Mortens Lane in Mt Pleasant – Named after Richard May Morten (1823- 1909). Morten was a sheep farmer and benefactor of the Anglican Church. He owned the Mount Pleasant run and a quarry on Dyers Pass Road and also Morten’s Block on the south-west side of Cathedral Square. He lived at Stoneycroft, Hornby. First appears in street directories in 1976.
A reasonable of information from the library website. Papers Past had only seven entries about the street and a couple of them were ads for sections in the early 1980s. Lots of information about Richard Morten on Papers Past and he left England for Victoria and Tasmania in 1859 but he was a sheep farmer at Rakaia by 1860. He purchased Mt Pleasant Run and other sheep stations. He had a quarry at Mt Somers and the stone from this quarry was used on many of the buildings in Christchurch including Morten’s Block which was also known as Morten’s Building. This building was sold in 1882 and it eventually became the United Service Hotel.
Only 5 properties on this street and the houses were built in 1940, 1980, 2015 and 2020. One property doesn’t seem to have a house on it. I didn’t actually walk this street as there wasn’t a footpath and it just looked like a driveway to a house. If there hadn’t been a sign with the street name I wouldn’t have known that it was a street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 