Conailus Street in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Conailus Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website – First name of the first owner of the property who arrived in Christchurch in 1863 (from Country Cork). Married Ellen O’Driscoll in 1869 and purchased the Halswell property in 1871. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road and Murphys Road. The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of a historic connection to the Murphy family who landed in New Zealand in 1866 and farmed the property until recently. This street looked more established than the rest of the streets in the area. The houses all looked exactly the same with very little character but there was one with a reasonably interesting garden. Interesting information from the council website but his name wasn’t spelt Conailus. All the records that I could find with includes his marriage and death records spell his name as Cornelius. If I was one of the ancestors I would be annoyed at the wrong spelling. Also his wife’s name was Ellen Driscoll and not O’Driscoll. I couldn’t find much information on the ancestry website or Papers Past. The various family trees were of no help at all and as usual I will complain about people not checking information before adding to their family trees. I couldn’t find which ship Cornelius came on to New Zealand and Cornelius Murphy was a very common name. I found the marriage details for Cornelius and Ellen from 1869. The death notices for both of them were extremely brief and as Cornelius was a land owner I expected to find an obituary but nothing. There was an entry in Papers Past in 1918 about an objection to the land valuation but suspect that it was actually the son also called Cornelius as it sounded like he was running the property by this time. Cornelius and his wife Ellen are buried in the Linwood cemetery along a daughter Ellen, son Cornelius and a daughter Mary. Cornelius died 6th December 1919 aged 84, Ellen died 30th May 1931 aged 90. Their son Cornelius died 30th April 1945 aged 70 and their daughter Ellen died 30th June 1952 and it didn’t give an age for her. Their daughter Mary was born 20th April 1878 and died 8th July 1915.