Hennessy Place – Named after Patrick Hennessy (1869?-1959). Hennessy, a platelayer with the Christchurch Tramway Board and later a market gardener, lived at 155 Lyttelton Street. He gave a large area of land there for the building of pensioners’ flats. Named in 1960.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing to add. The George Manning Lifecare and Village is on this site. George Manning was the mayor of Christchurch when complex was built and he also had a connection with the Tramways as did Patrick Hennessy. George Manning was also involved in the WEA.
I will include Paulger Courts here as QV website have them on Hennessy Place. Google maps and list of streets in suburbs have it as a separate street. Nothing on library website for Paulger Courts. The units here were built about 2000. I found a John Wright Paulger living at 13 Lyttelton St and he died in 1927. Many of his family settled in Lyttelton and several of the family trees on ancestry website have John living and dying in Lyttelton but electoral rolls have him in Spreydon and he is buried at Sydenham. Possible reason for the name of Paulger Courts.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 