Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Urunga
Avenue
Former
name
Hancocks
Road
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Formerly
Hancocks Road.
Named after
Thomas
Hancock (1812-
1898).
Re-named
Urunga Road.
Named after
Urunga, the
house at 51
Normans Road
owned by
Samuel Rollin
Webb (1848-
1933).
Strowan Hancocks Road first appears
in street directories in 1903.
Hancock was a grocer, soap
manufacturer and brewer.
After his death his daughters,
Julia (1854-1934), and Emily
Clara (1857?-1937), stayed
on in the family home in
Hancocks Road until 1927.
Re-named Urunga Avenue in
1928.
Webb was a mayor of
Lyttelton who moved to 51
Normans Road in 1913. He
named his house there
Urunga, after his former
home in Lyttelton which was
named by a Māori chief
because of the hospitality
shown to the Māori by the
family on the walk from
Lyttelton to Rapaki. Urunga
means: a place of peace.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 77 of 95
8 August 2013
Brenchley
Avenue
Papanui Heritage
Group
G. R. Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: H 116
& W279
“Deaths”, Star, 20
August 1898, p 4
“Mr Thomas
Hancock”, Star, 19
August 1898, p 3
"A resident for 60
years", The Papanui
Herald, 22 August
1972, p 5
[An interview with
Adelaide Ivy Webb
(1894?-1983), a
descendant of
Samuel Webb.
There is a
photograph of
Urunga in the
article.]