Weir Place in the suburb of Hoon Hay, Christchurch

Weir Place in Hoon Hay- Named after the Weir family. Henry Weir (1835?- 1884) and his wife, Mary Jane, settled in Halswell in 1863, living on Hoon Hay Road. Their son, Walter Henry Weir (1877-1935) farmed at Dalkeith, 99 Hoon Hay Road. He “always took a keen interest in the affairs of the Cashmere – Halswell district”. First appears in street directories in 1953.A small amount of information from the library website and I am going to have to disagree with the library as they have put this street into the suburb of Halswell. This street is near Hoon Hay Road and nowhere near Halswell and I suspect that the person at the library got misled by the obituary which says that the Weir family lived in Halswell and that Henry Weir settled in Halswell when he arrived in NZ. The obituary is the only place that mentions Halswell. I checked Papers Past and the ancestry website and apart from the obituary all the other information has the Weir family living on Hoon Hay Road at a property called Dalkeith. Most mentions of the property have it in Spreydon and the street is on the edge of Spreydon. Henry Weir married Mary Jane Barrett in January 1875 but sadly she died in October 1877 aged 25. Henry Weir died in 1883 aged 49. In 1884 his farm in Spreydon was offered up for lease for a seven year period. There was another item in 1884 where Alexander Weir was appointed guardian of the infants Florence Mary and Walter Henry Weir. Walter Henry Weir went on to farm the same property and was also a member of the Spreydon Road Board. Walter Henry Weir died in 1935 aged only 58 and it is his obituary that has him living in Halswell which isn’t backed up by electoral rolls of the day. The ancestry website has Henry Weir as being born in Dublin yet he named his property after a place in Scotland. The family trees on ancestry were just as confused about his wife Mary Jane Barrett as some had her born in Cornwall and others had her born in Australia. I couldn’t find a connection to my Barrett ancestors but didn’t spend a lot of time looking.There are only 16 properties here and most were built in the 1950s with one from 1980 and another from 1990. It was a pleasant street with some lovely gardens. There was one huge house from the 1950s that I suspect has been extended. I even quite liked the more modern house on the street. The side of the street closest to the Heathcote River is lower than the other side yet the street that it runs off is flat. No photos for this street.