Blakiston St in Hoon Hay – Probably named after the Hon. Charles Robert Blakiston (1825- 1898). Blakiston was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council in the 1850s and 1860s. In 1858 he married Mary Anna Harper, a daughter of Bishop Harper. Named in 1959.
A small amount of information from the library website. Not a lot of information on Papers Past. It was a new street name in 1959 and there were sections for sale in 1961 and 1962. In 1966 there was a proposal to build a petrol station on the corner of Blakiston St and Hoon Hay Rd but this was rejected. There were several death, birth and engagement notices. Many real estates ads put the street in Lower Cashmere but it is officially in Hoon Hay.
Charles Blakiston died aged 73 and his obituary said that he had land on Ferry Rd and then in Kaiapoi when he farmed. He was manager of Trust and Agency Company of Australia Ltd. He married Mary Anna Harper on the same day that her sister married one of the Tripp family. After his death Mary Anna Blakiston moved to Dannevirke where one of their sons was living. She died in 1924. There is a place in South Australia with the same name and it is named after the same family. I sidetracked a bit as the brother of Charles Blakiston was more interesting. Thomas Blakiston was an English explorer and naturalist. Thomas had an owl named after him.
All the houses here were built in 1960s and none of them stood out for me. They were mostly neat and tidy houses and I didn’t take any photos.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 