Known as Ada.
Ada's mother, Mary Elizabeth Ames was born in 1848 in Surrey, England. She married Lorenzo McIntyre on 1 April 1865 at Ararat, Victoria. He was born 5 February 1824 at Litchfield, Maine, United States of America. The marriage produced 11 children. Of the 8 girls and 3 boys in the family, Adeline was the second eldest. Mary Elizabeth Ames died in 1880 in Victoria and her husband, Lorenzo, died 1902 in Footscray, Victoria.