Intentions to Marry, 1922 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840510, 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.

1922g contains pages 2581-2980, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 2673

District of Oxford Quarter ending 30 June 1922 Registrar G. E. Jones

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

15 April 1922

Henry Newport
Gladys Olive Maude Seed

Henry Newport
Gladys Olive Maude Seed
💍 1922/4949

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

29
21

Oxford
Oxford

28 years
21 years

Methodist Church, Oxford

4563

15 April 1922

C. R. H. Duncan, Methodist

No	2
Date of Notice	15 April 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Newport	Gladys Olive Maude Seed
	💍 1922/4949
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	28 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Oxford
Folio	4563
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 April 1922
Officiating Minister	C. R. H. Duncan, Methodist

18 April 1922

Hubert John Francis
Katherine Dora Meyers

Hubert John Francis
Katharine Dora Meyers
💍 1922/4950

Bachelor
Spinster

Sheep Farmer
Domestic Duties

35
25

Oxford
Oxford

5 years
20 years

St. Marys Church, Coopers Creek

4564

18 April 1922

J. F. Feron, Church of England

No	3
Date of Notice	18 April 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hubert John Francis	Katherine Dora Meyers
BDM Match (98%)	Hubert John Francis	Katharine Dora Meyers
	💍 1922/4950
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sheep Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	35	25
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	5 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Marys Church, Coopers Creek
Folio	4564
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 April 1922
Officiating Minister	J. F. Feron, Church of England

6 June 1922

Pearson Edward Harley Feary
Rebecca Heda Morris

Pearson Edward Harley Feary
Rebecca Hilda Morris
💍 1922/4951

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

34
21

Oxford
Oxford

34 years
21 years

Methodist Church, Oxford

4565

6 June 1922

C. R. H. Duncan, Methodist

No	4
Date of Notice	6 June 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Pearson Edward Harley Feary	Rebecca Heda Morris
BDM Match (95%)	Pearson Edward Harley Feary	Rebecca Hilda Morris
	💍 1922/4951
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	34	21
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	34 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Oxford
Folio	4565
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 June 1922
Officiating Minister	C. R. H. Duncan, Methodist

15 June 1922

Edward James Grimsey
Dorothy Muriel Bradshaw

Edward James Grimsey
Dorothy Muriel Broadshaw
💍 1922/4952

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

40
24

Bennetts
Bennetts

10 years
2 years

Presbyterian Church, Oxford

4566

15 June 1922

Rev. Wm. Lewis, Presbyterian

No	5
Date of Notice	15 June 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward James Grimsey	Dorothy Muriel Bradshaw
BDM Match (98%)	Edward James Grimsey	Dorothy Muriel Broadshaw
	💍 1922/4952
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	40	24
Dwelling Place	Bennetts	Bennetts
Length of Residence	10 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Oxford
Folio	4566
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 June 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. Wm. Lewis, Presbyterian

19 June 1922

George Albert Ivory
Gladys Lilian Smith

George Albert Ivory
Gladys Lilian Smith
💍 1922/4953

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Dressmaker

32
26

Oxford
Oxford

32 years
6 years

Church of England

4567

19 June 1922

Rev. P. H. Pritchett, Church of England

No	6
Date of Notice	19 June 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Albert Ivory	Gladys Lilian Smith
	💍 1922/4953
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Dressmaker
Age	32	26
Dwelling Place	Oxford	Oxford
Length of Residence	32 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Church of England
Folio	4567
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 June 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. H. Pritchett, Church of England

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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).