Nancy Potter was the wife of Robert, mother of Audrey and maternal grandmother of Stephen Reid and Gail McIntyre. Nancy and her husband Robert were strict with only child Audrey, thrusting responsibility upon her from a young age. When their daughter became pregnant at sixteen in 1956, the Potters were horrified, and accepted an offer from close friends and neighbours Joyce and Malcolm Reid to adopt the child and raise him as their own. Nancy and Robert died before Gail's debut on the street in 1974.