Ridder Place in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Ridder Pl – Named after the Ridder family Douglas James Frank Ridder (1917-2002) was a prominent Halswell identity. He had a long involvement with St Mary’s Anglican Church in Halswell and made a valuable contribution to the establishment of Halswell Quarry Park. He was widely known as “the Halswell historian”. His parents, John Frank Ridder (1883-1974) and his wife, Elsie, née Voice, (1895-1975), were residents of Halswell as was his grandfather, John Frederick Christopher Ridder (1823?-1902). Other members of the Ridder family were residents of Halswell. Edward Henry Christian “Ted” Ridder (1876?- 1961), an instructor in engineering and carpentry, was prominent in Halswell community affairs. First appears in street directories in 1987.A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add to this. The grandfather’s name of John Frederick Christopher Ridder has been anglicised. The Kennedys Bush Neighbourhood Association has good information as well and the Ridder family lived on Kennedys Bush Rd.The houses here are from the 1980s and there is an entrance to Ridder Reserve here.