Arabella Crescent in the suburb of Yaldhurst, Christchurch

Arabella Crescent in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Arabella Andersen was one of the first signatories of the Suffrage Petition and lived nearby. Checked Papers Past and Ancestry. Note her surname was spelt Anderson and there were two women with the same name who signed the Petition. They were mother and daughter. Sadly the daughter died suddenly in 1896 aged 24 from a perforated ulcer. I couldn’t find any evidence that the family ever lived in this area. Charles and Arabella Anderson lived in Rangiora and Arabella moved to Christchurch after her husband died. She was living in Merivale when she died.

Most houses here were built in 2020 and I didn’t take any photos. There is a walkway that leads to a reserve. I didn’t like this street as there wasn’t a footpath so I had to walk on the road.

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