Gloriana Margaretta McAdam

"Georgina Keith McAdam (1789-1869) was the third daughter and sixth child of John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836).3 At the time of her birth the family lived at the estate of Sauchrie, in the Carrick Hills of the parish of Maybole, in the vicinity of Ayr. Her father was an active Ayrshire landowner, occupying himself in public affairs and with his business interests, both as associate of Keith Stewart of Glasserton and as manager, and later proprietor, of the tar kilns at Muirkirk. The tar kiln adventure proved to be costly, leading, after a protracted rear-guard action, to the sale of Sauchrie and the removal of the family to England when Georgina was ten.
Georgina never married. She was handicapped from the age of seven, 'when she had fallen asleep, after playing in a hayfield, on damp ground, the result of which was a rheumatic fever and deafness, which trial she bore with great skill and patience, never appearing as tho' she were deaf and shewing interest in all that was going on.' This account is from 'Aunt George' , an affectionate memoir by Elizabeth Steuart, whose grandmother Gloriana (Grizzelle) was sister of John Loudon McAdam.4 Georgina, she recorded, accompanied her father on his many trips around the country, even in temporary residences away from home … where the uncertain temper of the beautiful wife made absences very agreeable.' So Georgina, spending so much time at her father's side, became the repository of the family story, and of the allegedly unworthy part played in it by John McAdam of Craigengillan. But family stories are apt to be shaped and polished over the years, subject to embellishment and lapses of memory."

'History of the Waterhead McAdams and the McAdams of Craigengillan' (1854), http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/McAdam/jmcadam-losswat.htm