Intentions to Marry, 1922 Dannevirke to Palmerston North

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840507, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1922 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.

1922d contains pages 1291-1690, covering districts from Dannevirke to Palmerston North

Page 1437

District of Wairoa Quarter ending 30 September 1922 Registrar J. W. Fletcher

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 July 1922

Harold Louis Taylor
Minnie Dahm

Harold Louis Taylor
Minnie Dahm
💍 1922/7828

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

44
26

Burnside Frasertown
Burnside Frasertown

3 years
10 years

Dwelling place of Mrs. E. Taylor, Burnside Frasertown

6416

7 July 1922

Rev. G. N. Watson, Church of England

No	14
Date of Notice	7 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Louis Taylor	Minnie Dahm
	💍 1922/7828
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	44	26
Dwelling Place	Burnside Frasertown	Burnside Frasertown
Length of Residence	3 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling place of Mrs. E. Taylor, Burnside Frasertown
Folio	6416
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. N. Watson, Church of England

10 July 1922

Frederick James Crispin
Corless Bridie Dahm

Frederick James Crispin
Corless Bridie Dahm
💍 1922/7829

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

34
22

Clydebank
Clydebank

12 years
22 years

Dwelling place of Mrs. E. Taylor, Burnside

6417

10 July 1922

Rev. G. N. Watson, Church of England

No	15
Date of Notice	10 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick James Crispin	Corless Bridie Dahm
	💍 1922/7829
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	34	22
Dwelling Place	Clydebank	Clydebank
Length of Residence	12 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling place of Mrs. E. Taylor, Burnside
Folio	6417
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. N. Watson, Church of England

10 July 1922

Robert McCurdy
Eileen Robina Gardiner

Robert McCurdy
Eileen Robina Gardiner
💍 1922/7830

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

33
26

Wairoa
Wairoa

13 years
26 years

Presbyterian Manse, Wairoa

6418

10 July 1922

Rev. W. Raeburn, Presbyterian

No	16
Date of Notice	10 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert McCurdy	Eileen Robina Gardiner
	💍 1922/7830
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	33	26
Dwelling Place	Wairoa	Wairoa
Length of Residence	13 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse, Wairoa
Folio	6418
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Raeburn, Presbyterian

11 July 1922

Ernest Charles Bear
Margaret Donaldson

Ernest Charles Bear
Margaret Donaldson
💍 1922/7831

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic duties

39
18

Frasertown
Wairoa

3 years
1 year

Roman Catholic Church, Wairoa

6419

Matthew Donaldson, Father

11 July 1922

Rev. C. Lacroix, Roman Catholic

No	17
Date of Notice	11 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Charles Bear	Margaret Donaldson
	💍 1922/7831
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic duties
Age	39	18
Dwelling Place	Frasertown	Wairoa
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Wairoa
Folio	6419
Consent	Matthew Donaldson, Father
Date of Certificate	11 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Lacroix, Roman Catholic

26 July 1922

Watene Ranginui
Hemopaki Te Aranga

Watene Ranginui
Te Hemopaki Te Aranga
💍 1922/7832

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic duties

23
18

Awamate Frasertown
Kahotea Wahanui

4 years
18 years

Registrar's office, Wairoa

6420

Te Aranga, mother

26 July 1922

J. W. Fletcher, Registrar

No	18
Date of Notice	26 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Watene Ranginui	Hemopaki Te Aranga
BDM Match (93%)	Watene Ranginui	Te Hemopaki Te Aranga
	💍 1922/7832
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic duties
Age	23	18
Dwelling Place	Awamate Frasertown	Kahotea Wahanui
Length of Residence	4 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's office, Wairoa
Folio	6420
Consent	Te Aranga, mother
Date of Certificate	26 July 1922
Officiating Minister	J. W. Fletcher, 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).