Her mother was Helen (born Chisholm in Scotland) and her clergyman and politician father was Bolton Stafford Bird.
She had some of her education in Tasmania and the rest at the Methodist Ladies College in Kew.
[1] In 1907 she left her first headship after only a few months in order that she could marry a Scottish-born widower with five daughters.
[1] In 1929 a homecraft hostel was opened in a small villa in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern[2] and Weatherly was the first principal.
[3] The Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel stayed open until 1973 after 2,000 students had passed through its doors.