Frankleigh Street – Named after the baronetcy of Frankley. [The name of the street is wrongly spelt.] A title belonging to the Lyttelton family. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Canterbury Association and, especially, the Lyttelton family. They were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847- 1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876).
A reasonable amount of information from the library and there is nothing that I can add. I couldn’t find out if Frederick Spencer ever came out to NZ and Conway Lucas Rose spent less than 10 years in NZ from approx 1953 to 1864. I drive down this road frequently and it was interesting walking it. Lots of older houses with infill housing behind them. A couple of Art Deco houses.There is a church on the corner of Frankleigh and Barrington Streets and one of my sister’s best friends got married here nearly 60 years ago. The new cycleway runs along this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 