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Plunket Street in Spreydon – Formerly Schauman Street. May be named after Karl Osten Schauman (1874?-1935). Re-named Plunket Street. Named after Sir William Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket (1864-1920). Schauman was born in Finland and emigrated to New Zealand. He was described as a gentleman of Sumner in 1906 and was involved with the Canterbury …

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Rustic Lane in Spreydon. This street isn’t on the library website. It is a private lane that runs off Lyttelton Street between 353 and 355 Lyttelton Street. I couldn’t find out how the lane got it’s name and the meaning of rustic is relating to countryside or rural. All the houses here are from the …

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Redruth Ave in Spreydon – Probably named after Redruth in Cornwall, England. Not much information from the library website. I found a reasonable amount of information on Papers Past but not much on ancestry website. The land was owned by James William Smitham who lived on Selwyn St. Some of the land possibly originally belonged …

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Dundee Place in Spreydon – Named in 1955. Not a lot of information on the library website. This street runs off Edinburgh St where 17 and 19 Edinburgh St would have been. Most streets in this area have a Scottish theme. Most houses are built in 1950 and at the end of the street there …

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Urella Place in Spreydon. This street isn’t on the library website yet it dates back to the 1970s. Strangely for a street that was developed back then there is a footpath on only one side of the street. Older streets normally have footpaths on both sides of the street. Most houses date from 1970s with …

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Glynne Crescent in Spreydon – Named after Mary, Baroness Lyttelton, née Glynne, (1813-1857). Mary was the wife of Sir George William Lyttelton, 4th Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley (1817-1876). He was a member of the Canterbury Association from 1848. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed …

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Gleig Place in Spreydon- Named after the George Robert Gleig (1796- 1888). Gleig was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848 until he resigned 25 November 1851. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Canterbury Association and, especially, the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, …

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Weir Place in Hoon Hay- Named after the Weir family. Henry Weir (1835?- 1884) and his wife, Mary Jane, settled in Halswell in 1863, living on Hoon Hay Road. Their son, Walter Henry Weir (1877-1935) farmed at Dalkeith, 99 Hoon Hay Road. He “always took a keen interest in the affairs of the Cashmere – …

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Smartlea Street in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1953.A tiny amount of information from the library which is disappointing as the street is named after an interesting man. There is also a Smarts Road in Hornby named after the same man. Lea means a meadow or field so the meaning of …

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Haddon Lane in Harewood. There was nothing on the library website about this street. I assumed that it was because it was a very new street so was very surprised to find that the houses date from 1995 and 2005. The houses were huge and there are only 9 houses here. One house was very …

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