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 2833

District of Catlins Quarter ending 30 September 1922 Registrar J. Barber

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

27 July 1922

George Warnock
Jane Craig McNeill

George Warnock
Jane Craig McNeill
💍 1922/8082

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

25
19

Owaka Valley
Owaka Valley

25 years
19 years

Residence of John McNeill, Owaka Valley

6872

John McNeill, Father

27 July 1922

Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

No	7
Date of Notice	27 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Warnock	Jane Craig McNeill
	💍 1922/8082
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	25	19
Dwelling Place	Owaka Valley	Owaka Valley
Length of Residence	25 years	19 years
Marriage Place	Residence of John McNeill, Owaka Valley
Folio	6872
Consent	John McNeill, Father
Date of Certificate	27 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

3 August 1922

Thomas Morfan Taylor
Emily Mary Morris

Thomas Morgan Taylor
Emily Mary Morris
💍 1922/8083

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Labourer
Domestic duties

21
27

Owaka Valley
Owaka Valley

3 months
25 years

Residence of Rev. G. Wilcox, Owaka

6873

3 August 1922

Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

No	8
Date of Notice	3 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Morfan Taylor	Emily Mary Morris
BDM Match (98%)	Thomas Morgan Taylor	Emily Mary Morris
	💍 1922/8083
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Labourer	Domestic duties
Age	21	27
Dwelling Place	Owaka Valley	Owaka Valley
Length of Residence	3 months	25 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev. G. Wilcox, Owaka
Folio	6873
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

12 August 1922

John Cameron McFarlane
Mary Ellen McDougall

John Cameron McLachlan
Mary Ellen McDougall
💍 1922/8084

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Domestic duties

25
20

Owaka
Tahakopa

25 years
20 years

Residence of Mrs. McDougall, Tahakopa

6874

Margaret McDougall, Mother

12 August 1922

Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

No	9
Date of Notice	12 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Cameron McFarlane	Mary Ellen McDougall
BDM Match (91%)	John Cameron McLachlan	Mary Ellen McDougall
	💍 1922/8084
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Domestic duties
Age	25	20
Dwelling Place	Owaka	Tahakopa
Length of Residence	25 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs. McDougall, Tahakopa
Folio	6874
Consent	Margaret McDougall, Mother
Date of Certificate	12 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

25 August 1922

Arthur John Thomas Miller
Alice Harrington

Andrew John Thomas Miller
Alice Harrington
💍 1922/8085

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

36
25

Owaka
Ratanui

30 years
25 years

Presbyterian Church, Ratanui

6875

28 August 1922

Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

No	10
Date of Notice	25 August 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur John Thomas Miller	Alice Harrington
BDM Match (90%)	Andrew John Thomas Miller	Alice Harrington
	💍 1922/8085
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	36	25
Dwelling Place	Owaka	Ratanui
Length of Residence	30 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Ratanui
Folio	6875
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 August 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Wilcox, Presbyterian

11 September 1922

George Wood Kirby
Rosa Milner

George Wood Kirby
Rosa Milner
💍 1922/8086

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway surfaceman
Domestic duties

23
22

Houipapa
Houipapa

3 days
14 years

Baptist Church, Owaka

6876

11 September 1922

Rev. F. A. Parry, Baptist

No	11
Date of Notice	11 September 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Wood Kirby	Rosa Milner
	💍 1922/8086
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway surfaceman	Domestic duties
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	Houipapa	Houipapa
Length of Residence	3 days	14 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church, Owaka
Folio	6876
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 September 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. A. Parry, Baptist

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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).