Louisa Chandler Place in the suburb of Linwood, Christchurch

Louisa Chandler Place in Linwood -Named after Louisa Brittan, née Chandler, (1810?- 1901). Louisa Brittan was the wife of William Guise Brittan (1809-1876), commissioner of Crown lands for Canterbury in 1853 and also a newspaper editor. They lived at Englefield in Fitzgerald Avenue. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. I walked this street in December 2019 and not sure why I hadn’t written it up. I remember that I was geocaching in the area and didn’t find the cache. There are houses here but I couldn’t find out any information about them. It is a very leafy and pleasant looking private lane and is at the back of Englefield. Louisa’s husband William Guise Brittan built the house Englefield and sold it in 1864. Louisa was born in 1809 and died in August 1901 aged 91. She married William Guise Brittan in Weymouth on 17th February 1842.One of Louisa’s daughters Emily Sophia Foster was the third principal of Christchurch Girls High from 1894 to 1897. There were comments in various pages online about how unusual that a married woman with children reached such a position. Sadly Emily Foster died suddenly on 30th December 1897 just after her 55th birthday. This interested me as I went to Girls High.