Daughter of Conrad and Louisa
Annie was born at Barraba on 13 July 1878. At 23 years of age, on 28 January 1902, she married William Ernest Steiger, a farmer at “Glenda” Barraba. William Ernest was the eleventh child of a family of thirteen children of Carl Steiger and Eliza (nee Schmidt). Both parents were from Germany. Carl arrived in Australia in 1854, Eliza in 1855, and they were married about 1861. All the children were born in Australia.
Unfortunately, Annie and William Ernest’s marriage lasted just two years. William Ernest died on 30 December 1908 – peritonitis from appendicitis.
The couple had one child, Mabel Maud, born 21 September 1902, only five months before William Ernest’s death.
Annie Simshauser remarried on 6 February 1907 to Ernest O’Hara. He was 33 years of age and born at Carroll, NSW. They had at least two children – Jane and May.