Carinya Lane in Heathcote – Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is aboriginal for “habitat”- Named in 1997. Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is
aboriginal for “habitat” or from an Australian source “a happy, peaceful home” Not known which Aboriginal language the word came from.
A small amount of information from the library website and the new library website included the happy, peaceful home.
Not much information on Papers Past and there were lots of ads for the orchard that was at 154 Port Hills Road. I couldn’t find out the owner of the orchard.
I didn’t actually walk this street as it looked more like a private driveway and didn’t have a footpath. It runs off Mauger Drive which I walked in October 2020 so it is another street that I am surprised that I hadn’t already researched.
Edited as I managed to find out that William Thomas Thompson owned the orchard. Papers Past had an article where he was claiming money from the Heathcote County Council in 1958 as they had cut down his hedge which was a windbreak for his fruit trees. The council were widening the road and he was also claiming compensation for his land that was taken for the road widening. In 1925 he was upset because his war disability pension was stopped. He died in 1976 aged 95 and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery. He was born in New Zealand to Irish parents. His death notice doesn’t mention his wife and it looks like she left him sometime between 1948 and 1952.
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