When Avice Nankivell was born on 3 April 1858, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, her father, George Nankivell, was 24 and her mother, Mary Ann Turner, was 18. She married Ambrose Enticknap in 1883, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 18 August 1950, in Leeton, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 92.