When Paul Laybourn was born on 7 January 1793, in Nafferton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Christopher Laybourn, was 48 and his mother, Margaret Ellen Newlove, was 35. He married Almira Palmer in 1816, in Clark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died on 19 January 1873, in Harmony, Clark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Harmony, Clark, Ohio, United States.