Intentions to Marry, 1916 Rangiora to Chatham Islands

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840468, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1916 is bound in six volumes (a to f) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1916f contains pages 2397-3014, covering districts from Rangiora to Chatham Islands

Page 2533

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1916 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

4 January 1916

George Macandrew Frost.
Maria Lilian Canter

George Macandrew Frost
Maria Lilian Canter
💍 1916/5183

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Railway Employee.
Dressmaker.

33
28

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

4 days
28 years

Congregational Church, Leith Street, Dunedin.

2046

4 January 1916

A. H. Wallace.

No	1
Date of Notice	4 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Macandrew Frost.	Maria Lilian Canter
BDM Match (98%)	George Macandrew Frost	Maria Lilian Canter
	💍 1916/5183
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Railway Employee.	Dressmaker.
Age	33	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	4 days	28 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Leith Street, Dunedin.
Folio	2046
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1916
Officiating Minister	A. H. Wallace.

4 January 1916

Joseph Houston.
Fanny Elizabeth Anderson Riddell.

Joseph Houston
Fanny Elizabeth Anderson Riddell
💍 1916/5184

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Storekeeper.

25
27

St. Kilda.
St. Kilda.

4 days
25 years

Presbyterian Church, Sth. Dunedin.

2047

4 January 1916

R. Fairmaid.

No	2
Date of Notice	4 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Houston.	Fanny Elizabeth Anderson Riddell.
BDM Match (95%)	Joseph Houston	Fanny Elizabeth Anderson Riddell
	💍 1916/5184
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Storekeeper.
Age	25	27
Dwelling Place	St. Kilda.	St. Kilda.
Length of Residence	4 days	25 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Sth. Dunedin.
Folio	2047
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1916
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid.

4 January 1916

Carrington Stanley Matthews.
Ivy Gloria Lilian Horne.

Carrington Stanley Matthews
Ivy Gloria Lilian Horne
💍 1916/5185

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Electrician.

23
21

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

23 years
6 years

House of Rev. A. C. Randerson, 35 Manor Place, D'dn.

2048

4 January 1916

A. C. Randerson.

No	3
Date of Notice	4 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Carrington Stanley Matthews.	Ivy Gloria Lilian Horne.
BDM Match (96%)	Carrington Stanley Matthews	Ivy Gloria Lilian Horne
	💍 1916/5185
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Electrician.
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	23 years	6 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. A. C. Randerson, 35 Manor Place, D'dn.
Folio	2048
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1916
Officiating Minister	A. C. Randerson.

4 January 1916

George Cyril Glenn.
Elsie Constance Dick.

George Cyril Glenn
Elsie Constance Dick
💍 1916/5186

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Farmer.

32
27

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

3 days.
27 years

House of E. Dick, Lundie St,, Roslyn.

2049

4 January 1916

M. G. Dixon

No	4
Date of Notice	4 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Cyril Glenn.	Elsie Constance Dick.
BDM Match (95%)	George Cyril Glenn	Elsie Constance Dick
	💍 1916/5186
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Farmer.
Age	32	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	3 days.	27 years
Marriage Place	House of E. Dick, Lundie St,, Roslyn.
Folio	2049
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1916
Officiating Minister	M. G. Dixon

5 January 1916

John Alexander Colquhoun.
Emma Lurline Scully

John Alexander Colquhoun
Emma Lurline Scully
💍 1916/4725

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Schoolteacher

30
26

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

21 days.
11 years

St. John's Church, Roslyn.

2050

5 January 1916

W. A. R. Fitchett.

No	5
Date of Notice	5 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Alexander Colquhoun.	Emma Lurline Scully
BDM Match (98%)	John Alexander Colquhoun	Emma Lurline Scully
	💍 1916/4725
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Schoolteacher
Age	30	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	21 days.	11 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Church, Roslyn.
Folio	2050
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1916
Officiating Minister	W. A. R. Fitchett.

5 January 1916

Harold Wilberforce Belfield.
Teresa Harriet Gorham.

Harold Wilberforce Belfield
Teresa Harriet Gorham
💍 1916/444

Bachelor
Spinster.

Slaughterman.

24
21

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

6 mos.
15 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin.

1035

5 January 1916

H. Maxwell, Registrar.

No	6
Date of Notice	5 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Wilberforce Belfield.	Teresa Harriet Gorham.
BDM Match (96%)	Harold Wilberforce Belfield	Teresa Harriet Gorham
	💍 1916/444
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster.
Profession	Slaughterman.
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	6 mos.	15 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin.
Folio	1035
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1916
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell, Registrar.

6 January 1916

William Campbell Menzies.
Florence Harriet Jefferys.

William Campbell Menzies
Florence Harriet Jefferys
💍 1916/4736

Bachelor.
Spinster.

Purser.

28
27

Dunedin.
Dunedin.

3 days
5 days.

St. Matthews Church, Dunedin.

2051

5 January 1916

W. Curzon-Siggers.

No	7
Date of Notice	6 January 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Campbell Menzies.	Florence Harriet Jefferys.
BDM Match (96%)	William Campbell Menzies	Florence Harriet Jefferys
	💍 1916/4736
Condition	Bachelor.	Spinster.
Profession	Purser.
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin.	Dunedin.
Length of Residence	3 days	5 days.
Marriage Place	St. Matthews Church, Dunedin.
Folio	2051
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1916
Officiating Minister	W. Curzon-Siggers.

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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).