The child's parents were married at Boulder on 22 November 1906 (Marriage Registration 191/1906, Boulder). James was born 16 September 1875 at Daylesford, Victoria. His wife was born 6 April 1877 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. The deceased child was the fourth of their eight children. The other five boys and two girls were Harry George Jones born 1902, Perth; James Francis Joseph born Boulder 1907 (Birth Registration 369/1907, Boulder), died 1908 at Boulder (Death Registration 700090/1908, Boulder); Jessie Frances born (Birth Registration 498/1908, Boulder) and died in Boulder in 1908 (Death Registration 70-0141/1908, Boulder); Hubert Harold born 22 October 1911 at Brown Hill, Kalgoorlie (Birth Registration 490/1911, East Coolgardie); Norman Clive born 23 January 1914 at North Fremantle (Birth Registration 70/1914, Fremantle) ; Lloyd George born 27 June 1917 at Kookynie (Birth Registration 21/1917, (North Coolgardie); Nancy Elizabeth born 7 March 1919 at Kookynie.
The children's father died at Kalgoorlie in October 1949 (Death Registration 1800192/1949, East Coolgardie) and his wife died 25 January 1958 in Maylands (Death Registration 100286/1958, Perth).