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Convoy St in New Brighton- Formerly Waverley Street. Named after “Waverley” a novel written by Sir Walter Scott. Re-named Convoy Street. A convoy is a group of vehicles (of any type, but usually motor vehicles or ships) travelling together for mutual support. Waverley Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1897 when a petition …

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Stening Place in Burwood – Named in 1996.The library website entry was extremely brief. I couldn’t find out how this street got it’s name. I found several people with the surname Stening but none that lived in this area. The name that came up most frequently in Papers Past was George Stening but he lived …

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Belair Close in Burwood – Named after Belinda Blair. Kevin and Judy Blair bought a horse paddock off New Brighton Road for their daughter’s horse in the early 1980s and later subdivided the land. Judy Blair was a well known netball coach in the late 1960s and her daughter, Belinda, became a Silver Fern netball …

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Schumacher Place in Burwood – Named after Edith Amelia Donnell, née Schumacher, (1904-1982). Edith Donnell and her husband, Horace Alexander Donnell (1903?-1965), farmed the land where this street was formed for many years. They bought their land from Edmund Norcross Corser (1840-1901). Named in 2005. A small amount of information from the library website and …

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Elsie Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from council website. Elsie Street – William and Elsie lived at Murphys Road from about 1920 and had two sons while they were there. They farmed wheat and potatoes and milked cows. The milk was sold in Christchurch.Road names …

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Blue Jacket Drive in Halswell and the street is too new to be on the library website but found information on the council website. From the council website. Blue Jacket Drive – The name of the ship Ellen O’Driscoll (Conailus wife) arrived in Canterbury on. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads …

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Skibbereen Drive in Halswell and the street is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website – The town in Ireland where Ellen Murphy (wife of Conailus) came from. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road …

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Mardyke Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website. From Skibbereen Township in Ireland, the district where the family originated. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road and Murphys Road. …

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Conailus Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website – First name of the first owner of the property who arrived in Christchurch in 1863 (from Country Cork). Married Ellen O’Driscoll in 1869 and purchased the Halswell property in 1871. Road names have been …

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Kilmurry Street in Halswell and the street is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website. The parish/district name given to the village where Conailus came from. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road and Murphys …

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