- Earnshaw was born on the outskirts of the Zambian mining town of Mufulira on 6 April 1981 to Rita and English-born father David Earnshaw.
- He is one of five children
- His mother was a professional footballer in Zambia and later became a boxer and his father was a manager of a gold mine
- His uncle Fidelis was also a professional footballer who played for Nkana and two of his cousins, Kalusha and Johnson Bwalya, represented Zambia at international level
- Kalusha later went on to become president of the Football Association of Zambia
- When Earnshaw was five, his family moved to Malawi where his father, took charge of a coal mine and his youngest son began attending St. Andrews School in Lilongwe.
- He went on to attend Viphya School where he was taught the Chewa language, already being able to speak Bemba and English
- In 1990, Earnshaw’s father contracted typhoid fever and died in May of that year
- Earnshaw’s youth team, GE Wales, played their home matches in Treforest on a pitch nearby to the youth team base of Cardiff City
- On 6 July 2011, Earnshaw rejoined boyhood club Cardiff City on a free transfer,
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