When Winifred Rebecca Ellis Edmonds was born on 15 September 1893, in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Joseph Richard Hill Ellis, was 41 and her mother, Rebecca Adnum, was 32. She married Maurice James Marcusen on 16 January 1921, in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. She died on 26 May 1979, in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.