When Caroline Mary Ann Flooks was born about June 1870, in Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, her father, John George Flooks, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Sloane, was 30. She married Edward John Holliday on 29 November 1887, in Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 17 October 1948, in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.