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 2930

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

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

709

22 December 1919

Francis Marshall Bower Ramage
Agnes Cunningham

Francis Marshall Bower Ramage
Agnes Cunningham
💍 1919/8089

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Clerk

27
28

Dunedin
Dunedin

6 months
2 years

House of J. Chaplin, Skibo Street, Caversham

7715

22 December 1919

Rev. M. A. R. Pratt (Meth)

No	709
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Marshall Bower Ramage	Agnes Cunningham
	💍 1919/8089
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Clerk
Age	27	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	6 months	2 years
Marriage Place	House of J. Chaplin, Skibo Street, Caversham
Folio	7715
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. A. R. Pratt (Meth)

710

22 December 1919

Gabriel Mason Luke
Frances Jessica Mathieson

Gabriel Mason Luke
Frances Jessica Mathieson
💍 1919/8090

Bachelor
Spinster

School Teacher

33
27

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
2 months

House of J. Mathieson, 4 Carnarvon Street, Mornington

7716

22 December 1919

Rev. W. G. Dixon (Pres.)

No	710
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gabriel Mason Luke	Frances Jessica Mathieson
	💍 1919/8090
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School Teacher
Age	33	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	2 months
Marriage Place	House of J. Mathieson, 4 Carnarvon Street, Mornington
Folio	7716
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. G. Dixon (Pres.)

711

22 December 1919

William Thomas Morgan
Margaret Evelyn Pirie

William Thomas Myer
Margaret Evelyn Buie
💍 1919/8091

William Thomas Thompson
Margaret Hilda Wood
💍 1919/7877

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper's Assistant

31
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

10 years
25 years

Methodist Church, Stuart Street, Dunedin

7717

22 December 1919

Rev. C. Eaton (meth)

No	711
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Thomas Morgan	Margaret Evelyn Pirie
BDM Match (81%)	William Thomas Myer	Margaret Evelyn Buie
	💍 1919/8091
BDM Match (63%)	William Thomas Thompson	Margaret Hilda Wood
	💍 1919/7877
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper's Assistant
Age	31	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	10 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Stuart Street, Dunedin
Folio	7717
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Eaton (meth)

712

22 December 1919

George Thomas Bathgate
Eleanor Isabella McNee

George Thomas Bathgate
Eleanor Isabella McNee
💍 1919/8092

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

29
36

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
36 years

Presbyterian Church, Mornington

7718

22 December 1919

Rev. W. Trotter (Pres)

No	712
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Thomas Bathgate	Eleanor Isabella McNee
	💍 1919/8092
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	29	36
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	36 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Mornington
Folio	7718
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Trotter (Pres)

713

22 December 1919

Thomas Leicester Reynolds
Isabel Weir

Thomas Leicester Reynolds
Isabel Weir
💍 1919/8094

Bachelor
Divorced Decree absolute 14.11.19

Carpenter

32
37

Dunedin
Dunedin

32 years
23 years

House of Rev. W. Saunders, 4 View Street, Dunedin

7719

22 December 1919

Rev. W. Saunders (Cong.)

No	713
Date of Notice	22 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Leicester Reynolds	Isabel Weir
	💍 1919/8094
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced Decree absolute 14.11.19
Profession	Carpenter
Age	32	37
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	32 years	23 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. W. Saunders, 4 View Street, Dunedin
Folio	7719
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Saunders (Cong.)

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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).