Albertland

Albertland is an area north of Auckland, New Zealand, 8 kilometres (5 miles) north of Wellsford; it was the site of the last organised immigration from Britain.

Immigration plans

In 1861 William Rawson Brame, a Birmingham Baptist minister, founded the Albertland Special Settlement Association, organising non-conformist immigrants to come to New Zealand as part of the last organised British settlement in New Zealand. They included farmers, carpenters, servants, butchers, joiners, cabinetmakers, millers, drapers, sawyers, clerks and many other trades.

The Albertlanders set sail for New Zealand on May 29, 1862 aboard numerous ships including the Matilda Wattenbach, Hanover and William Miles. 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).

Locating Albertland