Mary Carpenter Avenue in Yaldhurst and Hei Hei and it is too new for the library website. Information from the council website – The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. The reason for this theme is that the first women to sign the original petition, Mary Carpenter, lived at the site under development.
Mary Carpenter and her husband did live here and her husband was a farmer. I checked Ancestry and Papers Past but the best information was from several articles written in 2018 about Mary. Best to search under Mary Jane Carpenter to get the correct person. The family claimed that they were possibly related to Bishop Harper as they had an ancestor with the surname Harper. It is highly unlikely and you always have to take family stories with a grain of salt. I found this out when researching my own family tree.
Most houses here were built in 2020 and are in Yaldhurst. There are a few houses still being built and they are in Hei Hei. I had to check maps as the valuation website was a bit confusing.
The houses didn’t really stand out for me and but there is a nice wide footpath. Pity it is a shared footpath with cyclists. There is a walkway that leads to a reserve plus another walkway that goes nowhere. I chatted with a local and he didn’t know if it would eventually become a proper walkway. A few houses here had Christmas lights so it would be very colourful at night.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 