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 2859

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1922 Registrar A. E. [illegible]

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

19 January 1922

William Mail Lyall
Gertrude Margaret Medlin

William Mail Lyall
Gertrude Margaret Medlin
💍 1922/1432

Divorced Decree Absolute 20-12-1921
Spinster

Engineer

39
29

Dunedin
Dunedin

17 years
21 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

1182

19 January 1922

Deputy Registrar

No	31
Date of Notice	19 January 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Mail Lyall	Gertrude Margaret Medlin
	💍 1922/1432
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 20-12-1921	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	39	29
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	17 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	1182
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1922
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

19 January 1922

Frederick William Eric Mitchell
Eleanor Allen Crocome

Frederick William Eric Mitchell
Eleanor Allen Crocome
💍 1922/1433

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

25
26

Wellington
Dunedin

5 years
1 month

St. Matthews Church, Dunedin

1183

19 January 1922

W. Curzon-Siggers, Anglican

No	32
Date of Notice	19 January 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick William Eric Mitchell	Eleanor Allen Crocome
	💍 1922/1433
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Dunedin
Length of Residence	5 years	1 month
Marriage Place	St. Matthews Church, Dunedin
Folio	1183
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1922
Officiating Minister	W. Curzon-Siggers, Anglican

19 January 1922

Herbert Alfred Jacob
Dorothy Margaret Miller

Herbert Alfred Jacob
Dorothy Margaret Miller
💍 1922/1434

Bachelor
Spinster

Wood Machinist

25
21

Mosgiel
Mosgiel

2 years
21 years

Presbyterian Church, Mosgiel

1184

19 January 1922

T. N. Cuttle, Presbyterian

No	33
Date of Notice	19 January 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Alfred Jacob	Dorothy Margaret Miller
	💍 1922/1434
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Wood Machinist
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Mosgiel	Mosgiel
Length of Residence	2 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Mosgiel
Folio	1184
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1922
Officiating Minister	T. N. Cuttle, Presbyterian

19 January 1922

Richard Hugh Romeo Ross
Linda Mary Pringle

Richard Hugh Romeo Ross
Lynda Mary Pringle
💍 1922/1435

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

27
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

27 years
10 years

First Church, Dunedin

1185

19 January 1922

G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

No	34
Date of Notice	19 January 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Hugh Romeo Ross	Linda Mary Pringle
BDM Match (97%)	Richard Hugh Romeo Ross	Lynda Mary Pringle
	💍 1922/1435
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	27 years	10 years
Marriage Place	First Church, Dunedin
Folio	1185
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1922
Officiating Minister	G. H. Balfour, Presbyterian

20 January 1922

Archibald Ferguson
Alice Lilian Amelia Hall

Archibald Ferguson
Alice Lilian Amelia Hall
💍 1922/1412

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

29
21

Dunedin
Dunedin

8 years
19 years

St. Peters Church, Caversham

1186

20 January 1922

W. Uphill, Anglican

No	35
Date of Notice	20 January 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Ferguson	Alice Lilian Amelia Hall
	💍 1922/1412
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	8 years	19 years
Marriage Place	St. Peters Church, Caversham
Folio	1186
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1922
Officiating Minister	W. Uphill, Anglican

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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).