Hello, Many thanks to Di Cummings for the info on gold shipments/passengers to and from the gold fields. Unfortunately nothing concrete for me. Joshua would have been 23/4yrs. I have Joshua writing to Margaret Richardson in Adelaide 18 Jul 1852 from 6 miles out of Bendigo. I have Mrs Bird & Mrs J Bird on the Despatch leaving Sydney and arriving Nelson, NZ 24 Feb 1953. Their eldest daughter Lucy was born Nelson 23 May 1953 so Joshua back in Adelaide no later than Sept 1852. So a tight timeline, I haven¹t been able to find their marriage. My concrete block. Thanks again, Gwyneth Sydney