Intentions to Marry, 1921 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840502, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1921 is bound in eight volumes (a to h) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1921g contains pages 2691-3126, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 3060

District of 30 September 1921 Quarter ending Dunedin Registrar A. W. Smith

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

476

29 July 1921

Frederick George Carter
Violet Victoria Green

Frederick George Carter
Violet Victoria Green
💍 1921/2149

Divorced Decree Absolute 14/12/1920
Divorced Decree Absolute 14/6/1921

Taxi Proprietor

38
34

Dunedin
Dunedin

37 years
14 years

Residence of R. E. Davies, 30 Royal Terrace Dunedin

6769

29 July 1921

R. E. Davies, Presbyterian

No	476
Date of Notice	29 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick George Carter	Violet Victoria Green
	💍 1921/2149
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 14/12/1920	Divorced Decree Absolute 14/6/1921
Profession	Taxi Proprietor
Age	38	34
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	37 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Residence of R. E. Davies, 30 Royal Terrace Dunedin
Folio	6769
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1921
Officiating Minister	R. E. Davies, Presbyterian

477

29 July 1921

Gerald Samuel Cashion
Irene Louise Erridge

Gerald Samuel Cashion
Irene Louise Erridge
💍 1921/2151

Bachelor
Spinster

Machinist

24
19

Milton
Dunedin

10 months
19 years

Residence of Mrs. H. R. Erridge, 15 Jones Street Dunedin

6770

H. R. Erridge (Mother)

29 July 1921

F. M. Beattie, Presbyterian

No	477
Date of Notice	29 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gerald Samuel Cashion	Irene Louise Erridge
	💍 1921/2151
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Machinist
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Milton	Dunedin
Length of Residence	10 months	19 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs. H. R. Erridge, 15 Jones Street Dunedin
Folio	6770
Consent	H. R. Erridge (Mother)
Date of Certificate	29 July 1921
Officiating Minister	F. M. Beattie, Presbyterian

478

29 July 1921

Hugh McDonald Manley
Emily Louisa May Budge

Hugh McDonald Manley
Emily Louisa May Budge
💍 1921/2152

Bachelor
Spinster

Letterpress Machinist

27
24

Dunedin
Ravensbourne

27 years
24 years

Methodist Church, Dundas Street Dunedin

6771

29 July 1921

W. J. Oxbrow, Methodist

No	478
Date of Notice	29 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh McDonald Manley	Emily Louisa May Budge
	💍 1921/2152
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Letterpress Machinist
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Ravensbourne
Length of Residence	27 years	24 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Dundas Street Dunedin
Folio	6771
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1921
Officiating Minister	W. J. Oxbrow, Methodist

479

29 July 1921

Harry Albert Robertson Harley
Hannah Pretoria Edwards

Harry Albert Robertson Harley
Hannah Pretoria Edwards
💍 1921/2153

Bachelor
Spinster

Iron Turner

21
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

21 years
5 years

Residence of Mr. J. Dove, 15 Council Street St. Kilda

6772

29 July 1921

B. Metson, Methodist

No	479
Date of Notice	29 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harry Albert Robertson Harley	Hannah Pretoria Edwards
	💍 1921/2153
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Iron Turner
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	21 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. J. Dove, 15 Council Street St. Kilda
Folio	6772
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1921
Officiating Minister	B. Metson, Methodist

480

1 August 1921

Thomas Miller
Mabel Craig

Thomas Miller
Mabel Craig
💍 1921/2154

Thomas Ballintyre
Mary Ethel Craig
💍 1921/4630

Bachelor
Spinster

Paper Ruler

24
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

19 years
7 months

Presbyterian Church, North East Valley

6773

1 August 1921

R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

No	480
Date of Notice	1 August 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Miller	Mabel Craig
	💍 1921/2154
BDM Match (61%)	Thomas Ballintyre	Mary Ethel Craig
	💍 1921/4630
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Paper Ruler
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	19 years	7 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, North East Valley
Folio	6773
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1921
Officiating Minister	R. E. Evans, 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).