Baroness Paisley became a life peer in 2006 and retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017.

Her family were originally of the Presbyterian faith but became members of the Baptist Church after a disagreement with their minister.

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley on 13 October 1956, by which stage she had converted to Free Presbyterianism.

[4] Among the congregation was Roman Catholic Falls Road girl Maura Lyons whose conversion to Free Presbyterianism and subsequent disappearance had Northern Ireland spellbound for several months.

[5] The Paisleys had five children together, daughters Sharon, Rhonda (a graduate of Bob Jones University who served as a member of Belfast City Council) and Cherith, and twin sons Kyle and Ian (the former a Free Presbyterian minister, the latter a former DUP MP).