There is some scholarly debate about whether she was born in Saint John, New Brunswick or Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[7][8] In 1819, Love's sister, Anna Maria Heaviside, married clergyman Robert Willis.

[9] Another of Love's sisters, Jane, married Alexander Wedderburn in 1923.

[11] On July 16, 1825, Mary married Lieutenant-Colonel James Frederick Love in New Brunswick.

[12] Henry James Morgan remarked that he would like to have Love's watercolours of the Eastern Townships published.