Annie Gertrude Denton was born in Edgbaston on 30 December 1877, the daughter of Frederick and Annie Gertrude Denton (née Edmunds). Annie’s father, a coal merchant, died in April 1880, when Annie was 2 years old. Her mother remarried Sidney P. Nicholds in 1884.
Annie married John Jacques (1865-1950) in Broadway in 1909.