When John Luckwell was born on 19 October 1868, his father, Joseph Luckwell, was 37 and his mother, Jane Kember Lloyd, was 37. He married Mary Elizabeth Birch on 19 September 1893, in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1871. He died on 3 June 1949, in Sangudo, Lac Ste. Anne County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 80.