When Joseph Henry Danby was born on 17 May 1798, in Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland, his father, Edward Danby, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Willis, was 48. He married Sarah Wiltse DUE on 18 January 1826, in Leeds, Upper Canada, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 7 January 1873, in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lyndhurst, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.