When Ada Marion Kathleen Ellis Edmonds was born on 20 April 1891, in Eidsvold, Queensland, Australia, her father, Joseph Richard Hill Ellis, was 39 and her mother, Rebecca Adnum, was 30. She married Edward William Lovett on 19 May 1914, in Eidsvold, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 18 August 1968, in Theodore, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 77, and was buried in Theodore, Queensland, Australia.