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Riversleigh Named after An area in Built by Francis Edward Stewart Street. Early Dallington, p 10 G. R Macdonald
Riversleigh, an Dallington in the Stewart (1833-1904), the first Also Avonside
dictionary of
early homestead loop of the Avon manager of the Bank of New and Woodham Avonside Parish leaflet, Canterbury
near the end of River in the Zealand and the deputy Park.
July 1930, pp 3-4, held biographies: S755
Morris Street. vicinity of superintendent of Canterbury
at Anglican Archives
Shelley Street. in 1867.
“Late Mr. G. H.
Another name for the river at
“Births”, Lyttelton Whitcombe”,
this point was Stewart’s
Times, 3 December Evening Post, 15
Corner.
Riversleigh is first mentioned
1863, p 4
August 1917, p 8
in the Lyttelton Times in 1863
“Advertisements”, Star,
in a birth notice for a stillborn
daughter born to the Stewarts.
24 April 1884, p 2
The property is described in
“Property sale”, The
the Star in 1884 when it is
Press, 21 December
advertised for sale or for rent.
G. H. Whitcombe sold it in
1892, p 6
1892, moving to Woodham
“Dallington”, The
after 1895.
Press, 4 January 1913,
p 5
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