Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon was born on 11 April 1890 in Accra, Gold Coast, to
John Farrell Easmon, a
Sierra Leonean of
African-American and
Irish descent and his wife, Kathleen Annette Easmon (
née Smith), a
Sierra Leonean of
Jamaican Maroon,
Fante, and
English descent. Macormack Easmon descended from prominent
Sierra Leonean families and had numerous ancestors who distinguished themselves in the civil service and medical field. Easmon was named "McCormack" or "MacCormac" after his great-grandfather
John MacCormac, who was the uncle of
William MacCormac. John Farrell Easmon (1856–1900) was a prominent Sierra Leonean medical doctor with a distinguished medical career, who was the first West African to serve as
Chief Medical Officer of a British West African territory. The Easmon family are
Sierra Leone Creoles who descend from the original settlers of the
Freetown Colony, the
Nova Scotian Settlers. Macormack Easmon's paternal uncle was
Albert Whiggs Easmon, a prominent gynaecologist in Freetown. Through his maternal lineage, J. F. Easmon was descended from the MacCormac family and was a nephew of Sir
William MacCormac. William Smith Jr. was the son of Judge William Smith, a
Yorkshireman who settled on the Gold Coast and was a judge in the Mixed Commissionary Court in Freetown. Anne Spilsbury was the daughter of Joseph Green Spilsbury and Hannah Carew. J. G. Spilsbury's father was George Green Spilsbury, a distant relative of
Bernard Spilsbury, and Elizabeth Fowler, a
Jamaican Maroon woman. Hannah Carew was the daughter of Thomas and
Betsy Carew, both Liberated Africans. ==Education==