I am researching a branch of the COTTIER/SMITH family that moved to the US in the 1860s/1870s.

Emily Margaret Smith married William Talbot Cottier in 09 Jan 1864 in Queensland, Australia.

They sailed for the USA abt 1867 (daughter Mary b at sea).

By the 1880s, they arrived in California and settled in Oakland.

The family name is Cottier, I have found a few references online in some newspaper accounts. William Snr and Emily (nee Smith) divorced in 1894. I imagine this was not hugely common in those days? Do records exist? I have seen a record in the Oakland Tribune, dated May 03, 1897.

Children of William Talbot Cottier & Emily Margaret nee Smith

Emily B 18 Dec 1854 in Australia D 06 May 1865 in Australia
William Talbot Cottier Jnr B 08 Feb 1866 Australia D Unknown
M Unknown Issue not known

Mary B Abt. 1867 At Sea/Australia-USA D 1920, Albany, Alameda, Ca, USA M Robert Lee Davis ? Issue not known

Maud(e) B 11 Aug 1873 Utah, USA D 02 Dec 1941 Santa Clara, Ca, USA Never married, dies as Cottier Issue not known

Harriet (Hattie)B 06 Nov 1876 Nebraska, USA D 21 Jul 1942 Santa Clara, Ca, USA
M1 James E Brenner/Breuner 1904
M James E Naldrett ?
Issue not known

Kathryene 08 Jan 1874 Utah, USA D 18 Jul 1951 Albany, Alameda, Ca, USA
M1 RJ Miller (son of Frank G Miller) 1898 ?
M2 Patrick Michael Eisenhart 1910
Issue not known

Kathryene was one of the ?3 Kates? police women in San Francisco in the early 1900s.