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 2940

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 March 1924 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

15 February 1924

Archibald Chisholm
Wilhelmina Fitzpatrick

Archibald Chisholm
Wilhelmina Fitzpatrick
💍 1924/8293

Divorced Decree 12:9:1923
Widow 8:6:1913

Public Works Overseer

48
44

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
18 months

Residence of Mr. W. Thompson, 39 Driver Street, St. Kilda

765

15 February 1924

G. Thornton, Baptist

No	86
Date of Notice	15 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Chisholm	Wilhelmina Fitzpatrick
	💍 1924/8293
Condition	Divorced Decree 12:9:1923	Widow 8:6:1913
Profession	Public Works Overseer
Age	48	44
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	18 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. W. Thompson, 39 Driver Street, St. Kilda
Folio	765
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 February 1924
Officiating Minister	G. Thornton, Baptist

16 February 1924

Albert Henry Ramsay
Sarah Frances Roche

Albert Henry Ramsay
Sarah Frances Roche
💍 1924/8294

Bachelor
Spinster

Telephone Exchange Clerk

25
31

Dunedin
Dunedin

25 years
12 years

St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin

766

16 February 1924

J. P. Delany, Roman Catholic

No	87
Date of Notice	16 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Henry Ramsay	Sarah Frances Roche
	💍 1924/8294
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telephone Exchange Clerk
Age	25	31
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	25 years	12 years
Marriage Place	St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin
Folio	766
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1924
Officiating Minister	J. P. Delany, Roman Catholic

16 February 1924

Ernest Frank Hughes
Gladys Isabel Hopkins

Ernest Frank Hughes
Gladys Isabel Hopkins
💍 1924/8295

Bachelor
Spinster

Orchardist

25
25

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
3 days

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

767

16 February 1924

Registrar

No	88
Date of Notice	16 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Frank Hughes	Gladys Isabel Hopkins
	💍 1924/8295
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Orchardist
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	767
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1924
Officiating Minister	Registrar

16 February 1924

Philip Ernest Henry Davis
Mary Ellen Guthrie

Philip Ernest Henry Davis
Mary Ellen Guthrie
💍 1924/8296

Bachelor
Spinster

Woodbender

20
19

Dunedin
Dunedin

16 years
19 years

Residence of Mrs. Annie Guthrie, "Craigmore" Main Road, Ravensbourne

768

Issued under Section 27. A. Guthrie (Mother)

29 February 1924

J. J. O'Reilly, Roman Catholic

No	89
Date of Notice	16 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip Ernest Henry Davis	Mary Ellen Guthrie
	💍 1924/8296
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Woodbender
Age	20	19
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	16 years	19 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs. Annie Guthrie, "Craigmore" Main Road, Ravensbourne
Folio	768
Consent	Issued under Section 27. A. Guthrie (Mother)
Date of Certificate	29 February 1924
Officiating Minister	J. J. O'Reilly, Roman Catholic

18 February 1924

Ernest Gabriel Graham
Mary Emily Nichol

Ernest Gabriel Graham
Mary Emily Nichol
💍 1924/8297

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Officer

33
30

Dunedin
Dunedin

14 years
10 years

St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin

769

18 February 1924

J. P. Delany, Roman Catholic

No	90
Date of Notice	18 February 1924
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Gabriel Graham	Mary Emily Nichol
	💍 1924/8297
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Officer
Age	33	30
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	14 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Patricks Basilica, South Dunedin
Folio	769
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 February 1924
Officiating Minister	J. P. Delany, Roman Catholic

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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).