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Desi Place – nothing on new or old library website. I couldn’t find out anything about this street. I checked council minutes but that only gave me information about restricting parking on the street. I have come up with a theory about the name of the street but couldn’t find any proof. The street runs …

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Ketton Place in St Albans – Named after Ketton, a village and civil parish in Rutland in the East Midlands of England. Named because it is near Rutland Street. First appears in street directories in 1970. A small amount of information on the library website. Most entries were ads for the sale of houses and …

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Kenwyn Ave in St Albans – Named after Ken and Winston Nicholls, two sons of the developer. Formed on 5 acres of land off Mays Road owned by Percy Stanley Nicholls (d. 1974), a land agent.A Papanui war memorial street. First appears in street directories in 1950. Information supplied in 2006 by Eileen Thomson in …

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Mary Carpenter Avenue in Yaldhurst and Hei Hei and it is too new for the library website. Information from the council website – The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. The reason for this theme is …

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Hunia Place in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Huhana (Susan) Enright nee Hunia (1902-1981) is the Great, Great Grandmother of the developer, and is from Pawarenga in the Hokianga (Far North). Susie was born on 21 March 1902, of the Te Uri o Tai hapu and …

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Arabella Crescent in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Arabella Andersen was one of the first signatories of the Suffrage Petition and lived nearby. Checked Papers Past and Ancestry. Note her surname was spelt Anderson and there were two women with the same name who signed the …

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Ada Wells Court in Yaldhurst – too new for the library website. Information from the council website – the first female Christchurch City Councillor. The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. Te Ara – Dictionary of …

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Navarra Road in Halswell and too new for the library website. Council website said that the street was named after the racehorse Navarra Franco. The houses here have been built between 2022 and 2024 with some empty sections still. No photos as nothing stood out for me here. Modern houses with lawns and shrubs. No …

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Whitburn Avenue in Halswell and too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website – Whitburn is understood to be the place where John Miln’s mother Catherine lived after his father in Scotland. That sentence from the council website makes no sense at all. It should say after his father died. …

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Collier Drive in Halswell and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Jean Collier was one of the first New Zealand women to own property in New Zealand. It would have saved me a lot of time if the council website had her correct name of Jeanie Collier. Last night …

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