Details of Mary's birth are not known.

Mary married John R Whistance in 1965 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire.

She had the following children from her marriage to John R Whistance:

- Vaughan John Whistance	born in 1968 at Walsall, Staffordshire.
- Neil James Whistance	born in 1970 at Walsall, Staffordshire.