Curtis Street in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Curtis Street – Named after Morton Whitefoord Curtis (1899-1941). Curtis was a sheep farmer from Ashburton. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 7 May 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2012.A reasonable amount of information from the library website. On the ancestry website I found the same information that the library had with a bit extra. His Great Britain Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate had him qualifying in a Caudron Biplane. By about 1924 he was living mostly in South Africa. I couldn’t find his marriage details and he possibly got married in Australia. He was only about 15 years old when his mother died and 18 years old when his father died. He died in July 1941 and is buried in Kenya. His wife died in 1947 and she was about 42. I couldn’t find out much about her and they had at least two children born in South Africa.This street has Te Kahu Park on one side and Wigram School on the other side of it. No houses on this street.