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 2936

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar A. H. Magindie

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

739

24 December 1919

John Forrest Kilpatrick
Iris Hazell Ramsay

John Forrest Kilpatrick
Iris Hazell Ramsay
💍 1919/8114

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

21
23

Green Island
Dunedin

16 years
23 years

House of A. Ramsay, 126 Kaikorai Road, Roslyn

7740

24 December 1919

Rev. J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

No	739
Date of Notice	24 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Forrest Kilpatrick	Iris Hazell Ramsay
	💍 1919/8114
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	21	23
Dwelling Place	Green Island	Dunedin
Length of Residence	16 years	23 years
Marriage Place	House of A. Ramsay, 126 Kaikorai Road, Roslyn
Folio	7740
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

740

24 December 1919

Louis Fairfax Muir
Mary Porter Glenn

Louis Fairfax Muir
Mary Porter Glenn
💍 1920/2592

Bachelor
Spinster

Mercantile Clerk

37
27

Dunedin
Dunedin

2 months
27 years

First Church, Dunedin

30/1920

24 December 1919

Rev. G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

No	740
Date of Notice	24 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Fairfax Muir	Mary Porter Glenn
	💍 1920/2592
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mercantile Clerk
Age	37	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	2 months	27 years
Marriage Place	First Church, Dunedin
Folio	30/1920
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

741

24 December 1919

Arthur Lawrence Stokes
Margaret Mason Brown

Arthur Laurence Stokes
Margaret Maron Brown
💍 1919/8115

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor

26
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
6 months

Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin

7741

24 December 1919

Rev. R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	741
Date of Notice	24 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Lawrence Stokes	Margaret Mason Brown
BDM Match (95%)	Arthur Laurence Stokes	Margaret Maron Brown
	💍 1919/8115
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	6 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin
Folio	7741
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

742

24 December 1919

Morton Freeman Samson
Hannah Carlyle Patterson

Morton Freeman Samson
Hannah Carlyle Patterson
💍 1920/2764

Bachelor
Spinster

Slaughterman

24
23

Burnside, Dunedin
Green Island

24 years
12 years

House of G. W. Patterson, Green Island

154/20

24 December 1919

Rev. J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

No	742
Date of Notice	24 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Morton Freeman Samson	Hannah Carlyle Patterson
	💍 1920/2764
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Slaughterman
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Burnside, Dunedin	Green Island
Length of Residence	24 years	12 years
Marriage Place	House of G. W. Patterson, Green Island
Folio	154/20
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

743

24 December 1919

John James Henry Lauder
Annie Murray

John James Henry Lauder
Annie Murray
💍 1919/8116

Bachelor
Spinster

Prison Warder

30
27

Dunedin
Purakanui

3 days
13 years

House of Mr. H. Murray, Purakanui, Port Chalmers

7742

24 December 1919

R. J. Miller, Presbyterian

No	743
Date of Notice	24 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John James Henry Lauder	Annie Murray
	💍 1919/8116
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Prison Warder
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Purakanui
Length of Residence	3 days	13 years
Marriage Place	House of Mr. H. Murray, Purakanui, Port Chalmers
Folio	7742
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 December 1919
Officiating Minister	R. J. Miller, 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).