Hi Jane,
Thanks for you prompt response.
No, the marriage cert is just a free-form entry by the minister in the register listing the groom and bride, the parish (Kawaw) and that they were married in his church (St. Pauls) "by banns and with consent of her Parent" as, by my calcs, Priscilla was 14 or 15 at the time.
Richard's death cert is equally unhelpful with "not known" for his Parents, Marriage and Issue entries. "Where born" is "England" and "How long in New Zealand" is "58 years" which refers to his first arrival in NZL, before he moved to SA & VIC and had his family (1848-1860). The NZL electoral rolls show him returned to NZL in 1870.
I have yet to determine if Priscilla went back to NZL with him but suspect not as the family would still have been too young to leave behind - they all married in VIC.
To give you an idea of what life was like at the time, their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, had her first child in 1870 in Graytown, a VIC goldrush settlement. In Dec 1869, Graytown had a population of 12,000; in Dec 1870, after the gold "gave out", the population was 150. There's an entire town surveyed and visible on Google maps, but if you then use Google streetview, it's all bushland. Elizabeth, her husband and child moved to NSW where she raised a large family and lived until 1943 (age 91). Her death cert is blank for the Parents entry and I've never found her marriage certificate. With so mush population movement driven by "gold fever", it's no wonder there a gaps in the records.
Thanks for your suggestion about the Huntingdon FHS. I'll send them an email.
Thanks & Regards,
Mike