Grisell Baillie was born at her family home,
Mellerstain House in the
Scottish Borders, on 4 April 1822, and baptised on 6 June 1822. She was the youngest of the eleven children of George Baillie of Jerviswood, MP for
Berwickshire, and Mary Pringle, daughter of Sir James Pringle, Baronet of Stichill. In Bowden Church a new communion table was given in her memory. It was said of her that ‘
She was beautiful, educated, gracious and above all a woman of deep faith, dedicated to the service of others. Not content with daily visits to the sick, teaching in Sunday School, the holding of meetings for young women, the organizing of bazaars to support foreign missions and so forth; she also provided a water supply for the village of St Boswells at her own expense and paid for the building of a new bridge across the Tweed.’ == Brothers and sisters ==