When Claude Victor Gabriel Marescaux was born on 21 July 1928, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, his father, Yves Eugene Francois Marescaux, was 29 and his mother, Emilienne Josephine Constance Dumoulin, was 26. He married Shirley Margaret Anne Isaacs from 12 January 1956 to 1 December 1956, in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 8 September 2002, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.