Mary Elizabeth Austin was born in 1939.

Mary married Stephen Albert Allen in 1964 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire.

She had the following children from her marriage to Stephen Albert Allen:

- David Stephen Allen	born in 1965 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
- Jacqueline Mary Allen	born in 1967 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
- Elizabeth Rachel Allen	born in 1980 at Birmingham, Warwickshire.