Barbara Joan Road – Named after Barbara Joan Dellaca, née Lewis, (1952?- 2010). Mrs Dellaca was the wife of Peter Dellaca, owner of the land where the street was developed. Her family wished to “acknowledge Barbara’s history on the site” with the naming of the street. In a subdivision at 158- 160 Awatea Road. Named in 2015.

A small amount of information from the library website. The library didn’t have a suburb for this street and real estate agents have it in both Wigram and Hornby. I know that I will have met Barbara but can’t remember her. Peter and and Barbara were friends with my late brother.
A street with very new houses and still a few empty sections. The houses are mostly brick but none jumped out at me. There wasn’t even columns at the entrances of houses like many new subdivisions seem to have. Mostly lawns with a few shrubs and practically no flowers. Very boring. There was one interesting garden sculpture that I liked.

Zinnia Way – too new to be on the library website but is on google maps.

Information from council. That the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board resolve to approve the following road names:

Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. Road names have been requested by Awatea Park Limited for road(s) at Awatea Park in Hornby which is within a greenfield area bounded by Carrs Road, Awatea Road, Owaka Road and the Christchurch Southern Motorway. The suggested road names have a botanical theme.
Another street that can’t make its mind if it is in Hornby or Wigram.
Note there were several other small streets but I ran out of time to walk them today.
Houses are brand new and some are still being built. None of them stood out for me.There was a children’s playground here called Awatea Park.

Owaka Road and nothing on the library website. I had in my head that this was an older road but I must be wrong The council in 2017 have a note about Owaka Basin and a land swap. Parks Towing have a big property here. QV had 4 to 6 properties here but only one building dated 2011.
Not sure if Hornby or Wigram.
I did walk past at least two houses that looked older so a bit confusing. There is a reserve here that has drainage pipes and channels.There is a very clever geocache in the reserve.

A friend who lives in Hornby said that this road has been there for years and it was closed for a while a year or so ago while one of the new subdivisions was being developed.

Hulbert Street – Named after Charles Partridge Hulbert (1841- 1926). Hulbert, a hatter and mercer, was the mayor of Christchurch 1884 and 1885. During his mayoralty the Worcester Street bridge was built. First appears in street directories in 1917. Library acknowledged Richard Greenaway.

A small amount of information from the library website. Between Papers Past and Ancestry website I managed to find a reasonable of information about Charles Hulbert. He was born in Bristol, married in Melbourne, came to NZ in 1860 and was involved in the gold rush at Gabriel Gully. His obituary said that he also served in the Maori Wars.He died in Wellington but is buried in Christchurch. He was a hatter and lived in Cashel St and then Worcester St.
In 1896 he resigned as a JP in Christchurch and there was an ad in the same year where they were selling up their furniture and household effects. Charles in 1896 was given a leaving gift on the occasion of him moving to Auckland but by 1904 they were living in Wellington.
Charles was 84 when he died which would make him born 1842 and going by his father-in-law’s death notice the father-in-law was born in 1822 which must mean that Charles was a lot older than his wife.
I was amused by one family tree on the Ancestry website which had him born in Bristol, Massachusetts rather than Bristol, UK. Some family trees had him born in Bedminister, Somerset.
A short street with mostly lovely old villas.Looked like a nice street to live in.

Wyon Street – Named after Benjamin Wyon (1802-1858) and his son, Alfred Benjamin Wyon (1837-1884). Both men were medalists, die-sinkers, seal engravers and painters. Benjamin Wyon was Chief Engraver to the Seals and created the first Public Seal which arrived in New Zealand in 1841. The second was approved by Queen Victoria in 1848. Alfred Wyon designed the third seal, used 1881-1903. The seal represents the constitutional authority of the Crown in New Zealand. Formed in the early 20th century. A section for sale there is advertised in The Press in 1906. First appears in street directories in 1908.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I can’t see how I can add to this. The best information online is a wikipedia page under Seal of New Zealand. After checking the Ancestry website the Wyon family mostly lived in Middlesex. Sounds like they came from a long line of seal engravers etc.
A few new houses here but also some older wooden villas. Most were in a reasonable condition. A pleasant street and some of the gardens were lovely. Checking my photos I only managed one photo here and I thought that I would have taken more.

Buckleys Road – Named after George Buckley (1830- 1895). Buckley was a member of the Legislative Council 1871-1884 and also a partner in Dalgety & Co. He married Alexandrina McLean (1831?-1902). Buckley’s Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1877 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. Buckleys Road first appears in street directories in 1906. Library acknowledged Richard Greenaway.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Probably not a lot that I can add. I couldn’t find out where George is buried but his wife is buried at the Addington cemetery with the rest of the McLean family. It is the largest monument in this cemetery and every now and again an engineer will look at the monument to see if it can be fixed.
With a bit more research I managed to get confusing information about George Buckley’s death. Ancestry website have him buried in Barbadoes St cemetery. There is a wikipedia page for George and he was a partner in a Lyttelton business Dalgety, Buckley and Co. In the late 1880s he was president of the BNZ and he went to Melbourne after he resigned from the bank. The Wikipedia page has him dying in Melbourne where he is buried.

This street runs from Bromley Park to Linwood Ave. Eastgate Mall is the Linwood Ave end of the street. The houses are a mixture of a few newer places but most are older and rundown. The street has obviously been widened at some stage as many of the older houses had fences right up to the front windows. Open your windows are you would be practically hitting the fence.

After searching Papers Past there was a death notice for George Buckley and he died 19th November 1895 in Brighton, Melbourne and he was the eldest son of late Captain W H Buckley of the 82 Regiment. In 1888 he was on the Committee of Investigation for BNZ and in December 1889 there was a publication of a statement which would possibly lead to a panic amongst the depositors. He was in London in 1889.

McLean Street – Formerly St Heliers Street. Named after St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. Re-named McLean Street. Named after the McLean family. St Heliers Street first appears in street directories in 1914. Re-named McLean Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Named McLean Street because it is a side street running off Buckleys Road. Alexandrina McLean Buckley (1831?-1902), wife of George Buckley, was a sister of the McLean brothers, pastoralists, Allan (1822-1907) and “Big Jock” of Redcastle, North Otago (1818?- 1902). Library acknowledged Richard Greenaway

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Probably not a lot of information that I can add as the McLean name is fairly well-known in Christchurch. I managed to do a tour of McLean Mansion last year. There were some lovely wooden villas on this street. Also a couple of more modern houses and some rundown places. There was one fantastic Art Deco house.The houses were mostly on just one side of the street as there was a school that took up most of the other side. The school is Te Pa o Rakaihautu a character school that was set up in 2015.