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Mardyke Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website. From Skibbereen Township in Ireland, the district where the family originated. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road and Murphys Road. …

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Conailus Street in Halswell and it is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website – First name of the first owner of the property who arrived in Christchurch in 1863 (from Country Cork). Married Ellen O’Driscoll in 1869 and purchased the Halswell property in 1871. Road names have been …

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Kilmurry Street in Halswell and the street is too new to be on the library website. Information from the council website. The parish/district name given to the village where Conailus came from. Road names have been requested by Alan Ye for roads at the Cloverden subdivision on the corner of Halswell Junction Road and Murphys …

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Terrelle St in New Brighton- Named after Terrelle, near Cassino in Italy. Private Patrick John Ryan (1923?-1944), a soldier in the New Zealand Infantry, was killed at Terrelle during World War II. He was a son of William Nicholas Ryan (1885?-1950), a contractor, and brother of Bernie and Jack Ryan, builders and developers. Named by …

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Willryan Ave in New Brighton – Named after William Nicholas Ryan (1885-1950). This was the first road developed through a block of land once owned by Ryan. The name was suggested by his wife, Mary Catherine Ryan (1892-1978). First appears in street directories in 1960. Information supplied in 2008 by Ryan’s son, Jack Ryan, in …

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Sandy Ave in New Brighton- Named after a very high sand ridge that had to be removed before development could proceed. Named by Mary Catherine Ryan (1892-1978), wife of William Nicholas Ryan (1885-1950), a contractor. First appears in street directories in 1964.Information supplied in 2008 by the Ryans’ son, Jack Ryan, in a letter to …

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Hawke St in New Brighton – Formerly Hawkes Street. Named after James George Hawkes (b. 1832). Re-named Hawke Street. Named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke of Towton (1705-1781). Hawkes, an auctioneer, married Sarah Jane Herbert in 1852. She died in 1853 and he married Lucy James Sparshott in 1854. They emigrated to Canterbury on …

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Howe St in New Brighton – Formerly Lucy Street. Named after Lucy James Hawkes, née Sparshott, (1833?-1918). Re-named Howe Street. Named after Lord Richard Howe (1726-1799)Lucy Hawkes was the wife of James George Hawkes, an auctioneer who split up much of the land in central New Brighton in the late 1870s. Lucy Street is first …

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Keppel St in New Brighton – Formerly Sparshott Street. Named after Lucy James Hawkes, née Sparshott,(1833?-1918). Re-named Keppel Street. Named after Augustus, Viscount Keppel (1725-1786). Lucy Hawkes was the wife of James George Hawkes, an auctioneer, who split up much of the land in central New Brighton in the late 1870s. Sparshott Street was formed …

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Tangmere Place in Burwood – Named after Tangmere, a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. First appears in street directories in 1987.A small amount of information from the library website. Most of the houses here were built in the 1980s and there was also a wee reserve …

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