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 2922

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

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

669

12 December 1919

Daniel Arthur Robinson
Elva Jane Payne

Daniel Arthur Robinson
Elva Jane Payne
💍 1920/2381

Bachelor
Divorced. Decree absolute 9:12:19.

Packer

28
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 months
3 years

Presbyterian Manse, 33 Young Street, St Kilda

N.S. Not married

12 December 1919

Rev. R. Fairmaid (Pres)

No	669
Date of Notice	12 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Daniel Arthur Robinson	Elva Jane Payne
	💍 1920/2381
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced. Decree absolute 9:12:19.
Profession	Packer
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse, 33 Young Street, St Kilda
Folio	N.S. Not married
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Fairmaid (Pres)

670

12 December 1919

Arthur Avery
Nellie Stirling Cummings

Arthur Avery
Nellie Stirling Cummings
💍 1919/8076

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

29
24

Dunedin
Dunedin

6 months
24 years

All Saints Church, Dunedin

7678

12 December 1919

Rev. F. V. Fisher (C. of E.)

No	670
Date of Notice	12 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Avery	Nellie Stirling Cummings
	💍 1919/8076
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	6 months	24 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Dunedin
Folio	7678
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. V. Fisher (C. of E.)

671

12 December 1919

Osborn Hames
Florence Lucy Roberts

Osborn Hamer
Florence Lucy Roberts
💍 1919/8077

Bachelor
Spinster

Patternmaker

32
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

32 years
4 years

All Saints Church, Dunedin

7679

12 December 1919

Rev. F. V. Fisher (Ch. of E.)

No	671
Date of Notice	12 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Osborn Hames	Florence Lucy Roberts
BDM Match (96%)	Osborn Hamer	Florence Lucy Roberts
	💍 1919/8077
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Patternmaker
Age	32	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	32 years	4 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Dunedin
Folio	7679
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. V. Fisher (Ch. of E.)

672

12 December 1919

Arthur Morris Stevens
Ethel Bell Miller

Arthur Morris Stevens
Ethel Bell Miller
💍 1919/8078

Bachelor
Spinster

Fitter

28
24

Dunedin
Dunedin

20 years
8 years

House of Mr Miller, 196 Melbourne Street, South Dunedin

7680

12 December 1919

Mr A. B. Crisp (Ch. of Ch.)

No	672
Date of Notice	12 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Morris Stevens	Ethel Bell Miller
	💍 1919/8078
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fitter
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	20 years	8 years
Marriage Place	House of Mr Miller, 196 Melbourne Street, South Dunedin
Folio	7680
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Mr A. B. Crisp (Ch. of Ch.)

673

12 December 1919

Henry Gilbert Victor Green
Doris Crawford

Henry Gilbert Victor Green
Doris Crawford
💍 1919/8079

Widower 25:4:19
Spinster

Blouse manufacturer

31
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

31 years
10 years

Presbyterian Church, Albert Street, St Kilda

7681

12 December 1919

Rev. J. Miller (Pres.)

No	673
Date of Notice	12 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Gilbert Victor Green	Doris Crawford
	💍 1919/8079
Condition	Widower 25:4:19	Spinster
Profession	Blouse manufacturer
Age	31	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	31 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Albert Street, St Kilda
Folio	7681
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Miller (Pres.)

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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).