De Courcy Place in the suburb of Avondale, Christchurch

De Courcy Place in Avondale – Named after John De Courcy Hanafin (1920- 2006). Hanafin was a Drainage Board member and Christchurch City councillor 1989-1992. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of lowlying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the streets formed there and former board and staff members of the Drainage Board were among those honoured in the naming of streets. At the time of naming it was intended to have 11 streets and cul-de-sacs in the new subdivision. Named on 21 November 1984. First appears in street directories in 1987. Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council in an interview with Margaret Harper. “Board may restrict sewage flows”, The Press, 29 November 1984 A reasonable of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out much information about this man which surprised me. I believe that he died in an accident at the age of 85 but couldn’t find any details of this accident. He is buried in Wanaka. I didn’t find much information on the ancestry website. A lot of information came up about the original John De Courcy who was an Anglo Norman knight who went to Ireland in 1176. This street is next to Avondale Park and there are only 7 houses here and they were built in 1980 and 1990. The houses are large with nice gardens. I didn’t manage to find the nearby geocache.