Her father was the minister there but he died when she was very small and her mother went to live in Edinburgh.

[2] She worked as a governess for the Reverend Principal Nicoll and then took a similar role for Lord William Douglas, leaving that employment at the end of 1843.

[2] She returned to live with her brother,[2] William Grant of the Free Church in Ayr, and through him she met Daniel Edward who was a missionary to the Jews in Moldavia.

In 1867 her biography, Missionary Life Among the Jews in Moldavia, Galicia and Silesia, was published including some of her letters.

The biography had a preface by Alexander Moody Stuart[3] who was the convener of the Jewish Mission of the Free Church.