When George R. Barfett was born on 9 June 1863, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Rice Barfett, was 38 and his mother, Charlott Maria Knight, was 38. He married Kathleen Eleanor Gibbons on 28 April 1899. He lived in Newcastle, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1871. In 1901, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as . He died on 20 April 1926, in Newcastle, Clarington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 62, and was buried in Newcastle, Ontario, Canada.