Understanding NZ Directories street orientations

[Fresh Fields]

And finally [?] from me.

Today over a cuppa I finally found, and tapped into, local authority data like I am able to do so for the regions in the North Island, that are local to me.

It proves that the lot I was looking at/for, has been subdivided, and then subdivided again. With cross leasing etc, and more recent subdividing than was the case from 1900 to 1960, it is possible for more than one business or dwelling, to be sharing the same street address. Why land title data is so important when trying to place historic family connections to land.

Alan.

PS. Swapped image.

[Fresh Fields]

Hello again.

The STAR November 30th, 1933, page one, records the death of retired farmer David YOUNG “at his residence" not lodgings, 12 Hawdon Street Sydenham.

I would like to know how he is entered in electoral rolls before 1933, if his address is given as Hawdon Street Sydenham.  As I am yet to get my hands on deposit plans DP 36944, and DP 37202, with the units therein, which appear to involve some conjoint land ownership over original survey lots, or part lots, that historically used 10, 12, and 14 Hawdon Street, as their street address after 1909.

Has anyone got access to NZ electoral roll data addresses, as I do not? Also how was Miss J WELSH listed until 1962.

From home accessible data, it is evident that the William WELSH property on Hawdon Street, was from 1903 to 1909 listed with a street address, recorded as 100, and thereafter as 12 Hawdon Street until 1963, after his daughter Jane//Jean WELSH, passed in 1962. Classified adds indicate a complete reversal of Hawdon street numbering from December 1909.

On to days maps of ratable Sydenham properties, 12 Hawdon Street is north of it’s intersection with Maldon, formerly Matson Street, Sydenham. Yet I find it hard to reconcile a small cottage, within a 1961 Retrolenz aerial photo.

In 1963 the cottage was listed as a very presentable small cottage of 2 living rooms, 2 bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchenette. As was common with the original workers homes in that area, toilet, washhouse, and storage sheds, were separate buildings in the back yard.

Wm WELSH had a blacksmith business at Pleasant Point, near Timaru,  trading as WELSH & SMITH c. 1880 – 1899, before moving to Sydenham. His wife Rhoda WELSH was a respected hardworking mother of 10 children, seven of whom attained adulthood.

At Hawdon Street, she regularly advertised her services as a domestic cleaner, and or washer woman, and upon the death of her husband William, although caring for an invalid daughter, also advertised offering a bedroom for one or more boarders.

Alan.

Correction. Dates changed from 1961 & 1962 to 1962 & 1963. Late night typos.