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 2919

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 30 September 1922 Registrar A. E. McDougall

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

318

1 July 1922

Thomas Renwick
Martha May Morrison

Thomas Renwick
Martha May Morrison
💍 1922/5902

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Engine Driver

25
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

8 years
8 years

Residence of Mr. A. Morrison, 215 Melbourne Street, South Dunedin

5780

1 July 1922

R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	318
Date of Notice	1 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Renwick	Martha May Morrison
	💍 1922/5902
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Engine Driver
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	8 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. A. Morrison, 215 Melbourne Street, South Dunedin
Folio	5780
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 July 1922
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

319

1 July 1922

George Henry Wieck
Janet McGregor

George Henry Wieck
Janet McGregor
💍 1922/5903

Bachelor
Spinster

Cabinet Maker

22
20

Dunedin
Dunedin

22 years
16 years

Presbyterian Church, North East Valley

5781

Mary Jane McGregor (Mother)

1 July 1922

R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

No	319
Date of Notice	1 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Henry Wieck	Janet McGregor
	💍 1922/5903
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cabinet Maker
Age	22	20
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	22 years	16 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, North East Valley
Folio	5781
Consent	Mary Jane McGregor (Mother)
Date of Certificate	1 July 1922
Officiating Minister	R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

320

3 July 1922

Alexander Morrison Ramsey
Isabella Margaret Phyllis Gertrude Smith

Alexander Morrison Ramsay
Isabella Margaret Phyllis Gertrude Smith
💍 1922/5904

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

21
17

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
1 day

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

5782

John George Smith (Father)

3 July 1922

Registrar

No	320
Date of Notice	3 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Morrison Ramsey	Isabella Margaret Phyllis Gertrude Smith
BDM Match (98%)	Alexander Morrison Ramsay	Isabella Margaret Phyllis Gertrude Smith
	💍 1922/5904
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	21	17
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	1 day
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	5782
Consent	John George Smith (Father)
Date of Certificate	3 July 1922
Officiating Minister	Registrar

321

3 July 1922

Voss Duguid Drake
Olive Francis Marshall

Voss Duguid Drake
Olive Francis Marshall
💍 1922/5905

Bachelor
Spinster

Postman

28
24

Dunedin, Timaru
Dunedin

1 1/2 days
12 days

Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin

5783

3 July 1922

R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	321
Date of Notice	3 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Voss Duguid Drake	Olive Francis Marshall
	💍 1922/5905
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Postman
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin, Timaru	Dunedin
Length of Residence	1 1/2 days	12 days
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, South Dunedin
Folio	5783
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 July 1922
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

322

3 July 1922

Arthur Brown
Florence Nellie Hollander

Arthur Brown
Florence Nellie Hollander
💍 1922/5906

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

36
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 months
25 years

Methodist Church, Caversham

5784

3 July 1922

G. P. Hunt, Methodist

No	322
Date of Notice	3 July 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Brown	Florence Nellie Hollander
	💍 1922/5906
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	36	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 months	25 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Caversham
Folio	5784
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 July 1922
Officiating Minister	G. P. Hunt, Methodist

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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).