Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
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Current<br />
name<br />
Searells<br />
Avenue<br />
Searidge<br />
Lane<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>Street</strong> <strong>Names</strong>: S<br />
Former<br />
name<br />
Pearson<br />
Lane<br />
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Named after<br />
Thomas Searell<br />
(1811-1891).<br />
Strowan Searell, a miller, bought the<br />
Carlton Mill in 1865 and eight<br />
acres of land north of Normans<br />
Road in 1871 which he later<br />
subdivided and sold. In 1884 he<br />
and his family were living at<br />
Kilmore <strong>Street</strong> East.<br />
First appears in street directories<br />
in 1890.<br />
Sumner Pearson Lane first appears in<br />
street directories in 1993.<br />
Re-named Searidge Lane in<br />
1995.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong> Page 24 of 136<br />
8 August 2013<br />
Papanui Heritage Group<br />
“Births”, Star, 16 April<br />
1884, p 2<br />
St Albans: from<br />
swamp to suburbs:<br />
an informal history,<br />
pp 83-84<br />
G. R. Macdonald<br />
dictionary of<br />
Canterbury<br />
biographies: S163<br />
“Deaths”, The<br />
Press. 24 January<br />
1891, p 4<br />
Papanui cemetery,<br />
entry on Searell<br />
family
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