Intentions to Marry, 1918 Rangiora to Chatham Islands (includes Otago)

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840480, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1918 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.

1918f contains pages 2189-2777, covering districts from Rangiora to Chatham Islands (includes Otago)

Page 2329

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1918 Registrar H. 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

27 February 1918

Anders Andersen Aaskov
Rosa Muller

Anders Andersen Aaskov
Rosa Muller
💍 1918/391

Widower, 17 April 1915
Widow, 19 July 1916

Farmer

65
56

Dunedin
St. Kilda

5 years
15 years

House of Rev. J. Miller, 4 Coughtrey Street St. Kilda.

772

27 February 1918

J. Miller, Presbyterian

No	51
Date of Notice	27 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Anders Andersen Aaskov	Rosa Muller
	💍 1918/391
Condition	Widower, 17 April 1915	Widow, 19 July 1916
Profession	Farmer
Age	65	56
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	St. Kilda
Length of Residence	5 years	15 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. J. Miller, 4 Coughtrey Street St. Kilda.
Folio	772
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1918
Officiating Minister	J. Miller, Presbyterian

28 February 1918

William Thomas Bennett
Ruahine Alice Templeton

William Thomas Bennett
Ruahine Alice Templeton
💍 1918/392

Bachelor
Spinster

Marine engineer

30
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 years
23 years

Office of Registrar Dunedin.

773

28 February 1918

H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

No	52
Date of Notice	28 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Thomas Bennett	Ruahine Alice Templeton
	💍 1918/392
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Marine engineer
Age	30	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 years	23 years
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar Dunedin.
Folio	773
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 February 1918
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

1 March 1918

Thomas Clark Archibald
Ellen Priscilla Barnes

Thomas Clark Archibald
Ellen Priscilla Barnes
💍 1918/393

Bachelor
Spinster

Constable

34
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 years
2 years

First Church Manse Dunedin.

774

1 March 1918

G.H. Balfour, Presbyterian

No	53
Date of Notice	1 March 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Clark Archibald	Ellen Priscilla Barnes
	💍 1918/393
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Constable
Age	34	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 years	2 years
Marriage Place	First Church Manse Dunedin.
Folio	774
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1918
Officiating Minister	G.H. Balfour, Presbyterian

4 March 1918

Allan George Roxburgh
Margaret Woollatt

Allan George Roxburgh
Margaret Woollatt
💍 1918/394

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

28
39

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
3 years

Knox Church Dunedin.

775

4 March 1918

R.E. Davies, Presbyterian

No	54
Date of Notice	4 March 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Allan George Roxburgh	Margaret Woollatt
	💍 1918/394
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	28	39
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	3 years
Marriage Place	Knox Church Dunedin.
Folio	775
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 March 1918
Officiating Minister	R.E. Davies, Presbyterian

4 March 1918

Frederick William Banks
Jessie Allan Monteith Anna Innes

Frederick William Banks
Jessie Allan Monteith Anna Innes
💍 1918/402

Bachelor
Spinster

Marine officer

35
35

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
1 week

Knox Church Dunedin.

776

4 March 1918

R.E. Davies, Presbyterian

No	55
Date of Notice	4 March 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick William Banks	Jessie Allan Monteith Anna Innes
	💍 1918/402
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Marine officer
Age	35	35
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	1 week
Marriage Place	Knox Church Dunedin.
Folio	776
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 March 1918
Officiating Minister	R.E. Davies, Presbyterian

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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).