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 2868

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 30 September 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

399

14 August 1919

Norman Leslie Neighbours
Florence Ada Quinton

Norman Leslie Neighbours
Florence Ada Quinton
💍 1919/5225

Bachelor
Spinster

Brick & Pottery Manufacturer

30
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

14 days
2 years

House of A. Quinton, 30 Rutherford Street, Caversham

4537

14 August 1919

C. Dallaston, Baptist

No	399
Date of Notice	14 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Norman Leslie Neighbours	Florence Ada Quinton
	💍 1919/5225
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Brick & Pottery Manufacturer
Age	30	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	14 days	2 years
Marriage Place	House of A. Quinton, 30 Rutherford Street, Caversham
Folio	4537
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 August 1919
Officiating Minister	C. Dallaston, Baptist

400

15 August 1919

Thomas Middlemiss
Ivy Larsen

Thomas Middlemiss
Ivy Larsen
💍 1919/5226

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

34
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
2 months

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

4538

15 August 1919

A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

No	400
Date of Notice	15 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Middlemiss	Ivy Larsen
	💍 1919/5226
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	34	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	2 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	4538
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 August 1919
Officiating Minister	A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

401

15 August 1919

Albert Leslie Crawshaw
Margaret Louise Hoyne

Albert Leslie Crawshaw
Margaret Louise Sloyne
💍 1919/5227

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

25
21

Dunedin
St. Kilda

25 years
12 years

Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin

4539

15 August 1919

R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	401
Date of Notice	15 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Leslie Crawshaw	Margaret Louise Hoyne
BDM Match (95%)	Albert Leslie Crawshaw	Margaret Louise Sloyne
	💍 1919/5227
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	St. Kilda
Length of Residence	25 years	12 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin
Folio	4539
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 August 1919
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

402

15 August 1919

Fred Barclay
Jessie Christina Miller

Fred Barclay
Jessie Christina Miller
💍 1919/5228

Bachelor
Spinster

Coal Deputy

26
22

Green Island
Green Island

12 years
11 years

Bungalow Tea Rooms, 76 Victoria Road, St. Kilda

4540

15 August 1919

R. S. Watson, Presbyterian

No	402
Date of Notice	15 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Fred Barclay	Jessie Christina Miller
	💍 1919/5228
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Coal Deputy
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Green Island	Green Island
Length of Residence	12 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Bungalow Tea Rooms, 76 Victoria Road, St. Kilda
Folio	4540
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 August 1919
Officiating Minister	R. S. Watson, Presbyterian

403

16 August 1919

Benjamin Wood
Mary McNeil

Benjamin Wood
Mary McNeil
💍 1919/5229

Bachelor
Divorced Decree absolute 23/10/18

Carpenter

35
34

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
34 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

4541

16 August 1919

A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

No	403
Date of Notice	16 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Benjamin Wood	Mary McNeil
	💍 1919/5229
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced Decree absolute 23/10/18
Profession	Carpenter
Age	35	34
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	34 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	4541
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 August 1919
Officiating Minister	A. R. Kennedy, Registrar

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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).