Albertlanders ( NZ) background (General)

by jhopkins , Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 21:28 (5512 days ago) @ jhopkins

Some more resources:

From the Te Ara Encyclopaedia of NZ:
"Albertlanders

"The foundation of Albertland, on the Kaipara Harbour, was intended to mark the bicentenary of the expulsion of the dissenting clergy from the Church of England, which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Between 1862 and 1865, 3,000 people arrived in New Zealand under this scheme, although less than half made it to Albertland. Most were English nonconformist farm labourers (who were members of a Protestant Church that disagreed with the Church of England), many from the Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire."

Also:
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=HBH18621108.2.5&l=mi&...

This newspaper article outlines some of the difficulties your ancestors may have faced... In other areas, settlers arrived in the back of beyond to take up the land they had purchased (whilst they were in Britain), only to find this was news to the rightful Maori owners. Apparently this was not one of the issues in Albertland.

http://www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/scripts/reports/reports/674/6843CD78-3021-4F27-A3B...

This is a section of the Waitangi Tribunal report on the Kaipara claim. There is far more detail in it than you probably want, but pages 37 - 39 give you some information you may not have at this stage about the settlement, and the maps may be useful.