When Maria Mathilda (Tilly) Volp was born on 14 February 1896, in Kleinton, Queensland, Australia, her father, John Volpez, was 25 and her mother, Johanna Heilig, was 28. She married Percival Thomas Price on 13 September 1916, in Meringandan, Queensland, Australia. She died on 12 July 1969, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 73, and was buried in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.