When Bertha Nanette Newman was born on 18 August 1868, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Newman, was 65 and her mother, Annie Maria Marshall, was 17. She married James Alexander Mccormick on 2 June 1896, in Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 17 August 1953, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Napanee, Greater Napanee, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada.