When Barbara Joy Rumney was born on 4 June 1925, in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, her father, Ralph Rumney, was 39 and her mother, Clara Eugene Paul, was 34. She married Lawson Wilcox on 6 November 1944, in Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 7 January 1992, in Huon, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 66, and was buried in Huonville, Tasmania, Australia.