Details of Ethel's birth are not known.

Ethel married Thomas Tunnicliffe

Details of Ethel's marriage are not known.

She had the following children from her marriage to Thomas Tunnicliffe:

- Carole Tunnicliffe	born in 1945 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
- Glyn Tunnicliffe	born in 1948 in Sheffield, Yorkshire.