Hi all,
Again - many thanks. I tried to find Joseph Bottrell in S.A and found one, a miner in Moonta which interested me for a while, until I realised it was an entirely different Josph Bottrell!
The couple must have moved to Broken Hill about 1901/2 so the time-slot in S.A would have been very narrow.
We'll have to wait a while to apply for Doreen's birth certificate and hope that that will give some further information. It seems that it will be very difficult to find her natural parents but I agree the name "Lincoln" may well be significant as it isn't a family name in Joseph's or Selina's family so it might well provide an important lead.
Lemming
