Scarff Place in Cashmere – Named after Walter William Prideaux Scarff (1880?-1944). Scarff was a member of the Heathcote County Council 1914- 1935 and, for a time, chairman. He was county inspector from 1935 until his death. First appears in street directories in 1995.Information supplied in 2007 by Alan Copping, a grandson of Walter Scarff, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A small amount of information from the library website. I checked ancestry website and Prideaux was his mother’s maiden name.
A lot of information on Papers Past about Walter Scarff’s council work but the saddest information that I found was about his daughter. In 1927 Gwendoline Scarff was found murdered in Burwood. A taxi driver who had been her lover was arrested and he was charged with her murder and also charged with giving her a drug. The wording about the drug was rather strange but I found a court document on ancestry website which explained the strange wording. The drug was apparently for procuring an abortion. The man accursed was a married man with two children. He was found not guilty and it looks like he moved to Australia with his family.
Only 12 houses on this street and most were built in the 1990s. A variety of styles and the houses were huge. At the end of the street there is the start to the Latters Spur Track.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 