Marley View Street in the suburb of Somerfield, Christchurch

Marley View St – Named because Marleys Hill can be seen from the street. Marleys Hill is named after William Henry Marley (1816-1896). Marley was a pioneer architect and builder. First appears in street directories in 1957.
A small amount of information from the library website and I don’t believe that the information about William Marley is entirely correct.
Information from Papers Past says that William Marley arrived on the Charlotte Jane and his obituary describes him as an organ builder and that he built the first organ in Canterbury at St Michaels Church. The same obituary mentions his son William Marley architect of Christchurch.
Harry Ell wrote a piece about William Marley which described him as a builder and architect and I suspect that he got the father and son muddled up as they both had the same name including the same middle name.
The ancestry website has William Marley’s occupation as a carpenter and it has the son as an architect.
This street is where 52 to 58 Rose Street used to be and most houses are built in the 1950s but one house was built in 1925. I couldn’t get a good look at this property but it did look like an older house compared to the rest of the street. The houses built in the 1950s were very ordinary looking.