Wrey Jury Lane in the suburb of Dallington, Christchurch

Wrey Jury Lane in Dallington – Named after Wrey Hamilton Jury (1917-2003). Jury was a former longstanding owner and local identity. He was enrolled at the Sumner School for Deaf Children in 1926. Developed in 2005 by Horncastle Homes.

A small amount of information from the library website. I checked the Ancestry website and Wrey Jury lived at 71 Birchfield Ave where this lane was developed. He was born in Auckland and his occupation was cleaner. The name Wrey was so unusual that I expected to find it as a surname in his family but nothing. It doesn’t look like he ever married.

There are only two houses here built in 2000 but going by a map there is space for four more houses to be built.

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