Sarjeant Street – Named after Reginald Cranmer Sarjeant (1892-1958). Sarjeant was town clerk and borough engineer of the Riccarton Borough 1929-1950. He did much to improve the standard of roads in Riccarton. First appears in street directories in 1958.

More information from the library website than I was expecting. A small street where the map shows it as going from Princess St to Blenheim Rd but the reality was that it really just led to some businesses and a gym.Difficult to walk because of no footpath that you could walk on so I only walked part of it. No photos here. Unable to find a grave for this man. I did find several graves in Linwood cemetery for Sarjeant family including Reginald’s parents and siblings.There was one headstone that was impossible to read and this is possibly his gravestone. None of these graves appeared on the on-line cemetery database. Couldn’t find any information on an Ancestry website.

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