Crichton Terrace in the suburb of Cashmere, Christchurch

Crichton Tce in Cashmere- First mentioned in The Press in 1924 when land in the Tirohanga subdivision is advertised for sale. Tirohanga had formerly belonged to solicitor, Arthur Frank Wright (1874-1961). First appears in street directories in 1927.A small amount of information on the library website and it doesn’t say why the name Crichton.Found the same information about the subdivsion in Papers Past and three buyers of the sections were named as H M Vincent, A H Manson and R A Morgan. The name mentioned most in connection with this street was Prudence Mitchell who seemed to win lots of prizes and she was aged 13 years in 1939.Between Papers Past and the ancestry website I eventually found a reason for the name of the street. Arthur Wright in December 1912 married Irene Crichton-Smith of Australia. Her death notice in 1937 had her name as Renee Wright and she was only 48 years old. I couldn’t find out how her father George Crichton-Smith came up with the Crichton name as he was born George Smith and his father was James Smith. It wasn’t his mother’s name either. George Crichton-Smith and Arthur Wright were both solicitors. Houses here cover every decade from 1920 to 2019 with one house dated 1905. Some lovely houses here and the modern ones weren’t too bad. The street overlooks the Cashmere tennis courts and Bowling Club and one side of the street has parallel parking for the tennis courts and Bowling Club. There is no footpath on this street and it is fairly narrow in parts of it.