Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Strachan Waugh was born in 1863 at East Taieri near Dunedin – the daughter of James Waugh, a farmer, and Mary Strachan. (See 33 Mrs Waugh)
She married George Farquhar, a farmer, on 5 December 1888 at Napier.
They had 10 children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition they were farming at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.
George was one of the founders of the Otago A & P Society and was the first man to make cheese on the Peninsula, he died in 1935.
Isabella died on 19 September 1942 at her daughter’s home in Caversham, Dunedin.
'She was possessed of a kind and loveable nature and will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends'.
Isabella is buried with George in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz