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 2374

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 30 September 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

267

24 July 1918

William Henry Ure
Ida Ann Paterson

William Henry Ure
Ida Ann Paterson
💍 1918/3852

Widower
Spinster

Contractor

64
46

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 weeks
3 days

Registrar's Office Dunedin.

3291

24 July 1918

H. Maxwell Acting Registrar.

No	267
Date of Notice	24 July 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Henry Ure	Ida Ann Paterson
	💍 1918/3852
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Contractor
Age	64	46
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 weeks	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Dunedin.
Folio	3291
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1918
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell Acting Registrar.

268

25 July 1918

James Henry List
Harriet Robinson

James Henry List
Harriet Robinson
💍 1918/4464

Bachelor
Spinster

Ironmoulder

26
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

26 years
25 years

Methodist Church, Regent Street Mornington.

4022

25 July 1918

W. Greenslade Methodist.

No	268
Date of Notice	25 July 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Henry List	Harriet Robinson
	💍 1918/4464
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ironmoulder
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	26 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Regent Street Mornington.
Folio	4022
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1918
Officiating Minister	W. Greenslade Methodist.

269

29 July 1918

Cecil Gordon Titchener
Freda Muriel Hellyer

Cecil Gordon Titchener
Freda Muriel Hellyer
💍 1918/3853

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor mechanic

30
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

30 years
11 years

Holy Cross Church, St. Kilda

3292

29 July 1918

A. Wingfield Church of England.

No	269
Date of Notice	29 July 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Gordon Titchener	Freda Muriel Hellyer
	💍 1918/3853
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor mechanic
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	30 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Holy Cross Church, St. Kilda
Folio	3292
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1918
Officiating Minister	A. Wingfield Church of England.

270

29 July 1918

Russell John Stevenson
Dora Evelyn Carew

Russell John Stevenson
Dora Evelyn Carew
💍 1918/3855

Bachelor
Spinster

Solicitor

34
33

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
33 years

All Saints Church, Dunedin.

3293

29 July 1918

A.R. Fitchett Church of England.

No	270
Date of Notice	29 July 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Russell John Stevenson	Dora Evelyn Carew
	💍 1918/3855
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Solicitor
Age	34	33
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	33 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Dunedin.
Folio	3293
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1918
Officiating Minister	A.R. Fitchett Church of England.

271

30 July 1918

Matu Cvitanovich
Maud Edith Stone

Matu Cvitanovich
Maud Edith Stone
💍 1918/3856

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

29
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 months
4 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin.

3294

30 July 1918

H. Maxwell Acting Registrar.

No	271
Date of Notice	30 July 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Matu Cvitanovich	Maud Edith Stone
	💍 1918/3856
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	29	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 months	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin.
Folio	3294
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1918
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell Acting Registrar.

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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).