Deavoll Place in Heathcote – Named after Daniel Deavoll (1858?-1929). Deavoll was a carpenter who lived at 123 Bridle Path Road. He named his son, Daniel Stanley Heathcote Deavoll (1898-1974). The family’s fourth generation was still resident in the Heathcote Valley at the time the street was named in 2003.
A small amount of information from the library website. Looked at Papers Past and most entries there were about his death. At least one headline said Old Man’s Death. Daniel died suddenly aged 71 of a heart attack at 6 o’clock in Lyttelton when leaving the steamer Piaka. He had been working on the Piaka. No inquest required as he was known to have heart problems. The only other entries for him were about his wedding and in 1899 he dissolved his partnership in a dairy farm.
Not many houses here and they didn’t stand out but what did stand out was a huge empty overgrown section with a big house bus on the section. There was also an entrance to a walkway so I decided to walk to Ferrymead Park area via this walkway.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 