Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
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Gasson Street – Part of Madras Street, the section of the street south of Moorhouse Avenue. Named after the Gasson family. The Gasson family were early settlers in this area. Charles Gasson (1846?- 1905), a carpenter, lived with his wife, Harriet, at Sixth Street (later Stanley Street). Named Gasson Street on 1 September 1948 when …
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Hawdon Street -Named after the Honourable Joseph Hawdon (1813-1871) and his son, Arthur Joseph Hawdon (1844-1920). Hawdon was an explorer in Australia and a runholder in Australia and New Zealand. He lived in New Zealand from 1863 and was appointed a member of the Legislative Council by the Stafford ministry of 1866. He died in …
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Kingsley Street – Formerly part of Third Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Kingsley Street. Named after Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Third Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1873. Does not appear in street directories, only maps. On a 1879 map it is shown …
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Maldon Street – formerly Matson Street Probably named after Maldon in Essex. Matson Street first appears in the Star in 1876 in an inquest report. First appears in street directories in 1887. Re-named Maldon Street on 24 May 1926 when 21 streets were renamed.A small amount of information from the library website. A small street …
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Washington Way — Named after the Washington, the first train to travel from Christchurch to Dunedin. Named because the street was developed near the site of the Moorhouse Avenue Railway Station subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1995.A small amount of information from the library website. That information was more interesting than I was …
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Willowbrook Place –Named after Willowbrook, the town house in Fendalton Road belonging to, and named by, John Barton Arundel Acland (1823- 1904). He named his property after the childhood home of his wife. William Widdowson (1833-1915) originally bought the land, part of Rural Section 60, from William Guise Brittan in 1865 and built a 12-room …
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Fendalton Rd – formerly Fendall Town Road. Princess/Princ es Street was incorporated into Fendalton Road. Named after Walpole Cheshire Fendall (1830– 1913) Fendall Town Road was cut through Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town purchased by W. C. Fendall. Fendall Town Road is first mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1857. Fendalton Road …
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Quamby Place – Named after the brook which ran beside the Tasmanian home of Thomas Gregory Russell (1850-1935). Russell came to Christchurch to live on five acres of land in the 1870s, naming his property, Quamby. A son was born to the Russells at Quamby in 1892. The property was sold to the McLean Institute …
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Wood Lane formerly Park Lane -Named after William Derisley Wood (1824- 1904). Park Lane is first mentioned in The Press in 1884 in a report of a meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1900. Re-named Wood Lane in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named. …
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Heathfield Ave formerly Heathfield Road -Named after Heathfield, the property of William Cuddon (1834-1924). Land belonging to Cuddon, a brewer and maltster, was sub-divided into 32 sections in 1913 and auctioned. A house was built there for Geoffrey Ernest Fitzhardinge Kingscote (1889?-1949), an accountant, and his wife, Florence Agnes Placida Kingscote, née Humphries, (1889-1975), ready …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project