Johanna Caroline (Augusta) Steele of Mildura, VIC Australia was born in 1855 in Apoinga, SA to Heindrich Theodore Burchard Jacobs and Albertine Lissete (Scheidemantel) Jacobs. She had siblings Bertha Matilda Johanna Jacobs, Clara Cecilia Helena Jacobs, and Edgmond Albert Theodore Jacobs. She married William Steele, and had children Andrew James Steele, Virginia Theresa (Steele) Beasley, William Henry Steele, Alice Violetta Steele, John Alexander Disher Steele, Mary Clare Camilla, James Arthur Steele, and Clarence Edward "Peter" Steele. Johanna Steele died at age 77 years old on June 5, 1933 at birchip in birchip, australia County, Vic, and was buried on June 7, 1933 at Birchip in Birchip.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...