Caroline Scott was born in Bristol, England, to Emmett and Elizabeth Scott, part of a prosperous family of merchants and civil servants.
She was given a modest education by her father, but she supplemented it by reading as often as her household duties allowed. She grew into an intelligent and confident young woman.
Caroline first met Edward Kenway outside of the Auld Shillelagh, after the latter saved one of her servants from the clutches of some of Bristol's most notorious cads.
Although she was thankful for his kindness, and agreed to meet him again under more favorable circumstances, she never imagined, at the time, that a romance would bloom.