 and Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 24 June 1901, in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 59.
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