Charlotte Alice Ethel LINK [1141] ²⁰⁰⁰

  General Notes:

3 Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Sat 31 Mar 1906 Page 37 A SHOCKING CHARGE.
A SHOCKING CHARGE.
Broken Hill, March 28.
A case was heard at the Police Court today, which elicited startling evidence.
Charlotte Link proceeded against her father, John Link, for retaining certain of her goods, viz., one workbox, two hats, crockery ware, vases, pictures, and baby clothes. The defendant did not appear.
The complainant, in answer to the S.M., said she was in a certain condition, and expected to be confined during next month.
The S.M. - Who is the father of your unborn child?
The Witness - My own father.
Where did this occur? - At Port Adelaide.
When you came to Broken Hill did you refuse to live with your father? - Yes.
Why? - Because I was afraid of him. Your own father admits that he is the father of the child? - Yes.
The defendant was ordered to deliver up the goods by tomorrow or pay the complainant 10/; default seven days. The defendant was further ordered to pay costs, 15/, and the witness fees, 10/; in default 14 days.
The S.M. said he presumed the South Australian police would be acquainted with the fact that a charge of incest had been made against the defendant.

The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Fri 10 Aug 1906 Page 6 SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
south australia.
THREE YEARS' HARD LABOR.
ADELAIDE, Thursday.
At the criminal sittings to-day, John Link, 48 years, was charged with having had improper relations with his daughter, Charlotte Link, at Port Adelaide, on or about 13th August, 1905.
Charlotte Link, aged 20, deposed that she got into trouble in 1904 through a man named Hartland. The child died when it was sixteen days old. On 15th August, 1905, when her mother was out, the offence complained of took place at her parents' home at Port Adelaide, and a child was born on 15th April, 1906. The jury found prisoner guilty, and his Honor passed a sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labor.

Charlotte's parents were John Link (Lenk) and Emma Margaret Brewer. On one family birth John's second name is given as Christian, but the below death would indicate that his name was John Adam Link.

The newspaper is clearly dated 1913, but SA death record on Ancestry.com states she died on 15 September 1912
The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Tue 16 Sep 1913 Page 1 Family Notices
LINK. -THE FRIENDS of Mr. JOHN ADAM LINK are informed that the Remains of his late WIFE (Emma Margaret) will be removed from his residence, Dale-street, Port Adelaide, on TUESDAY, at 4. p.m.. for interment in the Woodville .Cemetery. F. R. MOORE & SON, Undertakers, Military-road, Semaphore, 'Phone 1SS; Junction road, Rosewater' 'Phone 540.

In 1914 a John Adam Link was charged at Port Adelaide, with assault on a 10 year old girl, and whilst the judge believed that something had happened, the case was dismissed as it could not be proven.

Charlotte married Abel Joseph ROLFE [1142] [MRIN: 338] in 1906 in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. (Abel Joseph ROLFE [1142] was born about 1882 in Willianda, SA, Australia,²⁰⁰¹ died in 1960 in Maryborough, Vic, Australia ²⁰⁰¹ and was buried on 12 Sep 1960 in Red Cliffs, Vic, Australia ²⁰⁰².)