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Concillor Paul Hofensperger was born on the Howard housing estate and represents the St Olave's Ward of Bury St Edmunds (which includes that estate).
Housing developments are often named after people who have been involved with the development or for a prominent towns person at the time of the building work.
Why not email Paul and see if he knows, if he doesn't I bet he will know how to find out via Edmundsbury Borough Council
http://paulhopfensperger.blogspot.com/2007/03/risbygate-street-that-was-then-this-is.htmlSM ...
Every time I find an ancestor,
I have to find two more!
SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham - all link to Framlingham
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally Framlingham/Parham)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert & Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith LDN - Fulker
LDN/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
GGfather Michael Wilson born Cork, lived Fulham London - moved to Boston USA 1889, what happened next?