Details of Grace's birth are not known.

Grace married William Shoesmith around 1941 in the Clitheroe Registration District (Mar. quarter).

She had the following children from her marriage to William Shoesmith:

- Peter J. Shoesmith	born in 1942 in the Amounderness Registration District.
- David W. Shoesmith	born in 1945 in the Preston Registration District.