Intentions to Marry, 1924 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840526, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1924 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.

1924g contains pages 2647-3074, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 2767

District of Rangiora Quarter ending 31 March 1924 Registrar H. G. Davis

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

12 January 1924

Lumsden Garside Taylor
Barbara Ada Hodgson

Lumsden Garside Taylor
Barbara Ada Hodgson
💍 1924/10162

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber
Teacher

29
26

Christchurch
North Loburn

Life
Life

Raithby Methodist Church

2185

12 January 1924

Rev. A. N. Scotter

No	1
Date of Notice	12 January 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lumsden Garside Taylor	Barbara Ada Hodgson
	💍 1924/10162
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber	Teacher
Age	29	26
Dwelling Place	Christchurch	North Loburn
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	Raithby Methodist Church
Folio	2185
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1924
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. N. Scotter

12 January 1924

Eric Charles Bailey
Margaret Robertson Sommers

Eric Charles Bailey
Margaret Robertson Sommers
💍 1924/10163

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Laborer
Domestic

19
18

Fernside
Fernside

1 year
18 years

Office of the Registrar at Rangiora

2186

James Bailey, Father; Eliza Jane Sommers, mother

24 January 1924

H. G. Davis, Registrar

No	2
Date of Notice	12 January 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Eric Charles Bailey	Margaret Robertson Sommers
	💍 1924/10163
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Laborer	Domestic
Age	19	18
Dwelling Place	Fernside	Fernside
Length of Residence	1 year	18 years
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar at Rangiora
Folio	2186
Consent	James Bailey, Father; Eliza Jane Sommers, mother
Date of Certificate	24 January 1924
Officiating Minister	H. G. Davis, Registrar

5 February 1924

John Meitke
Maude Aline Adella Buckley

John Meikle
Maude Aline Adella Buckley
💍 1924/10164

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
School Teacher

30
32

Motunau
Rangiora

32 years
32 years

St. Johns Anglican Church, Rangiora

2187

5 February 1924

Rev. J. F. Feron

No	3
Date of Notice	5 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Meitke	Maude Aline Adella Buckley
BDM Match (91%)	John Meikle	Maude Aline Adella Buckley
	💍 1924/10164
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	School Teacher
Age	30	32
Dwelling Place	Motunau	Rangiora
Length of Residence	32 years	32 years
Marriage Place	St. Johns Anglican Church, Rangiora
Folio	2187
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 February 1924
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. F. Feron

5 February 1924

Leonard Raymond James
Delia Kelly

Leonard Raymond James
Delia Kelly
💍 1924/10165

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer
Confectioner

25
27

Rangiora
Rangiora

Life
3 years

Roman Catholic Church, Rangiora

2188

5 February 1924

Rev. Patrick O'Doherty

No	4
Date of Notice	5 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Raymond James	Delia Kelly
	💍 1924/10165
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer	Confectioner
Age	25	27
Dwelling Place	Rangiora	Rangiora
Length of Residence	Life	3 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Rangiora
Folio	2188
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 February 1924
Officiating Minister	Rev. Patrick O'Doherty

21 February 1924

Geoffrey Edward Yates
Grewanda Maude Turner

Geoffrey Edward Yates
Guewanda Maude Turner
💍 1924/10166

Bachelor
Spinster

School Teacher
Domestic

23
27

Rangiora
Rangiora

14 days
Life

Office of the Registrar, Rangiora

2189

21 February 1924

H. G. Davis, Registrar

No	5
Date of Notice	21 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Geoffrey Edward Yates	Grewanda Maude Turner
BDM Match (98%)	Geoffrey Edward Yates	Guewanda Maude Turner
	💍 1924/10166
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School Teacher	Domestic
Age	23	27
Dwelling Place	Rangiora	Rangiora
Length of Residence	14 days	Life
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar, Rangiora
Folio	2189
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1924
Officiating Minister	H. G. Davis, Registrar

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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).