Few details of her life can be established; she is said to have married an Irish army officer called O'Neill, but was widowed and returned to Scotland.

[4] Aeneas MacDonald, who had been present at Glenfinnan, described her as a "widow, nearer fifty than forty [...] a genteel, well-looked handsome woman, with a pair of pretty eyes, and hair as black as jet.

[11][6][12] Such stories were intended to delegitimise the Jacobite cause by identifying it as the party of chaos and by suggesting its male leaders were cowards, morally bankrupt or otherwise inadequate.

[1] After the failure of the rising in 1746, the Cameron tenants in Morvern suffered from punitive actions by government militias, although the Glendessary family seem to have retained most of their property.

[1] A late 18th-century account by a local antiquary remembered her as "retaining [...] the striking remains of a graceful beauty" and as "rather melancholy", though an informed and intelligent conversationalist, noting that "politics was her favourite topic".

[17] During the 20th century the site of the estate became a golf course, and the house itself was demolished in 1958; however a horse chestnut tree was planted near the grave and a plaque set up in the same year.