Dovedale Ave in Ilam – Named after Dovedale, a village in Derbyshire. Sarah Hodgkinson, née Mellor, (1825?-1895) was born in Dovedale. She and her husband Charles Hodgkinson (1826-1888) were employed at Ilam Hall, having been among the servants who sailed to Canterbury with the Hon. John Watts-Russell in 1858. Hodgkinson is described as a “gardener of Ilam farm” on the 1860-1861 Christchurch Militia List. He was the verger at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Upper Riccarton 1861-1888. First appears in street directories in 1972.
A small amount of information from the library website and there is a small mistake in this information as Dovedale isn’t a village in England. It is actually called Dovedale Valley and the village in Dovedale is called Ilam. I have also added Dovedale Valley to my list of places to travel to. Every entry in Papers Past related to the teachers college. I walked this street over a week ago when I was doing a geocaching lab adventure. One side of the street is part of the University Campus and there are student hostels here. The student hostel is called Sonoda Village. The other side of the street had houses that were built in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the houses looked more modern than having been built in those two decades. I remember dropping off two overseas students here after a walk with the 360 trail group about two and half years ago. One of the students was studying braided rivers and New Zealand obviously have the best examples of braided rivers.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 