When Matilda Selina Standley was born on 14 August 1862, in Campbelltown, South Australia, Australia, her father, Joseph Edward Standley, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Commer, was 27. She married Edward Langmead on 11 September 1888, in Kadina, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 4 December 1955, in South Australia, Australia, at the age of 93, and was buried in Kadina, South Australia, Australia.