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 2817

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 30 June 1919 Registrar 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

153

12 April 1919

William Gregg
Harriet Annie Kemnitz

William Gregg
Harriet Annie Kemnitz
💍 1919/2820

Widower 6 May 1915
Widow 30 August 1916

Leather merchant

63
49

Dunedin
Dunedin

18 years
35 years

House of Mrs. Kemnitz, 77 Canongate, Dunedin

2678

12 April 1919

S. G. Griffith, Church of Christ

No	153
Date of Notice	12 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Gregg	Harriet Annie Kemnitz
	💍 1919/2820
Condition	Widower 6 May 1915	Widow 30 August 1916
Profession	Leather merchant
Age	63	49
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	18 years	35 years
Marriage Place	House of Mrs. Kemnitz, 77 Canongate, Dunedin
Folio	2678
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 April 1919
Officiating Minister	S. G. Griffith, Church of Christ

154

12 April 1919

Horace Cecil Edgar Payton
Hilda Ellen Evans

Horace Cecil Edgar Payton
Hilda Ellen Evans
💍 1919/2821

Bachelor
Spinster

Tinsmith

26
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

26 years
22 years

Church of Christ, King Street, Dunedin

2679

12 April 1919

S. G. Griffith, Church of Christ

No	154
Date of Notice	12 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Horace Cecil Edgar Payton	Hilda Ellen Evans
	💍 1919/2821
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tinsmith
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	26 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Church of Christ, King Street, Dunedin
Folio	2679
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 April 1919
Officiating Minister	S. G. Griffith, Church of Christ

155

12 April 1919

Christopher Francis Guinan
Mabel Rayburn Lewis

Christopher Francis Guinan
Mabel Rayburn Lewis
💍 1919/2822

Bachelor
Spinster

Mechanic

27
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 years
23 years

House of Mrs. Given, 333 Castle Street, Dunedin

2680

12 April 1919

G. H. Jupp, Presbyterian

No	155
Date of Notice	12 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Christopher Francis Guinan	Mabel Rayburn Lewis
	💍 1919/2822
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mechanic
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 years	23 years
Marriage Place	House of Mrs. Given, 333 Castle Street, Dunedin
Folio	2680
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 April 1919
Officiating Minister	G. H. Jupp, Presbyterian

156

12 April 1919

George William Duncan Gough
Alice Verona Caddie

George William Duncan Gough
Alice Verona Caddie
💍 1919/2823

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor expert

24
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

24 years
22 years

Presbyterian Church, Queens Drive, St. Kilda

2681

12 April 1919

S. Allan, Presbyterian

No	156
Date of Notice	12 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George William Duncan Gough	Alice Verona Caddie
	💍 1919/2823
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor expert
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	24 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Queens Drive, St. Kilda
Folio	2681
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 April 1919
Officiating Minister	S. Allan, Presbyterian

157

12 April 1919

Andrew Edwin Arthur Miller
Anne Josephine Daly

Andrew Edwin Arthur Miller
Anne Josephine Daly
💍 1919/2824

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper

32
37

Dunedin
Dunedin

32 years
1 month

St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin

2682

12 April 1919

J. P. Delany, Roman Catholic

No	157
Date of Notice	12 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Andrew Edwin Arthur Miller	Anne Josephine Daly
	💍 1919/2824
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper
Age	32	37
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	32 years	1 month
Marriage Place	St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin
Folio	2682
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 April 1919
Officiating Minister	J. P. Delany, 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).