Woolston / Heathcote Cemetery Tour - Christchurch City Libraries

In February 1927 Richardson moved to 406 Papanui Road. This road had been the
first thoroughfare along which he had travelled in 1870. He died, at 82, on 13 July
1927.
Sullivan Avenue was once Richardson Street. There is now a Richardson Terrace
which runs along the Heathcote River to Opawa Road.
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No. 48
Hawker
In England William Hawker married Ann Parsons. William was a successful baker
in Woolston and had an orchard in Princes Street, now Rutherford Street. He was a
solid citizen and chairman of the Heathcote Road Board.
At the Hawkers’ house, Ann’s sister, Louisa, married a shopkeeper, Joseph Harrop
Hopkins. In 1870, at a meeting about the Ferry Road Drain, Joseph suggested that the
name ‘Lower Heathcote’ be abandoned and ‘Woolston’ taken in its stead. There are
two places in England with the name Woolston and it is not clear which place
Hopkins was thinking of when he put the name forward. Louisa and Joseph are
buried not at Heathcote but at the Addington Cemetery.
William and Ann had no children. However, a number of their relatives are buried at
Heathcote. William’s father, George, of ‘Ashbourne’, an area on Ferry Road, died, at
79, in 1894. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery. Also interred at
Heathcote are William’s sister and brother-in-law, Eliza Catherine and Thomas
Plumridge; his sister-in-law, Priscilla Hawker; and Priscilla’s daughter-in-law and
her adopted son, Sarah Ann and Laurie Hawker.
William Hawker, 74, died at Princes Street, Woolston, on 8 October 1913.
Ann Hawker, 89, died at Princess Street, Woolston, on 24 February 1921
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No. 59
Pavitt
Augustus Reid Pavitt was born on 11 March 1840. His parents, John and Elizabeth,
farmed at Jackson’s Farm, part of Hill Farm, Theydon Garnon, near the Roding
River, Essex. The repeal of the Corn Laws together with potato blight, the lowering of
the value of farm produce and the fact that the new railway would bypass their farm
induced John and Elizabeth to leave their home and emigrate to New Zealand. Sons
who accompanied them were Frederick, Henry, Alfred, Francis, Thomas, Edward,
Augustus Reid and Spencer. Daughters were Elizabeth Ellen, Sarah Hannah, her
husband, John Parker, and their children, Herbert and John Gordon; and Mary Ann
and her fiancé, builder-architect Samuel Charles Farr. They sailed for Auckland on
the Monarch which left Gravesend on 22 November 1849.
Edward later recalled:
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