Details of May's birth are not known.

May married William Lloyd Bayley in 1914 in Madeley, Shropshire.

She had the following children from her marriage to William Lloyd Bayley:

- William R. Bayley	born in 1915 in Walsall, Staffordshire.
- John F. Bayley	born in 1918 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire.