When Isabella May Darling was born on 6 November 1889, in Dummer, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, her father, Francis Robert Darling, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Elizabeth Middleton, was 21. She married Norman Mitchell Bolton on 22 October 1919, in Lakefield, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Peterborough, North Monaghan, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911.