Elizabeth was illegitimate. She was adopted into the family of her aunt Elizabeth Nairn.
Catherine was a farm servant and the father of her child was a ploughman, John Ramsay, they were both working at Dollar Mains, Riccarton.
Sources
Statutory Registers of Scotland, Births, Kilmaurs 598/74
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth: