The daughter of Andrew Sym, merchant, and Grizel Dunlop; she married the Paisley manufacturer John Wilson and was the mother of the poet and essayist John Wilson; her brother was Robert Sym, the “Timothey Tickler” of Blackwood's.

REFERENCES TO Margaret Wilson [née Sym]:

Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 17 January 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)