Thomas Ellis Lane in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council website only had the name and didn’t give a reason for the name. I searched Papers Past, Ancestry website and Findagrave but couldn’t find the person this street was named after.
Edited as I now have realised that the streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road are named after the young men who are on the Halswell War Memorial and died in World War One. The online centoph has been a big help for information. Thomas Henry Ellis lived at Hoon Hay Road when he enlisted in July 1915. He died from wounds on 20th September 1916 and is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt-l’Abbe Somme in France.
The street only had a footpath on one side and it ran from John Holmes Rd and curved around back to John Holmes Rd. I am sure that it is a nice street but too noisy for me. I checked maps to find out where the noise was coming from and it was a race track for something called Kartsport. That constant noise all day long would be horrible.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 