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 2799

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

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

27 February 1919

George Stanley Butler Wilmott
Jane Ann Haliday McEwan

George Stanley Butler Wilmoth
Jane Ann Haliday McEwan
💍 1919/816

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

21
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

6 weeks
3 days

First Church Manse, Dunedin

668

27 February 1919

G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

No	71
Date of Notice	27 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Stanley Butler Wilmott	Jane Ann Haliday McEwan
BDM Match (98%)	George Stanley Butler Wilmoth	Jane Ann Haliday McEwan
	💍 1919/816
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	6 weeks	3 days
Marriage Place	First Church Manse, Dunedin
Folio	668
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1919
Officiating Minister	G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

27 February 1919

James William Morgan
Marion Robb Strathern

James William Morgan
Marion Robb Strathern
💍 1919/817

Bachelor
Divorced

Railway employee

22
24

Dunedin
Dunedin

24 years
12 years

Office of F. G. Cumming, 250 King Street, Dunedin

689

27 February 1919

F. G. Cumming, Presbyterian

No	72
Date of Notice	27 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James William Morgan	Marion Robb Strathern
	💍 1919/817
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Railway employee
Age	22	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	24 years	12 years
Marriage Place	Office of F. G. Cumming, 250 King Street, Dunedin
Folio	689
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1919
Officiating Minister	F. G. Cumming, Presbyterian

28 February 1919

Robert Jury
Margaret Gray Grainger

Robert Jury
Margaret Gray Grainger
💍 1919/819

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

30
27

Highcliff
Broad Bay

27 years
27 years

House of J. Grainger, Broad Bay

670

28 February 1919

J. R. Nelson, Presbyterian

No	73
Date of Notice	28 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Jury	Margaret Gray Grainger
	💍 1919/819
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Highcliff	Broad Bay
Length of Residence	27 years	27 years
Marriage Place	House of J. Grainger, Broad Bay
Folio	670
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 February 1919
Officiating Minister	J. R. Nelson, Presbyterian

28 February 1919

Bertram Andrew Mutimer
Catherine Stewart

Bertram Andrew Mutimer
Catherine Stewart
💍 1919/820

Bachelor
Spinster

Slaughterman

26
28

Dunedin
Dunedin

25 years
28 years

St. Matthews Church, Dunedin

671

28 February 1919

W. Curzon-Siggers, Church of England

No	74
Date of Notice	28 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bertram Andrew Mutimer	Catherine Stewart
	💍 1919/820
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Slaughterman
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	25 years	28 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthews Church, Dunedin
Folio	671
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 February 1919
Officiating Minister	W. Curzon-Siggers, Church of England

1 March 1919

William Campbell Adams
Edith Ramsay

William Campbell Adams
Edith Ramsay
💍 1919/821

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway employee

22
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 years
3 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

672

1 March 1919

H. Maxwell, Acting Registrar

No	75
Date of Notice	1 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Campbell Adams	Edith Ramsay
	💍 1919/821
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway employee
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	672
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 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).