Intentions to Marry, 1919 Dunstan to Chatham Islands

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840487, 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.

1919g contains pages 2943-3338, covering districts from Dunstan to Chatham Islands

Page 3173

District of Campbelltown Quarter ending 30 June 1919 Registrar W. H. Gourley

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

7 April 1919

Francis William McDonald
Emma Alexandria Tall

Francis William McDonald
Emma Alexandria Tall
💍 1919/4811

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Shop Assistant

22
20

Bluff
Bluff

10 years
20 years

Residence of Mrs A. Tall, Bluff

4043

Agnes Tall, mother

7 April 1919

Rev T. Skuse

No	2
Date of Notice	7 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis William McDonald	Emma Alexandria Tall
	💍 1919/4811
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Shop Assistant
Age	22	20
Dwelling Place	Bluff	Bluff
Length of Residence	10 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs A. Tall, Bluff
Folio	4043
Consent	Agnes Tall, mother
Date of Certificate	7 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev T. Skuse

15 April 1919

Archibald Campbell McKillop
Barbara Elsie Rasmussen

Archibald Campbell McKillop
Barbara Elsie Erasmuson
💍 1919/4844

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer
Domestic duties

30
24

Bluff
Invercargill

2 years
3 days

Residence of Mr D McKillop, 100 Liddel St, Invercargill

4075

15 April 1919

Rev H. W. Burridge

No	3
Date of Notice	15 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Campbell McKillop	Barbara Elsie Rasmussen
BDM Match (91%)	Archibald Campbell McKillop	Barbara Elsie Erasmuson
	💍 1919/4844
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer	Domestic duties
Age	30	24
Dwelling Place	Bluff	Invercargill
Length of Residence	2 years	3 days
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr D McKillop, 100 Liddel St, Invercargill
Folio	4075
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev H. W. Burridge

20 May 1919

Job William Bradshaw
Ruby Eggerton Hannah

Job William Bradshaw
Ruby Eggerton Hannah
💍 1919/4812

Bachelor
Spinster

Bridgeman N.Z. Railways
Music Teacher

35
30

Bluff
Bluff

12 years
12 years

Church of England, Bluff

4044

20 May 1919

Rev W. H. Roberts

No	4
Date of Notice	20 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Job William Bradshaw	Ruby Eggerton Hannah
	💍 1919/4812
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bridgeman N.Z. Railways	Music Teacher
Age	35	30
Dwelling Place	Bluff	Bluff
Length of Residence	12 years	12 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Bluff
Folio	4044
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev W. H. Roberts

23 May 1919

Archibald Angus McGillivray
Margaret May Allison

Archibald Angus McGillivray
Margaret May Allison
💍 1919/4814

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic duties

24
23

Bluff
Bluff

3 days
3 days

Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Bluff

4045

23 May 1919

A. E. Fordham, Deputy Registrar

No	5
Date of Notice	23 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Angus McGillivray	Margaret May Allison
	💍 1919/4814
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic duties
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Bluff	Bluff
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Bluff
Folio	4045
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 May 1919
Officiating Minister	A. E. Fordham, Deputy Registrar

4 June 1919

Charles Morgan Lewis
Eileen Holloway

Charles Morgan Lewis
Eileen Mary Holloway
💍 1919/4815

Bachelor
Spinster

Master Draper
Domestic duties

31
21

Invercargill
Bluff

31 years
8 years

Roman Catholic Church, Bluff

4046

4 June 1919

Rev Dean Burke

No	6
Date of Notice	4 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Morgan Lewis	Eileen Holloway
BDM Match (88%)	Charles Morgan Lewis	Eileen Mary Holloway
	💍 1919/4815
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Master Draper	Domestic duties
Age	31	21
Dwelling Place	Invercargill	Bluff
Length of Residence	31 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Bluff
Folio	4046
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Dean Burke

25 June 1919

Robert Tennant
Margaret Conway
formerly Flood

Robert Tennant
Margaret Conway
💍 1919/4816

Widowed 9 August 1909
Widow 4 December 1918

Labourer
Housemaid

40
30

Bluff
Bluff

11 1/2 years
2 years

Residence of Rev Robert Francis, Bluff

4047

25 June 1919

Rev R. Francis

No	7
Date of Notice	25 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Tennant	Margaret Conway formerly Flood
	💍 1919/4816
Condition	Widowed 9 August 1909	Widow 4 December 1918
Profession	Labourer	Housemaid
Age	40	30
Dwelling Place	Bluff	Bluff
Length of Residence	11 1/2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev Robert Francis, Bluff
Folio	4047
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev R. Francis

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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).