Intentions to Marry, 1910 Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840444, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1910 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1910a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1910b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1910c).

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District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1910

Date of Notice

Names and Surnames of Parties

BDM Match

Condition

Calling or Profession

Age

Dwelling Place

Length of Residence

Marriage Place

Folio

Consent

Date of Certificate

Officiating Minister

5 January 1910

Sidney Tasso Burton
Mabel Moore

Sydney Tasso Burton
Mabel Moore
💍 1910/1262

Bachelor
Spinster

Surveyor
Clerk

30
28

Dunedin
Hokitika

25 years
2 years

In The Presbyterian Church, Hokitika

10/1267

5 January 1910

J. C. Jamieson

No	8
Date of Notice	5 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sidney Tasso Burton	Mabel Moore
BDM Match (97%)	Sydney Tasso Burton	Mabel Moore
	💍 1910/1262
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Surveyor	Clerk
Age	30	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Hokitika
Length of Residence	25 years	2 years
Marriage Place	In The Presbyterian Church, Hokitika
Folio	10/1267
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1910
Officiating Minister	J. C. Jamieson

5 January 1910

William Herbert
Alice May Barton

William Herbert
Alice May Barton
💍 1910/1614

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

24
23

Caversham
Dunedin

2 years
10 years

In The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Dunedin

10/1607

5 January 1910

H. Maxwell

No	9
Date of Notice	5 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Herbert	Alice May Barton
	💍 1910/1614
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Caversham	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 years	10 years
Marriage Place	In The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Dunedin
Folio	10/1607
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1910
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell

5 January 1910

Herbert Charles Bilton
Jessie Ann Margaret Ross

Herbert Charles Bilton
Jessie Ann Margaret Ross
💍 1910/1638

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Clerk

36
37

Dunedin
Dunedin

7 years
37 years

In The House of Mr. G. Moodie, 5 Heriot Row, Dunedin

10/1658

5 January 1910

R. E. Davies

No	10
Date of Notice	5 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Charles Bilton	Jessie Ann Margaret Ross
	💍 1910/1638
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Clerk
Age	36	37
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	7 years	37 years
Marriage Place	In The House of Mr. G. Moodie, 5 Heriot Row, Dunedin
Folio	10/1658
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1910
Officiating Minister	R. E. Davies

5 January 1910

Louis Ernst Wahrlich
Hannah Parsons

Louis Ernst Wahrlich
Hannah Parsons
💍 1910/2000

Bachelor
Spinster

Butler

29
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

25 years
21 years

In The House of Mr. W. J. Crawford, 69 Great King Street, Dunedin

10/1725

5 January 1910

W. Hay

No	11
Date of Notice	5 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Ernst Wahrlich	Hannah Parsons
	💍 1910/2000
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butler
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	25 years	21 years
Marriage Place	In The House of Mr. W. J. Crawford, 69 Great King Street, Dunedin
Folio	10/1725
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1910
Officiating Minister	W. Hay

6 January 1910

Arthur Joseph Cannon
Emily Cole

Atkin Joseph Cannon
Emily Cole
💍 1910/1693

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

31
28

St. Kilda
Caversham

4 years
28 years

In St. Matthews Church, Dunedin

10/1637

6 January 1910

W. Curzon-Siggers

No	12
Date of Notice	6 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Joseph Cannon	Emily Cole
BDM Match (90%)	Atkin Joseph Cannon	Emily Cole
	💍 1910/1693
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	31	28
Dwelling Place	St. Kilda	Caversham
Length of Residence	4 years	28 years
Marriage Place	In St. Matthews Church, Dunedin
Folio	10/1637
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1910
Officiating Minister	W. Curzon-Siggers

6 January 1910

George Walker McLay
Elsie May Smith

George Walker McLay
Elsie May Smith
💍 1910/1615

Widower
Spinster

Engineer

26
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

10 days
20 years

In The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Dunedin

10/1608

6 January 1910

H. Maxwell

No	13
Date of Notice	6 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Walker McLay	Elsie May Smith
	💍 1910/1615
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	10 days	20 years
Marriage Place	In The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Dunedin
Folio	10/1608
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1910
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell

