The first Annabelle spinoff, simply titled Annabelle, wound the clock back to 1967 and showed the doll targeting John and Mia Form, the next door neighbors of Annabelle Higgins’ parents, who are swiftly killed by their daughter and her boyfriend at the beginning of the movie.
The Annabelle doll was introduced at the beginning of The Conjuring (set in 1971), where we learned that the Raggedy Ann doll was possessed by the spirit of a girl named Annabelle Higgins.
Annabelle: Creation then jumped back even further to 1955 and depicted the doll and Annabelle Higgins’ origins.