Winnie was born in 1893 in Moston. Winnie's father was William Woolrich and her mother was Julia Grace Crook. Her paternal grandparents are Thomas Peter Woolrich and <Unknown>; her maternal grandparents were David and Anne. She had a brother and two sisters, named Sidney, Gertrude and Connie. She was the second oldest of the four children. She died at the age of 83 in 1976.