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 3054

District of Dunedin Quarter ending 30 September 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

388

13 July 1925

Robert Victor Stewart
Winifred Evaline Perry

Robert Victor Stewart Perry
Winifred Evaline Winton
💍 1925/6378

Bachelor
Spinster

Compositor

34
24

Dunedin
Dunedin

34 years
1 year

Presbyterian Church, Andersons Bay

6330

13 July 1925

G. H. Jupp, Presbyterian

No	388
Date of Notice	13 July 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Victor Stewart	Winifred Evaline Perry
BDM Match (76%)	Robert Victor Stewart Perry	Winifred Evaline Winton
	💍 1925/6378
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Compositor
Age	34	24
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	34 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Andersons Bay
Folio	6330
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 July 1925
Officiating Minister	G. H. Jupp, Presbyterian

389

14 July 1925

Reginald Thomas Harris
Isabelle Marion Gregory

Thomas Reginald Harris
Isabelle Marion Gregory
💍 1925/6379

Bachelor
Spinster

Cycle Mechanic

24
23

Dunedin
Dunedin

3 days
3 months

Methodist Church, Roslyn

6331

14 July 1925

A. Hopper, Methodist

No	389
Date of Notice	14 July 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Thomas Harris	Isabelle Marion Gregory
BDM Match (68%)	Thomas Reginald Harris	Isabelle Marion Gregory
	💍 1925/6379
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cycle Mechanic
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	3 days	3 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Roslyn
Folio	6331
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1925
Officiating Minister	A. Hopper, Methodist

390

14 July 1925

Ewen Grant Duff
Margaret Mary Fitzgerald

Ewen Grant Duff
Margaret Mary Fitzgerald
💍 1925/6380

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

25
25

Dunedin
Oamaru

3 days
21 years

St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin

6332

14 July 1925

F. McMahon, Roman Catholic

No	390
Date of Notice	14 July 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ewen Grant Duff	Margaret Mary Fitzgerald
	💍 1925/6380
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Oamaru
Length of Residence	3 days	21 years
Marriage Place	St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin
Folio	6332
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1925
Officiating Minister	F. McMahon, Roman Catholic

391

14 July 1925

James Joseph Foley
Madeline Mary Goodger

James Joseph Foley
Madeline Mary Goodser
💍 1925/6381

Bachelor
Spinster

Medical Student

26
22

Dunedin
Dunedin

6 years
22 years

St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin

6333

14 July 1925

B. Kaveney, Roman Catholic

No	391
Date of Notice	14 July 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Joseph Foley	Madeline Mary Goodger
BDM Match (98%)	James Joseph Foley	Madeline Mary Goodser
	💍 1925/6381
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Medical Student
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Dunedin
Length of Residence	6 years	22 years
Marriage Place	St. Josephs Cathedral, Dunedin
Folio	6333
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1925
Officiating Minister	B. Kaveney, Roman Catholic

392

14 July 1925

Alfred Hollows
Vera Catherine Webber

Alfred Hollows
Vera Catherine Webber
💍 1925/6382

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

26
28

Dunedin
Ravensbourne

17 months
28 years

Methodist Parsonage, 56 Royal Terrace, Dunedin

6334

14 July 1925

W. Walker, Methodist

No	392
Date of Notice	14 July 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Hollows	Vera Catherine Webber
	💍 1925/6382
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Ravensbourne
Length of Residence	17 months	28 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Parsonage, 56 Royal Terrace, Dunedin
Folio	6334
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1925
Officiating Minister	W. Walker, 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).