Getting confused over Liverpool Road/Street, Auckland - Can you help?

[Girl Guide]

Minnie, if you look at my very first post you will see that I have looked at the electoral rolls.  Frustratingly for me they don't give the number that the person lived at, only the name of the road.

What about old telephone directories?  Are there any of those available that cover the 1930s that I could look at on the internet?  That's assuming that Walter had a telephone!

[kiwihalfpint]

I would suggest you contact the Funeral Director, who were Battersby Funeral Services. They should have the full address at the time of death.  Janette, do you have a link for them?


Cheers
KHP

[Janette]

Hi KHP

here is the link

http://www.battersbyfuneralservices.co.nz/contact-us

They are not good at replying,if they don't answer within a week let me know and I will go in to their office as I know they have all the records,did he die at home or in hospital?

Cheers Janette

[kiwihalfpint]

They were also Eva Emma England's Funeral Directors, so may as well ask for her, in case Walter died elsewhere.


Cheers
KHP

[Girl Guide]

Hi Janette and Kiwi

Thank you for your information.   I'll try writing to the funeral directors and see what happens.  If I get no reply I'll let you know on here.

[Fresh Fields]

Confusing when the Council records show "street" instead of "road" 

Minniehaha.

Hello again.

Re the above quote, I say not really.

#1 Apologies for skip reading the post and not spotting Glen Eden, or I would have advised to cast your net wider than AUCKLAND CITY.

#2 When one is researching, it is important to put oneself in the time frame of the research.

While today Greater Auckland is a very large area, even in my memory places like Mt Eden were separately administered Boroughs, and that is why the Auckland City Libraries pages on former street names is so good. For emergency services, and administrative reasons, many Roads & Streets were renamed at the time of the amalgamation. [Early 1960's ?]

Until very recent times Glen Eden, would have been administered by first a County Council; a District Council; and then a neighbouring City, to AUCKLAND CITY.

Historically a road was the means of travel within the country, but as they got swallowed up by a Borough or City, most, but not all, become known as streets. Hence Great North Road, West Auckland etc.

- Alan.

[Janette]

It was Glen Eden borough council which with neighbouring councils became Waitakere City and then the huge amalgamation saw it become part of Auckland City Council

Cheers Janette

[kiwihalfpint]

Waitakere City

Cheers Janette

That was what the 1946/49 E/R's came under.


Cheers
KHP

[Girl Guide]

Hi all

I can see what Alan means.  Over the years a place develops, gets bigger and absorbs what would have been villages which had their own road names, which then get changed to reflect the bigger area.

The same thing has happened in Bristol where I live.  Originally a much smaller place, expanded and swallowed up the villages of Bedminster and Brislington and no doubt other places in the surrounding area.  Bristol is now a city and county in its own right.  In that time probably a large number of roads would have been renamed and the old names disappeared into the history books.

Have now written to the funeral people and await further developments.