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 2743

District of Timaru Quarter ending 30 September 1922 Registrar F. E. Duncan

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

23 August 1922

Archibald Henry Muir
Katarina Te Pakeke

Archibald Henry Muir
Katarina Te Pakeke
💍 1922/8146

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Labourer
Domestic

34
25

Totara Valley
Timaru

20 years
3 days

Office of Registrar of Marriages, Timaru

6836

23 August 1922

F. E. Duncan, Registrar

No	94
Date of Notice	23 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Henry Muir	Katarina Te Pakeke
	💍 1922/8146
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Labourer	Domestic
Age	34	25
Dwelling Place	Totara Valley	Timaru
Length of Residence	20 years	3 days
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar of Marriages, Timaru
Folio	6836
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 August 1922
Officiating Minister	F. E. Duncan, Registrar

29 August 1922

Neils Martin Hansen
Florence Annie Rubina Gibson

Neils Martin Hansen
Florence Annie Rubina Gibson
💍 1922/8147

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

32
25

Hunter
Timaru

5 years
3 days

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Timaru

6837

29 August 1922

Rev. Thomas Stinson, Presbyterian

No	95
Date of Notice	29 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Neils Martin Hansen	Florence Annie Rubina Gibson
	💍 1922/8147
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	32	25
Dwelling Place	Hunter	Timaru
Length of Residence	5 years	3 days
Marriage Place	Trinity Presbyterian Church, Timaru
Folio	6837
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Stinson, Presbyterian

31 August 1922

Alfred Henry Wyatt
Ivy Eveline Wright

Alfred Henry Wyatt
Ivy Eveline Wright
💍 1922/8148

Bachelor
Spinster

Printer
Domestic

24
21

Timaru
Timaru

24 years
7 years

Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru

6838

31 August 1922

Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, Presbyterian

No	96
Date of Notice	31 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Henry Wyatt	Ivy Eveline Wright
	💍 1922/8148
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Printer	Domestic
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Timaru	Timaru
Length of Residence	24 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru
Folio	6838
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, Presbyterian

31 August 1922

Edward Cornelius Dugan
Helena Francis Xavier Nisbett

Edward Cornelius Dugan
Helena Francis Xavier Nisbett
💍 1922/8149

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Labourer
Dressmaker

24
21

Southbridge
Timaru

24 years
21 years

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Timaru

6839

31 August 1922

Rev. John M. Barra, Roman Catholic

No	97
Date of Notice	31 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Cornelius Dugan	Helena Francis Xavier Nisbett
	💍 1922/8149
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Labourer	Dressmaker
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Southbridge	Timaru
Length of Residence	24 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Timaru
Folio	6839
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. John M. Barra, Roman Catholic

2 September 1922

Hector McIntosh
Olive Murray

Hector McIntosh
Olive Murray
💍 1922/8150

Bachelor
Widow

Slaughterman
Domestic

20
26

Timaru
Timaru

20 years
1 year

Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru

6840

John McIntosh, Father

2 September 1922

Rev. P. G. Hughes, Presbyterian

No	98
Date of Notice	2 September 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hector McIntosh	Olive Murray
	💍 1922/8150
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Slaughterman	Domestic
Age	20	26
Dwelling Place	Timaru	Timaru
Length of Residence	20 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru
Folio	6840
Consent	John McIntosh, Father
Date of Certificate	2 September 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. G. Hughes, 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).