When Christian Heinrich Friedrich Datars was born on 28 April 1886, in Hay, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, Frederick Datars, was 32 and his mother, Leah Schroeder, was 25. He married Alice Elizabeth Schilbe on 8 February 1912, in Huron, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1971, at the age of 85, and was buried in Zurich, Bluewater, Huron, Ontario, Canada.