Shipping Record HIND

[darib]

As to the "honeymoon theory", I think that was highly unlikely, they were not wealthy people at all.
However, there is a record of Joseph Taylor Hind's nephew, Henry(Harry) Kenyon  Hind (b 1866), his wife Elizabeth and 2 daughter, Constance & Doris, travelling to NZ on board the "Gothic" from England in 1901, but they too were back in England at the time of the 1911 Census.
Maybe this was the one time my grandmother got confused when writing up her story, and mistakenly confused that journey, but I find it highly unlikely, as their trip took place some 20 years after her father's journey that she referred to.

[Lucy2]

Mmm... sorry, just not able to help you in finding a record of their journey to New Zealand.

 

[Lucy2]

Just another thought  ... have you looked at passenger lists into Australia around the early 1880's ?

They could well have arrived there  ... and then "travelled on to NZ to visit their friends".   
[British subjects were "free" to travel between Australia and NZ (and vice versa), without the need to complete immigration formalities.   Records of such travel between the two countries (i.e. passenger lists), are scant though. ]

   ~  Lu

[darib]

I will certainly have a look at the Australian shipping lists, it is a possibility I guess. I never thought of that.
Joseph Taylor's HIND's father - Joseph HIND (1815) did himself come to Australia in 1852, leaving his wife and 5 children, including the young Joseph T HIND behind in England. I have a record of him arriving in 1852. He was never heard of again, and is believed to have gone to the goldfields in Victoria, where he died, although no burial records can be found. His widow in England later re-married, in 1865.