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Current
name
Christchurch Street Names: S
Former
name
Short Street Elizabeth
Street
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Formerly
Elizabeth Street.
Probably named
after Elizabeth
Wilson, née
Williams.
Re-named Short
Street. Named
because it is a
short street
leading to Te
Wai Pounamu
Maori Girls’
College.
Waltham Elizabeth Wilson was the eldest
daughter of John and Isabella
Williams and wife of William
Barbour Wilson (1819-1897).
Wilson was a nurseryman,
businessman and local politician
who owned Rural Section 48
where this street was formed.
Elizabeth Wilson was the first
mayoress of Christchurch.
Elizabeth Street appears on an
1874/75 Deposit Plan.
Re-named Short Street in 1899
by the Linwood Borough
Council.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 48 of 136
8 August 2013
Barbour
Street, Grafton
Street,
Grenville
Street, Henry
Street,
Laurence
Street and
Williams
Street.
Plan of suburban
property (Rural Section
48) situated on the Ferry
Road near the East
Town Belt belonging to
William Wilson Esq.,
Deposit Plan 27
1874/75. Map held by
Bob Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
[The land, 150 acres in
Ferry Road, had
originally been
purchased by W.
Draper, father-in law of
J. E. Fitzgerald.]
"Linwood", The Press,
10 January 1899, p 3
The descendants of
John and Mary
Gebbie, p 15
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased
to April 30 1863, p
2
View the biography
of William Barbour
Wilson in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: W620
“William Wilson –
landowner and
early nurseryman”,
The Press, 20 May
1978, p 13