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 2795

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

14 February 1919

Edward Hall Travis
Margaret Sullivan

Edward Hall Travis
Margaret Sullivan
💍 1919/797

Bachelor
Spinster

Printer

66
59

Dunedin
Dunedin

1 week
1 week

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

648

14 February 1919

H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

No	51
Date of Notice	14 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Hall Travis	Margaret Sullivan
	💍 1919/797
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Printer
Age	66	59
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	1 week	1 week
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	648
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1919
Officiating Minister	H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

14 February 1919

Alexander Buckley Pearson
Isabella Gilbert Ranger

Alexander Buckley Pearson
Isabella Gilbert Ranger
💍 1919/798

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

21
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 years
20 years

House of W. T. Ranger, 12 Hyde Street, Dunedin

649

14 February 1919

R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	52
Date of Notice	14 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Buckley Pearson	Isabella Gilbert Ranger
	💍 1919/798
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 years	20 years
Marriage Place	House of W. T. Ranger, 12 Hyde Street, Dunedin
Folio	649
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1919
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

14 February 1919

Alexander Sharp
Caroline Clydesdale Burton

Alexander Sharp
Caroline Clydesdale Burton
💍 1919/799

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

35
33

Dunedin
Dunedin

10 years
33 years

House of S. Burton, 26 Frederick Street, Dunedin

650

14 February 1919

R. E. Davies, Presbyterian

No	53
Date of Notice	14 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Sharp	Caroline Clydesdale Burton
	💍 1919/799
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	35	33
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	10 years	33 years
Marriage Place	House of S. Burton, 26 Frederick Street, Dunedin
Folio	650
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1919
Officiating Minister	R. E. Davies, Presbyterian

14 February 1919

Henry Charles Marshall
Mary Ellen Hill

Henry Charles Marshall
Mary Ellen Hill
💍 1919/807

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer's assistant

22
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

20 years
23 years

St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin

651

14 February 1919

R. Graham, Roman Catholic

No	54
Date of Notice	14 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Charles Marshall	Mary Ellen Hill
	💍 1919/807
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer's assistant
Age	22	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	20 years	23 years
Marriage Place	St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin
Folio	651
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1919
Officiating Minister	R. Graham, Roman Catholic

17 February 1919

William Harry Williams
Dora Lewin Cassidy

William Harry Williams
Dora Lewin Cassidy
💍 1919/818

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

29
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

9 years
2 years

St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin

652

14 February 1919

C. E. Ardagh, Roman Catholic

No	55
Date of Notice	17 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Harry Williams	Dora Lewin Cassidy
	💍 1919/818
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	9 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin
Folio	652
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1919
Officiating Minister	C. E. Ardagh, Roman Catholic

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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).