Pilkington Way in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Pilkington Way in Wigram – Named after the Pilkington family. The source says the family has had “a long association with Canterbury”. Developed by Laing Contractors/Calcon Asphalt Ltd. Named in 2003

A small amount of information from the library website. I checked Ancestry website and the surname was more common than I was expecting. I didn’t find anyone with that name who lived or farmed in the area. I found council minutes from 2003 which just said that the name had been approved and that three pages of information about the family had been given to Board members. The new library website added this information which wasn’t on the old website. Further information Possibly this Pilkington family;

G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: P403a. Note the links on the new website don’t work but I managed to find out that G R Macdonald dictionary was referring to a Benjamin Pilkington. I didn’t bother researching any further.

This street was developed in a new business subdivision and it obviously has businesses here. One business which takes up a huge section is Viridian Glass and there is a Tesla Service Centre on the street as well. I was going to walk this street a few years ago as Hancocks Wine and Spirit Merchants are on this street. My son worked for Hancocks and I was going to have a bit of fun and stir him by joking that I was stalking him. My son was made redundant after lockdown so that took all the fun out of that. The up side was that he got a much better job.