Annie Moore Burke was educated at the Canossian Convent in Hong Kong together with her younger sister, Clara. She married John Olson (2) from the convent aged 17 in 1906. They had four sons, Ernest, Hugh, William Oswald, and Charles. Latterly they lived at 13 Broadwood Road. Annie took their children to England in 1919 to continue their education there. The couple bought a house in Chiswick, London, but returned with their youngest son in 1921 to be present when the partnership of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. was broken up. Annie was remembered as a fearsome matriarch by her nephew, Reggie Warren, who, with his brother Arthur, may have been absorbed into the Olson household when their own mother, Hannah Warren, was away in England. Annie's grandson, Sean Olson, wrote that "she took no prisoners." Annie revisited Hong Kong in 1966 after her husband's death to stay with her son, Bill Olson, who was the BOAC representative at the time. She fell ill during her stay and died unexpectedly after suffering from violent stomach pains. Annie had inherited a plot of land in the New Territories originally sold by Charles Warren to John Olson as a part of their settlement. Their sons donated the land for the construction of an orphanage that became the Tai Po Orphanage.
In the photograph below taken in about 1921, John and Annie Olson are the couple on the left.
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