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 2862

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

369

31 July 1919

Albert James Parker
Ethel Maud Tyrie

Albert James Parker
Ethel Maud Tyrie
💍 1919/4249

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

34
30

Dunedin
Dunedin

4 months
5 months

House of R. L. Aspinall, 29a Pacific Street, Roslyn.

4509

31 July 1919

R. S. Allan Presbyterian

No	369
Date of Notice	31 July 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert James Parker	Ethel Maud Tyrie
	💍 1919/4249
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	34	30
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	4 months	5 months
Marriage Place	House of R. L. Aspinall, 29a Pacific Street, Roslyn.
Folio	4509
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 July 1919
Officiating Minister	R. S. Allan Presbyterian

370

1 August 1919

Benjamin Thomas Tall
Isabella Gilchrist McLean

Benjamin Thomas Tall
Isabella Gilchirst McLean
💍 1919/4227

Widower 14/8/16
Spinster

Brewery hand

41
27

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 years
9 years

House of C. H. McLean, 6 Burke Street, Mornington.

4510

1 August 1919

B. F. Rothwell Methodist

No	370
Date of Notice	1 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Benjamin Thomas Tall	Isabella Gilchrist McLean
BDM Match (96%)	Benjamin Thomas Tall	Isabella Gilchirst McLean
	💍 1919/4227
Condition	Widower 14/8/16	Spinster
Profession	Brewery hand
Age	41	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 years	9 years
Marriage Place	House of C. H. McLean, 6 Burke Street, Mornington.
Folio	4510
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1919
Officiating Minister	B. F. Rothwell Methodist

371

1 August 1919

Andrew Carlile Park
Agnes Amy Elizabeth Matthews

Andrew Carlile Park
Agnes Amy Elizabeth Matthews
💍 1919/4228

Bachelor
Spinster

Carter

20
19

Dunedin
Dunedin

20 years
19 years

House of J. McGuire, 30 Bath Street, Dunedin.

4511

C. Park (Father), T. Phillips (Mother)

1 August 1919

R. Fairmaid Presbyterian

No	371
Date of Notice	1 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Andrew Carlile Park	Agnes Amy Elizabeth Matthews
	💍 1919/4228
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carter
Age	20	19
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	20 years	19 years
Marriage Place	House of J. McGuire, 30 Bath Street, Dunedin.
Folio	4511
Consent	C. Park (Father), T. Phillips (Mother)
Date of Certificate	1 August 1919
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid Presbyterian

372

2 August 1919

Wilfred Charles Waldren
Olive May Coughlan

Wilfred Charles Waldren
Olive May Coughlan
💍 1919/4229

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor driver

26
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

22 years
21 years

Trinity Methodist Church, Dunedin.

4512

2 August 1919

M.A.R. Pratt Methodist

No	372
Date of Notice	2 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wilfred Charles Waldren	Olive May Coughlan
	💍 1919/4229
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor driver
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	22 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Trinity Methodist Church, Dunedin.
Folio	4512
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 August 1919
Officiating Minister	M.A.R. Pratt Methodist

373

4 August 1919

Alfred Thomas Halsall
Annie Judd

Alfred Thomas Halsall
Annie Judd
💍 1919/4230

Widower 16/4/13
Spinster

Seaman

49
38

Dunedin
Dunedin

5 years
5 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin.

4513

4 August 1919

A. R. Kennedy Registrar

No	373
Date of Notice	4 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Thomas Halsall	Annie Judd
	💍 1919/4230
Condition	Widower 16/4/13	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	49	38
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin.
Folio	4513
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 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).