Albert Wills Avenue in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Albert Wills Avenue and nothing on library website. The council website has it as Albert Wills Avenue but valuation websites including the official QV one all have it as Albert Willis Avenue. I double checked and maps and signposts have the correct name of Albert Wills Avenue. I seem to have one a lot of editing for this write up

I thoroughly searched Papers Past and ancestry website for Albert Willis and Albert Wills and couldn’t find anyone with these names living in this area. I also checked cemetery websites with no luck. It is possible that they owned land here but didn’t live here.

Edited as I have found out who Albert Wills is and I personally think it is an insult that the Valuation websites have got his name wrong. All the streets in the subdivision of 340 Halswell Junction Rd have been named after young men whose names are on the Halswell War Memorial. Albert Victor Wills was born 27th June 1897 in Sydenham. He went to Sydenham School and then Christchurch Technical College. He falsified his age to go to war. He looked so young in the photo that I found online. He was killed in action on 25th September 1916 and there is a memorial to him at Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial in Longueval, Somme in France

There are 12 houses here with all bar one built in 2019 and 2020. There was a huge property that I liked but didn’t manage a photo of it. The valuation website says it was built in 1910 and QV website say 1914. There is no way I would have picked this house as being that old and it must have been thoroughly updated. I did attempt to look at street view but this street didn’t exist before 2019 and older street views of Halswell Junction Road has a huge hedge in the way. It was a neat and tidy street and at the entrance on a wall there are the words Copper Ridge.