Schumacher Place in the suburb of Burwood, Christchurch

Schumacher Place in Burwood – Named after Edith Amelia Donnell, née Schumacher, (1904-1982). Edith Donnell and her husband, Horace Alexander Donnell (1903?-1965), farmed the land where this street was formed for many years. They bought their land from Edmund Norcross Corser (1840-1901). Named in 2005. A small amount of information from the library website and it is only partly correct. I found very little information on Papers Past. There was a birth notice dated 1933 when Horace and Edith Donnell had a child. Their address was 389 Old New Brighton Road. The electoral rolls gave their address as 389 New Brighton Rd. Horace did farm this land and was described as a dairy farmer but he didn’t buy this land from Edmund Corser. Horace’s father William purchased the land from Edmund Corser. William and his wife Alice both lived at 389 New Brighton Rd and farmed the land. William died in 1944. Living on the same block of land at 341 New Brighton Rd was Ivan Henry Donnell. Ivan was born in 1910 and was Horace’s younger brother. Ivan died in 1997 and the land was subdivided after this date. This tiny street is in the red zone and there are no longer any houses here. Looking at old google maps of the street it looks like it was a pleasant street to live on with only about 5 to 6 houses.