Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vivian
Street
Voelas
Road
Former
name
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named after
Reginald Gordon
Vivian Muirson
(1913-1990).
Named after
Voelas in
Denbighshire,
North Wales.
Burwood Muirson was a builder of
‘spec’ houses in the 1940s,
1950s and 1960s.
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
Lyttelton Charlotte Griffith Wynne
(1821-1907) married John
Robert Godley in 1846 and
accompanied him to
Canterbury. According to
family information she was
born at Voelas.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1851
when land for sale there is
advertised.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 94 of 95
8 August 2013
Edna Street,
Glenrowan
Avenue,
Reginald
Place,
Sharlick
Street and
Woolley
Street.
Information
researched during the
1970s by Guy Bliss,
a teacher and local
historian.
Muirson’s dates
supplied in 2008 by
Marie Shears,
formerly Woolley.
The story of
Lyttelton, 1849-1949,
p 35
Lyttelton: port and
town : an illustrated
history, p 30
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times,
4 October 1851, p 4
View the biography
of Charlotte Godley
in the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
Letters from early
New Zealand 1850-
1853