• CASHMERE – Sir John Cracroft-Wilson (1808 – 1881)

    To look at him, you would never guess that he was born in India! It was only his health that caused him to look for a cooler climate and Christchurch looked good! Sent to England for his schooling, John returned to India to work as a civil servant. He married Elizabeth Wall while in England …

  • ST ALBANS – Harriet Mellon (1777 – 1837)

    Many of the early settlers just kept going past the area of St Albans. It wasn’t just the extremely boggy land, but the 10 foot or so toi toi was also a great deterent! If that wasn’t enough for some, the horse and buggy that disappeared in the mud never to be seen again was …

  • ARANUI – George Kyndon Burton (1859 – 1957)

    Aranui means “Great Path” and first appeared as the name of the area’s new Post Office that opened in 1912. The man that came up with that name was George Kyndon Burton who by trade was a market gardener. His main claim to fame was working on the project to extend Pages Road to Bexley. …

  • TEMPLETON & WEEDONS – Edward Merson Templar & William Weeden

    The first signs of European life started to appear in Templeton and Weedons around 1860. Before that, Templeton was known as the nothern end of James Edward Fitzgerald’s sheep station, ‘The Springs’. It was named because of the many water springs on his run (where the town of Lincoln is today) and they still bubble …

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