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 2793

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar W. Marshall

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

3 February 1919

William Ernest Hyder
Gladys Violet Stansfield

William Ernest Hyder
Gladys Violet Stansfield
💍 1919/786

Bachelor
Spinster

Shepherd

21
18

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 years
9 years

Church of Christ, North East Valley.

638

D. Stansfield (Father)

3 February 1919

T. Arnold, Church of Christ

No	41
Date of Notice	3 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Ernest Hyder	Gladys Violet Stansfield
	💍 1919/786
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shepherd
Age	21	18
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 years	9 years
Marriage Place	Church of Christ, North East Valley.
Folio	638
Consent	D. Stansfield (Father)
Date of Certificate	3 February 1919
Officiating Minister	T. Arnold, Church of Christ

5 February 1919

Percy James Wilkinson Kemshed
Winifred Jane Porter

Percy James Wilkinson Kemshed
Winifred Jane Porter
💍 1919/787

Bachelor
Spinster

Drapers assistant

22
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 years
3 years

House of Rev. S. Griffith, 47 Littlebourne Road, Dunedin.

639

5 February 1919

S. Griffith, Methodist

No	42
Date of Notice	5 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy James Wilkinson Kemshed	Winifred Jane Porter
	💍 1919/787
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Drapers assistant
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. S. Griffith, 47 Littlebourne Road, Dunedin.
Folio	639
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 February 1919
Officiating Minister	S. Griffith, Methodist

6 February 1919

Lauchlan Gualter Maclean
Lily Ivy Charlotte Paterson

Lauchlan Gualter Maclean
Lily Ivy Charlotte Paterson
💍 1919/788

Bachelor
Spinster

Electrical engineer

34
24

Dunedin
Dunedin

34 years
24 years

House of A. Paterson, 180 Queen Street, Dunedin

640

6 February 1919

G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

No	43
Date of Notice	6 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lauchlan Gualter Maclean	Lily Ivy Charlotte Paterson
	💍 1919/788
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Electrical engineer
Age	34	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	34 years	24 years
Marriage Place	House of A. Paterson, 180 Queen Street, Dunedin
Folio	640
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 February 1919
Officiating Minister	G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

6 February 1919

Charles William Vincent
Martha Adam

Charles William Vincent
Martha Adam
💍 1919/789

Bachelor
Spinster

Company secretary

27
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 years
25 years

Methodist Church, Regent Street, Mornington.

641

6 February 1919

W. Greenslade, Methodist

No	44
Date of Notice	6 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles William Vincent	Martha Adam
	💍 1919/789
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Company secretary
Age	27	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Regent Street, Mornington.
Folio	641
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 February 1919
Officiating Minister	W. Greenslade, Methodist

7 February 1919

John Arthur Timlin
Hilda Doris Morrison

John Arthur Timlin
Hilda Doris Morrison
💍 1919/790

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

31
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

31 years
21 years

Presbyterian Church, Mornington

642

7 February 1919

W. Trotter, Presbyterian

No	45
Date of Notice	7 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Arthur Timlin	Hilda Doris Morrison
	💍 1919/790
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	31	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	31 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Mornington
Folio	642
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 February 1919
Officiating Minister	W. Trotter, 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).