When Constance Noel Adams was born on 25 December 1903, in Raetihi, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, her father, Ernest William Adams, was 38 and her mother, Ellen Eliza Philps, was 31. She married Frederick Charles Cossey in 1925, in Raetihi, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand. She lived in Henderson, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand in 1925. She died on 3 August 1982, in Taihape, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, at the age of 78, and was buried in Purewa Cemetery, Meadowbank, Auckland, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.