Meadow Street in Papanui – Named after The Meadows, a property belonging to Alfred Edward Tutton (1856- 1910). Tutton was a butcher. The Meadows was subdivided and sold by auction in 1908 and Meadow Street formed. First appears in street directories in 1911.
A small amount of information from the library website. Lots of information on Papers Past and it was mostly birth and death notices. The ad about the subdivision said that there was a total of 31 sections for sale. There were several Meadow Streets throughout the country including Kaiapoi. There were also several properties called The Meadows in Canterbury. In 1963 the Meadow Park Camping Ground was mentioned and this is likely to be now the Top 10 Holiday Park that is at the end of the street. The obituary for Alfred Edward Tutton dated 31st December said that he was born 1854 but he was actually born 1856. He was born in Biddisham in Somerset and came to NZ in 1876 in the ship Border Chief. He started his butchery in Papanui soon after arriving in NZ. He had several properties including Bramdean in Amberley where he died. He was only 54 when he died. The family trees on ancestry website didn’t have much information.
For a small street there are a lot of houses but most are multi dwellings. There is one house from 1910 but it didn’t really stand out as an older houses. There are houses from every decade but most are from 1970s and 1990s. There is a block of houses built this year. Looked like a pleasant street but I imagine the street could get busy with campervans and holiday makers with the Top 10 at the end of the street. I did find the geocache that I was looking for today.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 