WAECKERLE, CHRISTIAN JACOB (1816-1901) was born in the German-speaking part of France. He came to New Zealand in the Comte de Paris in 1840 as one of the French settlers at Akaroa. He farmed for a year or two at German Bay, and then for many years kept a hotel at Akaroa. He also owned a flourmill and sawpit. Waeckerle represented Akaroa in the Canterbury Provincial Council (1866-69), and was a member of the first Akaroa and Wainui road board and a mayor of Akaroa. He drove the first wheeled buggy from Akaroa to Pigeon Bay. He died on 12 Apr 1901.

Canterbury P.C. Proc.; Jacobson; Buick, French at Akaroa; J. Hay, 182; Lyttelton Times, 15 Apr 1901.

Reference: Volume 2, page 219

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