Elizabeth Southwell was the second child and eldest daughter of William Southwell, a London pianoforte maker, and his wife Elizabeth. She was baptised at St Pancras Old Church on 18 August 1825. On 4 August 1859 at St Marylebone Church she married an architect, Edward Cookworthy Robins, who became an eminent member of his profession (see his biographical notes). Her younger sister Louisa had married Edward's brother Alfred a few months earlier in April the same year.

Elizabeth died in Worthing, Sussex in 1908. Her only child Ida Southwell Robins (1860 - 1953) - later the wife of Henry Perrin - became a gifted artist, best known for her botanical illustrations of British flowering plants (see her biographical notes).

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