Robina was born at 20 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow, on 23 January 1859.  Her father's occupation was given as grain merchant, and his business address was again given in the Post Office Directories as 257 Argyle Street. Robina married Andrew Ross Scott in Glasgow on 15 March 1881, and died in New York, U. S. A., on 27 January 1939.  Andrew, like Robina, was born in Scotland, and died in New York on 30 April 1941.  He was the youngest in a family of six.  The Scotts, like the Dunlops, were numerous in lowland Scotland.  According to one of his grandsons Andrew Ross Scott had been known to comment along the lines of, 'If my grandfather had been an eldest son instead of a youngest son, then I would have been the Duke of Buccleuch.'  The connection was probably remote, but it is quite possible that Andrew was related to the Duke of Buccleuch, the head of the Clan Scott. The couple had three children: George Norman (b. 1883), Thomas Dunlop (b. 1884) and Robina Dunlop (b. 1889). Andrew Ross Scott was involved in Glasgow's flourishing chemical industry.  About 1895 he started a company (the Scott-Vogt Chemical Company), based on a process for making chlorine.  The company failed, however, when some one else brought out a vastly better method for making chlorine from seawater.  He then joined the Stauffer Chemical Company and moved around quite a bit before finally transferring to the Chauncey, New York, works and living in the Bronx.  He served as Chief Chemist for Stauffer throughout the rest of his life. There are a large number of descendants living in the United States.  (Thanks are due for this information to Norman R Scott of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who compiled his family's tree.)

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