Henry St in Waltham – Named after Henry Wilson. Wilson was the fourth son of William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897), nurseryman, businessman and local politician, and his wife, Elizabeth. He married Charlotte Cox of Featherston. He was in the hardware trade in Christchurch for a number of years and died in England. In a subdivision of Rural Section 48, land owned by William Wilson (1819-1897). Henry Street appears on an 1874/75 Deposit Plan. First appears in street directories in 1913. Plan of suburban property (Rural Section 48) situated on the Ferry Road near the East Town Belt belonging to William Wilson Esq., Deposit Plan 27 1874/75. Map held by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council. [The land, 200 acres in Ferry Road, had originally been purchased by G. Draper and his son in law, James Edward FitzGerald (1818?-1896).]
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I didn’t manage to get much information from Papers Past as there was a huge number of streets with the name Henry Street. A few entries using Opawa and Linwood but nothing using Waltham. A few death notices and recruitment notices. From 1950s onwards all the entries were for a business called Lomak Furniture including a big fire in 1974. It was also impossible to find any information about Henry Wilson on Papers Past thanks to a Sir Henry Wilson being assassinated. The ancestry website was of no help at all. All the family trees for this man had his father as William Balfour Wilson and family trees for William Barbour Wilson have a totally different family. I did find a grave for Henry Ernest Wilson in England.
This tiny street only has businesses in it and I didn’t take any photos
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 