Ethel was born in Wilberforce on 02/02/1857.

​On 02/02/1884 she married in Glebe, NSW to Charles Henry Ferguson. He was born 09/10/1850 in Sydney and baptised on 12/11/1850 in St Andrews, Sydney..

​They had 3 children:​

• Max Beresford Ferguson (1884 – 1956)
• Kendall McCarthy Ferguson (1885 – 1950)
• William Henry Teale Ferguson (1888 – 1970)

Charles died on 03/12/1889 in Coast Hospital in Little Bay and is buried at Presp. Sec. Rookwood.

​Ethel remarried in 1907 in Sydney to Malachi Kirque Duhla Dufficy (born in 1851). He arrived in Australia from London in April 1879, married at the time of arrival.

​Ethel died on 12/01/1932 in Ashfied and is buried at St John C/E Wilberforce.

​Malachi died on 20/11/1934 in Waterloo.