Rochedale South was officially gazetted in July 1979 and lies to the south of Priestdale Road. The suburb of Rochedale is in Brisbane City. Rochedale was the name of the homestead built by the Roche family who settled in the area in 1868. Their property stretched from the current Rochedale School, north to Ford Road and east to Priest Gully. They also owned the site of Redeemer College. The family grew grapes and had a citrus orchard. After WW1 the area was turned over to small crop farming and in the mid-1930's they moved into dairying.
Much of the land in Rochedale South was originally owned by Robert Grieve and William Underwood and during the mid-1970's it was suggested that the area be renamed Langford, after Colonel Langford who owned some of William Underwood's property from the 1930's. Colonel Sam Langford retired to his home on the Springwood estate after WW2 and subdivided his land into 40 & 60 acre lots. He lived on Sunningdale Avenue and continued to grow pineapples. Local residents rejected the proposed name change in the late 1970's but in the early 1990's the prospect of a name change was again on the agenda following Brisbane City Council's proposal to build a massive waste dump in Gardiner Road, Rochedale. Some locals suggested the name change to avoid the connotations associated with living near a major dump.
