Intentions to Marry, 1913 Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Chatham Islands

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840453, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1913 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki (1913a), Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1913b), and Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Chatham Islands (1913c).

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District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1913 Registrar Henry Maxwell

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

16 January 1913

Richard Samuel Thompson
Maud Stanley Park

Richard Samuel Thompson
Maud Stanley Park
💍 1913/2570

Bachelor
Spinster

civil engineer

27
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

10 years
6 years

In Knox Church Dunedin

13/2115

16 January 1913

R. E. Davies

No	25
Date of Notice	16 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Samuel Thompson	Maud Stanley Park
	💍 1913/2570
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	civil engineer
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	10 years	6 years
Marriage Place	In Knox Church Dunedin
Folio	13/2115
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 January 1913
Officiating Minister	R. E. Davies

16 January 1913

Thomas Hogan
Sarah Frances Casserley

Thomas Hogan
Sarah Frances Casserley
💍 1913/2158

Bachelor
Spinster

railway employee

38
30

Caversham
Dunedin

8 years
9 years

In St Joseph's Cathedral Dunedin

13/1647

16 January 1913

J. Coffey

No	26
Date of Notice	16 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Hogan	Sarah Frances Casserley
	💍 1913/2158
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	railway employee
Age	38	30
Dwelling Place	Caversham	Dunedin
Length of Residence	8 years	9 years
Marriage Place	In St Joseph's Cathedral Dunedin
Folio	13/1647
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 January 1913
Officiating Minister	J. Coffey

20 January 1913

George Alexander Richards
Clementina McIntosh

George Alexander Richards
Clementina McIntosh
💍 1913/2168

Bachelor
Spinster

cook

34
30

Dunedin
Dunedin

23 years
30 years

In the First Church Dunedin

13/1634

20 January 1913

G. H. Balfour

No	27
Date of Notice	20 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Alexander Richards	Clementina McIntosh
	💍 1913/2168
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	cook
Age	34	30
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	23 years	30 years
Marriage Place	In the First Church Dunedin
Folio	13/1634
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1913
Officiating Minister	G. H. Balfour

20 January 1913

Robert Gillon
Elsie Eliza Lewis

Robert Gillon
Elsie Eliza Lewis
💍 1913/2201

Bachelor
Spinster

railway employee
nurse

25
24

Dunedin
South Dunedin

3 years
24 years

In the Wesley Methodist Church Cargill Road South Dunedin

13/1691

20 January 1913

D. J. Murray

No	28
Date of Notice	20 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Gillon	Elsie Eliza Lewis
	💍 1913/2201
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	railway employee	nurse
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	South Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 years	24 years
Marriage Place	In the Wesley Methodist Church Cargill Road South Dunedin
Folio	13/1691
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1913
Officiating Minister	D. J. Murray

21 January 1913

Thomas Henry Ufton
Mary Kingsford

Thomas Henry Ufton
Mary Kingsford
💍 1913/2200

Widower
Divorced

engineer

55
49

Dunedin
Dunedin

37 years
12 years

In the house of the Rev. D. J. Murray Macandrew Road South Dunedin

13/1690

21 January 1913

D. J. Murray

No	29
Date of Notice	21 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Henry Ufton	Mary Kingsford
	💍 1913/2200
Condition	Widower	Divorced
Profession	engineer
Age	55	49
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	37 years	12 years
Marriage Place	In the house of the Rev. D. J. Murray Macandrew Road South Dunedin
Folio	13/1690
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1913
Officiating Minister	D. J. Murray

21 January 1913

William Leslie Tyrie
Annie Miller

William Leslie Tyrie
Annie Miller
💍 1913/2213

Bachelor
Spinster

plasterer

20
18

Anderson's Bay
South Dunedin

4 months
15 years

In the Presbyterian Church Queen's Drive St Kilda

13/1679

Alexander Tyrie, father; May Miller, mother

21 January 1913

R. S. Allan

No	30
Date of Notice	21 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Leslie Tyrie	Annie Miller
	💍 1913/2213
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	plasterer
Age	20	18
Dwelling Place	Anderson's Bay	South Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 months	15 years
Marriage Place	In the Presbyterian Church Queen's Drive St Kilda
Folio	13/1679
Consent	Alexander Tyrie, father; May Miller, mother
Date of Certificate	21 January 1913
Officiating Minister	R. S. Allan

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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).