Hi jorose
Thanks for all that! Your post illustrates really well the difficulties I am having with this family:
* There is no-one on findmypast (and I searched for Bentley leaving UK for Australia 1893 to 1898) who looks remotely like my Bentleys. I even tried searching for Britain to the Far East (as the family had previously lived there) but no matches there.
* The webpage you mention is my own, with info entered by me. (I know quite a lot about them EXCEPT how/when they came!)
* I had found the piece in the Brisbane Courier about Mrs F. (sic) H. Bentley and yes, I am almost sure this is my Camilla. She had at least one brother in Brisbane.
* Had found the one in the West Australian many moons ago, while plodding through microfilms. Sure this is NOT her - too early/no children with her.
* Hadn't seen the 1895 arrival in the Brisbane Courier. It is from Sydney, which doesn't tell me when he came to Australia - but quite likely to be him. This may at least mean that I can pinpoint his arrival to 1895, and the family may have come later. Thanks for this!
*Ditto the 1896 shipping entry for Mrs, Miss and Mr Bentley. The big problem is the lack of initials - I can't be sure, though the "Captain" in the first one makes it almost certain.
But with all of this, I still don't know when or how any of them came! Ancestry is no real help either. And I have ploughed through microfilms for probably 100 hours or more. According to FindMyPast, they didn't leave Britain! I'm beginning to wonder if they swam!!!
MarieC