The Matilda Wattenbach made it to Auckland first on September 8, 1862 and the new settlers made their own way to the settlement of Albertland (now known as Port Albert).
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The group landed late that afternoon at Wade (now Silverdale) where they stayed the night before setting off the next day on foot up the Waiwera Valley having to cross several creeks on the way.
He was five years a pupil at the People's College, Nottingham, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1863 with his parents, who joined the great Nonconformist movement to establish a special settlement at Albertland, north of Auckland.