Kilmurry Street in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Kilmurry Street in Halswell and the street is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website. The parish/district name given to the village where Conailus came from. 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. The houses here were too new to have any character and they all looked exactly the same but more established the side streets in the area. The best part of the street was the playground and I would have attempted the slide but was worried that I would get stuck. I could just imagine the headlines of pensioner stuck in playground slide. I still couldn’t find out any extra information about Cornelius and found several with that name born in the Kilmurry area in the right time frame. Still can’t find a passenger list for his arrival in New Zealand. Kilmurry has a museum called Independence Museum which looked interesting.