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 2888

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar A. R. Kennedy

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

499

07 October 1919

William Anderson Bamberry
Grace May Skilletter

William Anderson Bambery
Grace May Skilleter
💍 1919/5218

Bachelor
Spinster

Postal Officer

29
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

27 years
22 years

Registrar's Office Dunedin

7205

07 October 1919

A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

No	499
Date of Notice	07 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Anderson Bamberry	Grace May Skilletter
BDM Match (96%)	William Anderson Bambery	Grace May Skilleter
	💍 1919/5218
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Postal Officer
Age	29	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	27 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Dunedin
Folio	7205
Consent
Date of Certificate	07 October 1919
Officiating Minister	A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

500

07 October 1919

George Horace Perry
Dulcie Irene Naylor

George Horace Perry
Dulcie Irene Naylar
💍 1919/7632

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

29
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

8 years
6 months

Congregational Church King Street Dunedin

7206

07 October 1919

Rev. A. H. Wallace (Congregational)

No	500
Date of Notice	07 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Horace Perry	Dulcie Irene Naylor
BDM Match (97%)	George Horace Perry	Dulcie Irene Naylar
	💍 1919/7632
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	8 years	6 months
Marriage Place	Congregational Church King Street Dunedin
Folio	7206
Consent
Date of Certificate	07 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. H. Wallace (Congregational)

501

07 October 1919

Albert William Murdoch
Ellen Annie Agnew

Albert William Murdoch
Ellen Annie Agrew
💍 1919/7633

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 weeks
3 years

St. Patrick's Basilica South Dunedin

7207

07 October 1919

Rev. J. P. Delany (Roman Catholic)

No	501
Date of Notice	07 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert William Murdoch	Ellen Annie Agnew
BDM Match (97%)	Albert William Murdoch	Ellen Annie Agrew
	💍 1919/7633
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 weeks	3 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Basilica South Dunedin
Folio	7207
Consent
Date of Certificate	07 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. P. Delany (Roman Catholic)

502

09 October 1919

Robert Taylor
Agnes Millar

Robert Taylor
Agnes Millar
💍 1919/7634

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

30
27

Dunedin
Dunedin

28 years
7 years

Presbyterian Church North East Valley

7208

09 October 1919

Rev. R. E. Evans (Presbyterian)

No	502
Date of Notice	09 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Taylor	Agnes Millar
	💍 1919/7634
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	28 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church North East Valley
Folio	7208
Consent
Date of Certificate	09 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. E. Evans (Presbyterian)

503

10 October 1919

James Ramsay Roberts
Laura Jane Wilson Sharpe

James Ramsay Roberts
Laura Jane Wilson Sharpe
💍 1919/7635

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

32
28

Dunedin
Dunedin

32 years
6 years

Presbyterian Church Highgate Roslyn

7209

10 October 1919

Rev. W. G. Dixon (Presbyterian)

No	503
Date of Notice	10 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Ramsay Roberts	Laura Jane Wilson Sharpe
	💍 1919/7635
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	32	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	32 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Highgate Roslyn
Folio	7209
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. G. Dixon (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).