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 2791

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1919 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

24 January 1919

Thomas Anderson
Ethel Veronica Rein

Thomas Anderson
Ethel Veronica Rein
💍 1919/802

Bachelor
Spinster

Insurance Agent

28
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 years
3 years

Presbyterian Church, Marion Street, Caversham

630

24 January 1919

D. Dutton, Presbyterian

No	31
Date of Notice	24 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Anderson	Ethel Veronica Rein
	💍 1919/802
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Insurance Agent
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Marion Street, Caversham
Folio	630
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1919
Officiating Minister	D. Dutton, Presbyterian

25 January 1919

James Francis Kean
Marjory Ada Neave

James Francis Kean
Marjory Ada Neave
💍 1919/803

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Clerk

29
22

Winton
Dunedin

27 years
3 days

St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin

631

25 January 1919

B. Kaveney, Roman Catholic

No	32
Date of Notice	25 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Francis Kean	Marjory Ada Neave
	💍 1919/803
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Clerk
Age	29	22
Dwelling Place	Winton	Dunedin
Length of Residence	27 years	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin
Folio	631
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 January 1919
Officiating Minister	B. Kaveney, Roman Catholic

25 January 1919

David Henry Proffit
Maggie McCrone

David Henry Proffit
Maggie McCrone
💍 1919/5002

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Tailoress

34
28

St. Kilda
St. Kilda

3 days
27 years

Methodist Church, Queens Drive, St. Kilda

632

25 January 1919

J.R. Nelson, Methodist

No	33
Date of Notice	25 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Henry Proffit	Maggie McCrone
	💍 1919/5002
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Tailoress
Age	34	28
Dwelling Place	St. Kilda	St. Kilda
Length of Residence	3 days	27 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Queens Drive, St. Kilda
Folio	632
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 January 1919
Officiating Minister	J.R. Nelson, Methodist

27 January 1919

Frederick Wooldridge Revell
Evelyn Taylor

Frederick Wooldridge Revell
Evelyn Taylor
💍 1919/1221

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

23
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 years
22 years

House of R. Henderson, 6 Chambers Street, North East Valley

1724

27 January 1919

N.A. Friberg, Church of England

No	34
Date of Notice	27 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Wooldridge Revell	Evelyn Taylor
	💍 1919/1221
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 years	22 years
Marriage Place	House of R. Henderson, 6 Chambers Street, North East Valley
Folio	1724
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1919
Officiating Minister	N.A. Friberg, Church of England

28 January 1919

William McGee
Blanche Louisa Dore

William McGee
Blanche Louisa Dore
💍 1919/804

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

32
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

20 years
10 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

633

28 January 1919

H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

No	35
Date of Notice	28 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William McGee	Blanche Louisa Dore
	💍 1919/804
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	32	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	20 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	633
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 January 1919
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).