Intentions to Marry, 1925 Cust to Dunedin

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840534, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1925 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.

1925g contains pages 2703-3132, covering districts from Cust to Dunedin

Page 2743

District of Kaiapoi Quarter ending 31 December 1925 Registrar C. H. Clarkson

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

5 October 1925

Reginald Frank Cattermole
Ethel Winifred Dunn

Reginald Frank Cattermole
Ethel Winifred Dunn
💍 1925/673

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee
Music Teacher

26
23

Kaiapoi
Kaiapoi

2 years
23 years

Church of England, Kaiapoi

10143

5 October 1925

Rev. J. T. Paddison, Anglican

No	23
Date of Notice	5 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Frank Cattermole	Ethel Winifred Dunn
	💍 1925/673
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee	Music Teacher
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Kaiapoi	Kaiapoi
Length of Residence	2 years	23 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Kaiapoi
Folio	10143
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 October 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. T. Paddison, Anglican

7 October 1925

Leslie Thomas Hide
Martha Louisa Whitlow

Leslie Thomas Hide
Martha Louisa Whitlow
💍 1925/674

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Dressmaker

22
22

West Eyreton
Woodend

6 months
22 years

Methodist Church, Woodend

10144

7 October 1925

Rev. W. B. Cuming, Methodist

No	24
Date of Notice	7 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Thomas Hide	Martha Louisa Whitlow
	💍 1925/674
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Dressmaker
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	West Eyreton	Woodend
Length of Residence	6 months	22 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Woodend
Folio	10144
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 October 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. B. Cuming, Methodist

27 October 1925

Henry Huru Penti
Hine Rose Manaena

Henry Hurn Teuki
Hine Rose Manaema
💍 1925/675

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Dressmaker

21
23

Tuahiwi
Tuahiwi

21 years
10 months

Registry Office, Kaiapoi

10145

27 October 1925

C. H. Clarkson, Registrar

No	25
Date of Notice	27 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Huru Penti	Hine Rose Manaena
BDM Match (85%)	Henry Hurn Teuki	Hine Rose Manaema
	💍 1925/675
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Dressmaker
Age	21	23
Dwelling Place	Tuahiwi	Tuahiwi
Length of Residence	21 years	10 months
Marriage Place	Registry Office, Kaiapoi
Folio	10145
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 October 1925
Officiating Minister	C. H. Clarkson, Registrar

9 December 1925

Hugh Wilfred Jarman
Alice Jane Cooke

Hugh Wilfred Jarman
Alice Jane Cooke
💍 1925/677

Bachelor
Spinster

Machine Hand
Domestic Duties

31
26

Ohoka
Ohoka

3 days
7 years

Presbyterian Church, Kaiapoi

10146

9 December 1925

Rev. G. K. Aitken, Presbyterian

No	26
Date of Notice	9 December 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Wilfred Jarman	Alice Jane Cooke
	💍 1925/677
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Machine Hand	Domestic Duties
Age	31	26
Dwelling Place	Ohoka	Ohoka
Length of Residence	3 days	7 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Kaiapoi
Folio	10146
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 December 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. K. Aitken, Presbyterian

11 December 1925

John Whitlow
Malvina Mona Pearl Forman

John Whitlow
Malvena Mona Pearl Forman
💍 1926/440

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee
Machinist

24
19

Woodend
Woodend

5 days
5 days

Methodist Church, Woodend

140

Andrew Melvern, Forman, Father

11 December 1925

Rev. W. B. Cuming, Methodist

No	27
Date of Notice	11 December 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Whitlow	Malvina Mona Pearl Forman
BDM Match (98%)	John Whitlow	Malvena Mona Pearl Forman
	💍 1926/440
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee	Machinist
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Woodend	Woodend
Length of Residence	5 days	5 days
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Woodend
Folio	140
Consent	Andrew Melvern, Forman, Father
Date of Certificate	11 December 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. B. Cuming, 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).

Primary digitisation of registers between 1855 and 1925 is now complete. Our digitisation volunteers are now working on verifying the currently digitised pages against printed district/page indexes, to identify pages which may have been missed or out of focus. These pages can be re-imaged as required.

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.

How can I help?

You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

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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).