Jane Winifred Steger

[3] Throughout their time together the family lived a nomadic life and worked as camel-drivers in Central Australia, initially based in the South Australian towns of Marree and Oodnadatta.

Steger had a special place in the communities there as, pressed into unwilling service by Nuby, she assisted with the translation of consignment notes and bills of landing as many of the cameleers could not read English.

[5] Around 1923–1924 Nuby died in a cholera outbreak in his home village when visiting India to help his family and, upon hearing the news, months after events and already struggling from the financial aspects of her husband's loss, Steger was shocked to learn she had no claim to his estate as the two were never formally married.

However, by the time she arrived in India with her 3 children to Nuby, the king had been overthrown and she travelled with a medical team to the border and helped escort Queen Souriya back to Bombay.

[8] During World War II Steger ran a mess for miners in the Northern territory town of Tennant Creek where she kept goats to provide milk and meat.

[3] In 1969 Steger published her 'autobiography' Always Bells: Life with Ali, but quickly had to re-release it as a novel as it contained many inaccuracies, including claiming that she was born in China and raised in a convent.