Charles arrived in New Zealand on the “Dover Castle” which departed England on 27 May, 1875 and arrived in Auckland on 24 August, 1875 (e-mail from Larry McLean, Oct. 17, 2-18).
A copy of the Marriage Notice in the Evening Post of 20 April 1876 reads ‘On the 18th April, at St. Peter’s, Te Aro, by the Ven. Archdeacon Stock, Charles Joseph, eldest son of the Rev. Joseph Barker, Rector of Collooney and Ballisadaire, Sligo, Ireland, to Miriam Lois, youngest surviving daughter of the late William Vallance, Esq., Liverpool.