7 January 1910

James Brown Roy
Jessie Logan

James Brown Roy
Jessie Logan
💍 1910/1670

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway employee

27
25

Dunedin
St. Kilda

3 days
2 years

In the house of the Rev. W. Grigg, 9 Macandrew Road, South Dunedin

10/1696

7 January 1910

W. Grigg

No	14
Date of Notice	7 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Brown Roy	Jessie Logan
	💍 1910/1670
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway employee
Age	27	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	St. Kilda
Length of Residence	3 days	2 years
Marriage Place	In the house of the Rev. W. Grigg, 9 Macandrew Road, South Dunedin
Folio	10/1696
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1910
Officiating Minister	W. Grigg

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What is an Intention to Marry?

The 1854 Marriage Act required Pakeha settlers (and later Maori) to register their intention to marry from 1855. The resulting Notices of intention to marry were sent by the district registrars to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages and bound into large volumes, each containing a year of notices. These registers were eventually deposited with Archives New Zealand.

What information does an ItM record?

A typical Intention to Marry notice records:

the bride and groom's full names
occupation of the groom (and sometimes the bride)
their ages
district where the marriage would take place
how long they had resided in the district
Where the marriage would take place (eg, a specific church)
Who would officiate the marriage (eg, a minister)
The date of the notice and also a date when the certificate was issued. Marriages had to take place within 3 months, and usually occurred within a week or so of the certificate date.
If one of the parties was under 21, a parent who consented to their marriage was usually specified

These details can provide clues for genealogical and historical research. Knowing the date and district makes it easier to look for wedding notices in Papers Past, and the amount of time that the parties had resided in a district can offer clues to whether a person was born in NZ, or when they immigrated.

However, finding individual records in the Intentions to Marry registers was typically a slow and manual process, usually requiring an in-person visit to Archives NZ's Wellington office (during limited opening hours) and using a handwritten card catalogue index to look up individual names.

Eight years of the registers had been digitised by Archives NZ prior to 2024, but even these digital versions required the use of a manual index and usually examining several pages to locate specific records.

What is the Intentions to Marry Project?

This project aims to transcribe the New Zealand Intentions to Marry registers (from 1855 to 1925) with the assistance of new technology (AI), making the records freely available and easily searchable.

The ITM records have also been cross-referenced with the registered marriages at DIA Births, Deaths and Marriages, where possible (a small fraction of the recorded intentions to marry did not become a registered marriage).

Currently we have almost all records between 1855 and 1908. More registers are being added almost every week.

The project is led by Luke Howison, a web developer who made the free genealogical research search tool NZ Ancestor Search Helper and Archway-style Collections Search. There are also some wonderful volunteers assisting with digitising the registers.

Can I volunteer to help?

Yes, you can! You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

I am also looking for Wellington-based volunteers to help me digitise more years of the registers. I can provide lighting equipment and a 'clicker' (to trigger your phone's camera).

How is the transcription done?

There are several steps to digitising and transcribing the records:

Digitising the registers (taking clean, straight, high-quality photos)
Processing the digitised pages by straightening, cropping and sharpening the images
Transcribing each page with a combination of AI tools
Matching each ITM with a registered marriage when possible
Human verification of the transcribed information

The main LLM (AI) used are the Google Gemini Pro and Flash models, which have excellent 'Vision' capabilities, and a generous free tier.

Archives NZ has released the register years they have digitised (1865-69, 1872, 1874 and 1880) under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

The Intention to Marry registers (up to 1925) are more than 100 years old, so their Crown Copyright has expired, putting them in the public domain. This also applies to any 'mechanical reproductions' (eg, pictures or photocopies) of their content without substantial alteration.

The transcribed records on this website are released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, while giving credit to the creator (NZ Intentions to Marry Project).