 Before Cornificia had married, she had settled her paternal inheritance with her brother.Ronald Syme identifies her husband as one of the suffect consuls in 146, recorded in the "Fasti Ostienses" as Gaius Annianus Verus, but whom he claims had the full name of Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus.He was descended from one of the leading aristocratic and politically influential families in Rome and was a direct descendant of the late suffect consul Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, one time suffect consul.