Eleanor "Nell" Elizabeth West was the first child of Lewis Victor West and Ellen (Richardson) West. She was born in Norfolk, England in 1906, and immigrated to Canada with her mother and brother in August 1912. They joined her father in Toronto.

Nell married Charles William Bailey on November 10, 1928 in York, Ontario. Her sister Dorothy was a witness for her.

Nell died in 1997 and is buried in Parklawn cemetery in Toronto. Charles was born in 1899 and died in 1964.