Intentions to Marry, 1919 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840486, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1919 is bound in seven volumes (a to g) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1919f contains pages 2521-2942, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 2617

District of Oxford Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar C. E. Jones

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

2 October 1919

Horace Percival Thompson
Jessie Muriel Gainsford

Horace Percival Thompson
Jessie Muriel Gainsford
💍 1919/9466

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

25
26

Bennett
Oxford

25 years
18 years

Church of England Oxford

9182

2 October 1919

Rev L Hard Anglican

No	7
Date of Notice	2 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Horace Percival Thompson	Jessie Muriel Gainsford
	💍 1919/9466
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Bennett	Oxford
Length of Residence	25 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Oxford
Folio	9182
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev L Hard Anglican

1 November 1919

Augustus Harold Clausen
Grace Eileen Frampton

Augustus Harold Clausen
Grace Eileen Frampton
💍 1919/9467

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Servant

21
18

Oxford
Oxford

3 days
18 years

Residence of H. A. Frampton Cooper's Creek

9183

Albert Arthur Frampton

1 November 1919

Rev F P Foot Methodist

No	8
Date of Notice	1 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Augustus Harold Clausen	Grace Eileen Frampton
	💍 1919/9467
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Servant
Age	21	18
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	3 days	18 years
Marriage Place	Residence of H. A. Frampton Cooper's Creek
Folio	9183
Consent	Albert Arthur Frampton
Date of Certificate	1 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev F P Foot Methodist

15 November 1919

William Alexander Dew
Mary Agnes Garlick

William Alexander Dew
Mary Agnes Garlick
💍 1919/9444

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith
Cook

28
33

Oxford
Oxford

3 days
25 years

Roman Catholic Church Oxford

9184

15 November 1919

Rev Dean Hyland Catholic

No	9
Date of Notice	15 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Alexander Dew	Mary Agnes Garlick
	💍 1919/9444
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith	Cook
Age	28	33
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	3 days	25 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Oxford
Folio	9184
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Dean Hyland Catholic

17 December 1919

Robert Hendry
Irene Hilda Victoria Nelson

Robert Hendry
Irene Hilda Victoria Nelson
💍 1919/9445

Bachelor
Spinster

Fireman
Domestic Duties

21
21

Oxford
Oxford

3 days
2 months

Church of England Oxford

9185

17 November 1919

Rev L Hard Anglican

No	10
Date of Notice	17 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Hendry	Irene Hilda Victoria Nelson
	💍 1919/9445
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fireman	Domestic Duties
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	3 days	2 months
Marriage Place	Church of England Oxford
Folio	9185
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev L Hard Anglican

17 December 1919

Joseph Tait
Grace Lena Jones

Joseph Tait
Grace Lena Jones
💍 1919/9446

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith
Domestic Duties

31
18

Oxford
Oxford

19 years
18 years

Residence of Alfred Jones Oxford

9186

Alfred Jones Father

17 November 1919

Rev G G Howes Presbyterian

No	11
Date of Notice	17 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Tait	Grace Lena Jones
	💍 1919/9446
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith	Domestic Duties
Age	31	18
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	19 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Alfred Jones Oxford
Folio	9186
Consent	Alfred Jones Father
Date of Certificate	17 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev G G Howes 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).