Inverness Av.,Mount Roskill, Auckland

[chempat]

Thanks for the extra information.

Wonder when/if he divorced his first wife.

I keep on trying to enter that address, but googlemaps/uk refuses to recognise it and keeps sending me to Inverness Avenue, Hamilton East.  Do you have a postcode/zipcode or similar?

OK - just saw update - how can Inverness Avenue be renamed in 1939 to Invermay Avenue if it shows as Inverness Avenue on ER's in 1960's?

[chempat]

Sorry, I am going to bed now, did not plan on putting a NZ request on here, and had not worked out the best time to do it.

I could put a link to where he was living on googlemaps in 1939, with English wife of 4 years, but it is up a farm track on Wiltshire/Hampshire border and no street view.  2 children born 1936 and 1939.

[Lucy2]

OK - just saw update - how can Inverness Avenue be renamed in 1939 to Invermay Avenue if it shows as Inverness Avenue on ER's in 1960's?

Good info kiwi-terrier     
This is not to dispute your finding ... but there is the following odditity. 

I just re-checked (NZ) electoral rolls using street name "Inverness Ave + Roskill"  (without entering a surname).

Result was 7 pages of persons living at "Inverness Ave"  -  Roskill electoral roll between the years of 1941 and 1966.   
[So the use of that street name seems to disappear after 1966 ... and in 1975 an "Inverness Ave" appears in Hamilton East (Waikato District) ]

 

   ~   Lu

added:   Just another odd aspect (trivia really),  ... Edwin's last wife* (the one after Florence E.), was listed as still living at 26 Inverness Ave in 1969 / 1972 / 1978 in which years it's now known as Eden electorate.      [* Haven't included her name here as can't find her death. ]

[Lucy2]

I keep on trying to enter that address, but googlemaps/uk refuses to recognise it and keeps sending me to Inverness Avenue, Hamilton East.  Do you have a postcode/zipcode or similar?

You will need to use >  New Zealand in the title of a Google street view search.

The current Mount Roskill postcode is  >  1041  :
[  Ignore "Inverness Avenue, Hamilton East"  it's in an adjoining province.  ]

According to the information first posted by "kiwi jeanie"  ... and the later information given by "kiwi-terrier" from the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection, the Mt Roskill street name "Inverness Avenue changed in June 1939 to "Invermay Avenue".   
And despite the fact that the electoral rolls up to 1966 show persons (in Roskill electorate) still using the "Inverness" name, you should be guided by the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection data.

So your Google street view search now needs to be ...
 "New Zealand > Auckland > 26 Invermay Avenue"

   ~  Lu

[Whenu]

There's also an Inverness Rd in Brown's Bay, just to confuse things.

[Lucy2]

That's true, Whenu   ... so much confusion, I was trying hard to avoid mentioning it.   

   ~   Lu

[Lucy2]

for chempat

This link may "time-out"  ...  if so, search "Incoming Passenger Cards" using his name.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=12017593&S=45

Edwin John BIDDLECOMBE arrived in Sydney*, Australia on 24 May 1965.    He had embarked on a flight from Auckland (NZ) and was in transit  ... and stated he had "last stayed in N Z".    He ticked the box denoting he was "widowed".     
[ *  This passenger card is in two parts - on the reverse it says "flight - first port of call  "S" - which I take to mean as "Sydney". ]

Edit :  [Have just amended my original post, as it appears this travel (probably to UK - will check for that), was following the death of his wife Florence in NZ.

     ~  Lu

[kiwi jeanie]

Just as an interesting sidebar my friend lived next door at number 24 approx 15 years ago. It is a part of Auckland that was badly affected by the floods of two weeks ago 

[kiwi jeanie]

I can take a photo of the house for you if you pm me your email address