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 3086

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 31 December 1925

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

545

3 October 1925

Christopher Barrowclough
Ellen Annie Keighran

Christopher Barrowclough
Ellen Annie Keighran
💍 1925/8953

Widower
Married not seen or heard as alive for 7 years last past

Cement Worker

47
50

Dunedin
Dunedin

12 years
14 years

Registrar's Office, Dunedin

9011

3 October 1925

Registrar

No	545
Date of Notice	3 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Christopher Barrowclough	Ellen Annie Keighran
	💍 1925/8953
Condition	Widower	Married not seen or heard as alive for 7 years last past
Profession	Cement Worker
Age	47	50
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	12 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Dunedin
Folio	9011
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 October 1925
Officiating Minister	Registrar

546

5 October 1925

John Frederick Rosenbrock
Christina Brydon Rosenbrock

John Frederick Rosenbrock
Christina Brydon Rosenbrock
💍 1925/8954

Bachelor
Widow 6 August 1922

Labourer

45
51

Dunedin
Dunedin

45 years
51 years

Presbyterian Church, 33 Young Street, St. Kilda

9012

5 October 1925

D. Heggie, Presbyterian

No	546
Date of Notice	5 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Frederick Rosenbrock	Christina Brydon Rosenbrock
	💍 1925/8954
Condition	Bachelor	Widow 6 August 1922
Profession	Labourer
Age	45	51
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	45 years	51 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, 33 Young Street, St. Kilda
Folio	9012
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 October 1925
Officiating Minister	D. Heggie, Presbyterian

547

5 October 1925

John Aspinall White
Veronica Aquinas Gawne

John Aspinall White
Veronica Acquinas Gawne
💍 1925/8955

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Engineer

27
27

Dunedin
Dunedin

12 years
27 years

Residence of Mr. E.W. Gawne, 1 Heriot Row, Dunedin

9013

5 October 1925

C.J. Collins, Roman Catholic

No	547
Date of Notice	5 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Aspinall White	Veronica Aquinas Gawne
BDM Match (98%)	John Aspinall White	Veronica Acquinas Gawne
	💍 1925/8955
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Engineer
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	12 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. E.W. Gawne, 1 Heriot Row, Dunedin
Folio	9013
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 October 1925
Officiating Minister	C.J. Collins, Roman Catholic

548

6 October 1925

Wallace Hatton Maxwell
Anne Elizabeth Grant McLeod

Wallace Hatton Maxwell
Anne Elizabeth Grant McLeod
💍 1925/8956

Bachelor
Spinster

Storekeeper

31
30

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
3 days

Presbyterian Church, Green Island

9014

6 October 1925

J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

No	548
Date of Notice	6 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wallace Hatton Maxwell	Anne Elizabeth Grant McLeod
	💍 1925/8956
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storekeeper
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Green Island
Folio	9014
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 October 1925
Officiating Minister	J. Kilpatrick, Presbyterian

549

6 October 1925

George Alfred Naylor
Kathleen Elizabeth Mackisack

George Alfred Naylor
Kathleen Elizabeth MacKisack
💍 1925/8957

Bachelor
Spinster

Student

27
34

Dunedin
Dunedin

8 years
34 years

St. Andrews Church, Dunedin

9015

6 October 1925

H. Maclean, Presbyterian

No	549
Date of Notice	6 October 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Alfred Naylor	Kathleen Elizabeth Mackisack
BDM Match (98%)	George Alfred Naylor	Kathleen Elizabeth MacKisack
	💍 1925/8957
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Student
Age	27	34
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	8 years	34 years
Marriage Place	St. Andrews Church, Dunedin
Folio	9015
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 October 1925
Officiating Minister	H. Maclean, 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).

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).