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Romanee Lane in Wigram – Named after a person connected to the Mauger family. The Maugers have been longstanding contractors and developers throughout Canterbury. A small amount of information from the new library website. This surprised me as none of the other streets in the area are on the library website and they are older …

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William Dawson Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. Council website didn’t give a reason for the street name. Between Papers Past and Ancestry website I found a William Henry Dawson who was a farmer in the area. The houses here were built between 2016 and 2018 and they are ugly modern houses …

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Tippet Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. The council website didn’t give a reason for the name of the street. Between Ancestry website and Papers Past I found several people with the Tippet surname who farmed on Middle Lincoln Rd. Middle Lincoln Rd is now Wigram Rd. The houses here are mostly …

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Woodcock Road in Wigram and too new for library website. I couldn’t find the reason for the street name on the council website but personally I feel that it was probably named after a person. I searched the Ancestry website and found several people with that surname but none who lived in the area. At …

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Mays Road in St Albans – formerly May’s Road. Named after George May (1831-1917). May’s Road first appears in the Star in 1882 when land there is advertised for sale. May, a carrier, is a resident of the street in 1890 when it first appears in street directories. He later farmed at Broadfield. A small …

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Chapter Street in St Albans – Named after a position in the Anglican church. A chapter is the name given to the clergy associated with a cathedral. It usually consists of the dean of the cathedral and residentiary canons. One of a number of streets with names with Anglican associations, chosen when the Church Property …

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Tavendale Place in St Albans – Formed on land previously owned by Ernest Alexander Ching (1910?-1969), a carpenter. In 1957 he is listed as living at 117 Mays Road where this street was formed. Named in 1955. First appears in street directories in 1960. A reasonable amount of information from the library but I couldn’t …

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Mathias Street in St Albans – Named after Archdeacon Octavius Mathias (1805-1864). Mathias was the vicar of Christchurch and the commissary of Bishop Selwyn. Formed on land that had been originally owned by the Anglican diocese. Described as a “new” street in The Press in 1926 when the Church Property Trustees advertises sections for sale …

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Samantha Lawry Road in Hornby and it is too new to be on the library website or on google maps. I managed to find out who Samantha Lawry was and it is very sad. She died in a car accident in 2001 aged 12. The accident was on an icy road in the middle of …

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Schofield Lane in Hornby and too new to be on the library website about streets. I couldn’t find the council information but I found a wee bit of information on a different part of the library website – Typescript draft titled historical information in the Wigram area by W. Raymond Schofield, detailing the history of …

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