When Violet Frances Filmer was born on 13 July 1893, in Bailieston, Victoria, Australia, her father, Arthur George Filmer, was 27 and her mother, Mary Dorothea Broome, was 25. She married Charles Duncan Cameron on 1 June 1916, in Noorinbee, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 2 December 1979, in Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 86.