On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 Bob Matthews <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote > After 1881 researchers (re Intentions to Marry) need to know > the approximate date and the place of marriage. While generally agreeing with what Bob wrote, one may need to look further afield. I have seen an exception … On one of my visits to Wellington archives I saw an Intention filed in Auckland for a marriage that was to take place in Wellington. It helps to be able to read upside down when searching the Intentions to Marry. Facing pages are aligned with the top of the page down the centrefold :-( It would be a good project to index the Intentions past 1881 :-) Graham. > Subject: Re: [nz] Intent to marry Dunedin ? > > Hi Jonathan > > email National Archives, Wellington > > Intention to Marry Notices > > Archives New Zealand in Wellington holds Registers of Notices of > Intention to Marry <http://archives.govt.nz/personal-identity <http://archives.govt.nz/personal-identity>> for the > whole of New Zealand for the period 1856-1956 [BDM 20/1-375]. Other > offices have some regional registers. > > A card index to Notices of Intention to Marry in the Wellington Reading > Room gives access to Notices in the Registers for the period 1856-1881. > > The Registers are organised in 3 monthly periods and by place of > registry roughly from north to south, but alphabetical within regions. > After 1881 researchers need to know the approximate date and the place > of marriage. > > Bob M