Corserland St in Burwood – Named after Edmund Norcross Corser (1840- 1901). Corser, a farmer, owned large tracts of land some distance east of Bassett Street. Formed post-1997. Information supplied in 2007 by Marie Corser in an interview with Margaret Harper.Norcross St in Burwood- Named after Edmund Norcross Corser (1840- 1901). Corser farmed on the land where this street was formed. First appears in street directories in 1993.Information supplied in 2007 by Marie Corser, a descendant of Edmund Corser, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I am positive that I have met Marie Corser mentioned in the library information. I am doing both streets together as the information for both streets is the same plus Norcross St seemed to be part of Corserland St. There wasn’t much information on Papers Past but managed to find a reasonable amount of information on the ancestry website. There were three men called Edmund Norcross Corser. The original Edmund was born in October 1833 at Stand in Lancashire. He died in March 1901 aged 61. His son also called Edmund died in November 1941. His great son Edmund died in 1973. I believe the original Edmund purchased the property in 1880 but couldn’t find any family on the land after about 1942. These streets are in the red zone and there are no longer any houses here. On the old google maps it looks like there was still a large property with land which was possibly part of the original estate. The area was busy today with people playing disc golf as these streets go through the middle of a disc golf course. There is a couple of pieces of street art and there was an article about these in the Star News on 10th August 2021.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 