Matthew and Sarah emigrated to Canada where their first son Matthew junior was born. They later moved to Portland, Oregon, USA where their second child Cissy was born in 1851. After 6 years in Canada and USA they decided to travel to Sydney Australia from San Fransisco on the ship "William" (Departed 21 Jan 1853) and arrived in Auckland, New Zealand 4 April 1853. Leila was born on board the ship as it approached Auckland and this probably influenced their decision to disembark there rather than carry on to Sydney as initially planned. [1]
Christened: 28 Apr 1821 at Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England
Matthew Henry Roe arrived in New Zealand on the "William" in 1853 and owned land where the civic square now is, along with a timber factory and a mill at Cornwallis, now known as Mill Bay. He built a mill in Onehunga, down from Princes Street, and was a very well known resident. There is no tombstone on his first wife's grave in Symonds Street cemetery, there was instead a square concrete wall with the name Roe. It was located in the second row from the footpath from the street side of the cemetery.
Matthew Roe was a well known timber Merchant at Cornwallis on the Manukau Harbour. Although he had a beautiful Kauri timber home at Cornwallis he mostly lived in Onehunga, Auckland.
His Cornwallis property and house was purchased by my gt-gtfather John Kilgour about late 1860 or early 1861.
In 1889, this house set in a very isolated position burned down. Its foundations can be located on the hillside of the peninsula and in the spring time when flowers (not doubt planted by Mrs Ellen Kilgour) still come up in the middle of the bush.
ROE Matthew Henry, Grahame St, Auckland Leasehold, Coromandel Harbour (Coromandel Saw Mills)
ROE - WILLIAMS On 10th December 1861 at the residence of Mrs Williams, Auckland, by Rev J. Thornton, Mr M H Roe, Timber Merchant, to Anne Williams, daughter of the late Edward Williams Esq, of Birmingham, Warwickshire. [NZ' 8 Jan 1862]
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