Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Ross Waugh was born on 10 March 1862 in Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, Scotland – the daughter of Charles Waugh, a miner, and Elizabeth Kidd.
She emigrated to New Zealand and she married Edward Iles, a hairdresser and perfumer, in 1883.
They had three children and when Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Upper Walker St, Dunedin.
They moved to Christchurch in the 1910s where Annie died on 29 August 1935.
Edward died in 1945, he was cremated and his ashes interred with Annie and their daughter in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz