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 2932

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar M. M. 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

719

22 December 1919

Thomas Louis Barbeau
Jane Alexandra Robison Steele

Thomas Louis Barbean
Jane Alexandra Robison Steele
💍 1919/8107

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

46
32

Dunedin
Dunedin

14 years
32 years

St Patrick's Basilica South Dunedin

7725

22 December 1919

Rev. J. J. Delany (Roman Catholic)

No	719
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Louis Barbeau	Jane Alexandra Robison Steele
BDM Match (98%)	Thomas Louis Barbean	Jane Alexandra Robison Steele
	💍 1919/8107
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	46	32
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	14 years	32 years
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Basilica South Dunedin
Folio	7725
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. J. Delany (Roman Catholic)

720

22 December 1919

William Norman Adams
Grace Annie Jacobson

William Norman Adams
Grace Annie Jacobson
💍 1919/8118

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

24
20

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 days
4 years

Presbyterian Manse Caversham

7726

Edward Jacobson (Father)

22 December 1919

Rev. D. Dutton (Presbyterian)

No	720
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Norman Adams	Grace Annie Jacobson
	💍 1919/8118
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 days	4 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse Caversham
Folio	7726
Consent	Edward Jacobson (Father)
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. Dutton (Presbyterian)

721

22 December 1919

Francis Patrick Rodden
Emily Atkinson

Francis Patrick Rodden
Emily Atkinson
💍 1919/8125

Bachelor
Spinster

Traveller

22
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

7 years
4 years

Residence of W. Atkinson 295 Cargill Road South Dunedin

7727

22 December 1919

Rev. R. Fairmaid (Presbyterian)

No	721
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Patrick Rodden	Emily Atkinson
	💍 1919/8125
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Traveller
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	7 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Residence of W. Atkinson 295 Cargill Road South Dunedin
Folio	7727
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Fairmaid (Presbyterian)

722

22 December 1919

George Francis Inder
Glen Jeannette De Spong

George Francis Inder
Glen Jeannette De Spong
💍 1919/9774

Bachelor
Spinster

Law Clerk

30
31

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
12 years

St John's Church Roslyn

9568

22 December 1919

Rev. W. A. H. Fitchett (Church of England)

No	722
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Francis Inder	Glen Jeannette De Spong
	💍 1919/9774
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Law Clerk
Age	30	31
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	12 years
Marriage Place	St John's Church Roslyn
Folio	9568
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. A. H. Fitchett (Church of England)

723

23 December 1919

William Henry Caple
Mabel Hunter Brockie

William Henry Caple
Mabel Hunter Brockie
💍 1919/8126

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

25
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 months
2 years

First Church Manse Dunedin

7728

23 December 1919

Rev. G. H. Balfour (Presbyterian)

No	723
Date of Notice	23 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Henry Caple	Mabel Hunter Brockie
	💍 1919/8126
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 months	2 years
Marriage Place	First Church Manse Dunedin
Folio	7728
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. H. Balfour (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).