When Caroline Jane Barrable was born about 1855, in Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, William Barrable, was 23 and her mother, Mary Ann Flooks, was 23. She married James Scaife on 15 August 1878, in Molteno, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 10 February 1915, in Dordrecht, Chris Hani, Eastern Cape, South Africa, at the age of 60.