Intentions to Marry, 1923 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840518, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1923 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.

1923g contains pages 2671-3084, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 2961

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1923

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

21 February 1923

Cecil Bayley Winefield
Ann Crawford Morrison

Cecil Bayley Winefield
Ann Crawford Morrison
💍 1923/1832

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

24
19

Dunedin
Dunedin

24 years
18 months

Residence of Mr. D.J. Telfer, 31 Main South Road, Hillside, Dunedin

1319

Issued under Section 27

7 March 1923

R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

No	71
Date of Notice	21 February 1923
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Bayley Winefield	Ann Crawford Morrison
	💍 1923/1832
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	24 years	18 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. D.J. Telfer, 31 Main South Road, Hillside, Dunedin
Folio	1319
Consent	Issued under Section 27
Date of Certificate	7 March 1923
Officiating Minister	R. Fairmaid, Presbyterian

24 February 1923

Arthur Seddon Peat
Jessie Arnot Glenn

Arthur Seddon Peat
Jessie Arnot Glenn
💍 1923/1833

Divorced Decree Absolute 23:2:1923
Spinster

Baker's Assistant

26
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

24 years
21 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

1320

24 February 1923

Registrar

No	72
Date of Notice	24 February 1923
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Seddon Peat	Jessie Arnot Glenn
	💍 1923/1833
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 23:2:1923	Spinster
Profession	Baker's Assistant
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	24 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	1320
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 February 1923
Officiating Minister	Registrar

26 February 1923

Charles Grahame Flockton
Emily Myrtle Vincent

Charles Grahame Flockton
Emily Myrtle Vincent
💍 1923/1834

Bachelor
Spinster

Hardware Assistant

25
26

Dunedin
Dunedin

9 years
8 years

Baptist Church, South Dunedin

1321

26 February 1923

G. Thornton, Baptist

No	73
Date of Notice	26 February 1923
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Grahame Flockton	Emily Myrtle Vincent
	💍 1923/1834
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hardware Assistant
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	9 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church, South Dunedin
Folio	1321
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 February 1923
Officiating Minister	G. Thornton, Baptist

26 February 1923

Alan Everest
Eleanor Florence Turnbull

Alan Everest
Eleanor Florence Turnbull
💍 1923/1835

Bachelor
Spinster

Machinist

29
29

Dunedin
Dunedin

12 years
29 years

Residence of Mr. Robert Turnbull, 16 City Road, Roslyn

1322

26 February 1923

T. A. Pybus, Methodist

No	74
Date of Notice	26 February 1923
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alan Everest	Eleanor Florence Turnbull
	💍 1923/1835
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Machinist
Age	29	29
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	12 years	29 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. Robert Turnbull, 16 City Road, Roslyn
Folio	1322
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 February 1923
Officiating Minister	T. A. Pybus, Methodist

26 February 1923

Leonard D'Arcy Mitchell
Elsie Lavinia Orange

Leonard D'Arcy Mitchell
Elsie Lavinia Orange
💍 1923/1836

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

33
31

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
4 days

Presbyterian Church, North East Valley

1323

26 February 1923

R.E. Evans, Presbyterian

No	75
Date of Notice	26 February 1923
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard D'Arcy Mitchell	Elsie Lavinia Orange
	💍 1923/1836
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	33	31
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	4 days
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, North East Valley
Folio	1323
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 February 1923
Officiating Minister	R.E. Evans, 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).