The Australian Women's Register

Annie Walsh migrated to Australia with her parents, Mathew Walsh and Frances Ann (nee Kennedy), on the Victory in March 1854. Theirs was a large family. Annie moved to South Australia with her sisters, one of whom – Elizabeth – married George Miller in 1869. Miller was licensee of the Menindee Hotel, and offered employment there to Annie and another sister, Jane. On 26 June 1877, Annie married Charles Carl, known in the district as German Charlie.

Charles and Annie Carl became licensees of the Small Thorns Hotel at Mt Gipps in 1877 and remained there for four years before moving to Silverton, where Charles built the Nevada Hotel. The Carls had five children: William (born 1878), Julia (born 1879), Wilhemina Margaret (born 1881), Jullian (1883) and Geraldine Ann (born 1887). Only William and Wilhemina survived infancy.

Charles Carl died in 1904. In Silverton, Annie ran the Travellers Rest lodging house, helped with community projects, and held evening classes to teach illiterate adults to read and write.