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 2913

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar A. 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

624

28 November 1919

Noel Macdonald
Margaret Warren Hill

Coll MacDonald
Margaret Warren Hill
💍 1919/7983

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

26
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 months
8 months

Knox Church Vestry Dunedin

7634

28 November 1919

Rev. R. E. Davies (Presbyterian)

No	624
Date of Notice	28 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Noel Macdonald	Margaret Warren Hill
BDM Match (89%)	Coll MacDonald	Margaret Warren Hill
	💍 1919/7983
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 months	8 months
Marriage Place	Knox Church Vestry Dunedin
Folio	7634
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. E. Davies (Presbyterian)

625

28 November 1919

Henry Noble Wilson
Eileen Margaret Wilson

Henry Noble Wilson
Eileen Margaret Wilson
💍 1919/7984

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

30
19

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 years
6 years

Residence of Mrs. C. Johnston Elliot Row Dunedin

7635

James Wilson Father

28 November 1919

Rev. R. Scott Allan (Presbyterian)

No	625
Date of Notice	28 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Noble Wilson	Eileen Margaret Wilson
	💍 1919/7984
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	30	19
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs. C. Johnston Elliot Row Dunedin
Folio	7635
Consent	James Wilson Father
Date of Certificate	28 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Scott Allan (Presbyterian)

626

29 November 1919

Peter Young Bell
Elizabeth Canning Barnett

Peter Young Bell
Elizabeth Canning Barnett
💍 1919/7985

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Mechanic

33
33

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 weeks
14 years

First Church Dunedin

7636

29 November 1919

Rev. G. H. Balfour (Presbyterian)

No	626
Date of Notice	29 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Peter Young Bell	Elizabeth Canning Barnett
	💍 1919/7985
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Mechanic
Age	33	33
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 weeks	14 years
Marriage Place	First Church Dunedin
Folio	7636
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. H. Balfour (Presbyterian)

627

29 November 1919

Philip Lacey Pullyn
Annie Rae Hutcheson

Philip Lacey Pullyn
Annie Rae Hutcheson
💍 1919/7986

Bachelor
Spinster

Traveller

30
27

Dunedin
Roslyn

4 years
27 years

Methodist Church Roslyn

7637

29 November 1919

Rev. F. J. Parker (Methodist)

No	627
Date of Notice	29 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip Lacey Pullyn	Annie Rae Hutcheson
	💍 1919/7986
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Traveller
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Roslyn
Length of Residence	4 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church Roslyn
Folio	7637
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. J. Parker (Methodist)

628

29 November 1919

Edward Patrick Brogan
Aimie Costello

Edward Patrick Brogan
Annie Costello
💍 1919/9472

Bachelor
Spinster

Apiary Inspector

27
25

Dunedin
Timaru

12 months
25 years

Roman Catholic Church Timaru

9237

see Timaru

29 November 1919

Rev. F. Bartley (Roman Catholic)

No	628
Date of Notice	29 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Patrick Brogan	Aimie Costello
BDM Match (93%)	Edward Patrick Brogan	Annie Costello
	💍 1919/9472
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Apiary Inspector
Age	27	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Timaru
Length of Residence	12 months	25 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Timaru
Folio	9237
Consent	see Timaru
Date of Certificate	29 November 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. Bartley (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).