Scott, only daughter of Henry Shank of Castlerig and Glenniston, Fife and his wife Anna Maria was born in Bombay on 24 March 1816.
[1] On 28 Nov. 1844, she married Scottish antiquarian and army officer Sir James Sibbald David Scott (1814–1885), third baronet of Dunninald, Forfarshire.
According to the 1871 census, the couple appear to have had five of their seven children residing with them; Henrietta, Florence, Maria, Tibbald, and Lillian.
[2][3] Scott died at 18 Cornwall Gardens, Queen's Gate, Kensington, Middlesex on 8 April 1894.
[4] Her will proved on 30 July left effects of £6,234 to her son Sir Francis David Sibbald Scott and her daughter Henrietta.