Mundys Road in the suburb of Dallington, Christchurch

Mundys Rd in Dallington- formerly Mundy’s Road Named after James Mundy (1836?-1918). Mundy, a carpenter, lived on Stapletons Road in the early 20th century. Mundy’s Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1912. First appears in street directories in 1914.A small amount of information from the library website and I don’t think that they have the correct James Mundy. There wasn’t a lot of information on Papers Past and it was mostly just sections for sale in 1912.The ancestry website was a bit confusing but eventually worked out that there were three men with the name James Mundy and two of them were carpenters. James Mundy who was born in 1835 in Cornwall and died in 1918. He was living at 30 Forfar St when he died and was living at 99 Peterborough St when his wife Eliza died in 1909. His son James Mundy lived at 10 Stapleton Rd and this James was born in September 1867 and died in June 1944. He married Annie Thompson in 1899. The third James Mundy died in 1975 and mostly lived in the Riccarton area. I did find a Job Mundy who lived at Locksley on Mundys Rd in 1905 and previous to 1900 the address for him was Locksley, New Brighton Rd. I couldn’t find much information for Job and his real name was Joseph. The information that I found online said that a Joseph George Fisher Palmer who was a banker had the house Locksley built and he lived there. I couldn’t find out out when the house changed hands but Joseph Palmer was living at a house called Woodford on Papanui Rd. I would need to visit the library to get more information about this house. This street is split in half and the half that runs off Gayhurst Rd still has houses and there is only 22 properties and the earliest is from 1920 but most were built in the 1940s and 1950s. There are a couple from post earthquakes. One building that looks like it is being lived in doesn’t show up on the valuation website and looks like it used to be a business. I was geocaching in the red zone part of the street. When I looked at the old google map I saw a house that looked like an interesting older house. It had a turret and a pity that it has been demolished.