1862 Intentions to Marry

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840374, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke Howison at Archives NZ Wellington, December 11 2024

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 December 1862 Registrar John B Bennett

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

1336

11 October 1862

Michael Augustus Lambert
Agnes McNeice

Michael Augustus Lambert
Agnes McNiell
💍 1862/5161

Widower
Spinster

Labourer

45
28

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
4 years

St Patrick's Church Auckland

11 October 1862

Rev. M D. O'Hara, Roman Catholic

No	1336
Date of Notice	11 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Michael Augustus Lambert	Agnes McNeice
BDM Match (85%)	Michael Augustus Lambert	Agnes McNiell
	💍 1862/5161
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	45	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Church Auckland
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 October 1862
Officiating Minister	Rev. M D. O'Hara, Roman Catholic

1337

11 October 1862

George Pegg
Ellen Duggan

[No matching marriage registration has been located]

Widower
Spinster

Soldier H M 70th Regt

37
18

Otahuhu
Onehunga

15 months
14 years

Roman Catholic Church Onehunga

John Duggan, Father of Bride

1862

Certificate not claimed within 3 months

No	1337
Date of Notice	11 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Pegg	Ellen Duggan
BDM Match (9%)
	💍 [No matching marriage registration has been located]
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Soldier H M 70th Regt
Age	37	18
Dwelling Place	Otahuhu	Onehunga
Length of Residence	15 months	14 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Onehunga
Folio
Consent	John Duggan, Father of Bride
Date of Certificate	1862
Officiating Minister	Certificate not claimed within 3 months

1338

11 October 1862

Richard Taylor
Johanna Dooly

Richard Taylor
Johanna Dooly
💍 1862/4790

Bachelor
Spinster

Bandsman HM 70th Regt.

23
22

Otahuhu
Otahuhu

4 months
16 months

Roman Catholic Church Onehunga

3 November 1862

Very Rev J M Garavel, Roman Catholic

No	1338
Date of Notice	11 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Taylor	Johanna Dooly
	💍 1862/4790
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bandsman HM 70th Regt.
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	Otahuhu	Otahuhu
Length of Residence	4 months	16 months
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Onehunga
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 November 1862
Officiating Minister	Very Rev J M Garavel, Roman Catholic

1339

13 October 1862

Robert Froude
Priscilla White

Robert Froude
Priscilla White
💍 1862/4728

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

25
21

Newton
Auckland

4 years
18 years

Wesleyan Chapel, Hobson Street

13 October 1862

Rev. J. Warren, Wesleyan

No	1339
Date of Notice	13 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Froude	Priscilla White
	💍 1862/4728
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Newton	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Wesleyan Chapel, Hobson Street
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 October 1862
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Warren, Wesleyan

1340

14 October 1862

William Hutchinson Garner
Margaret Watson

[No matching marriage registration has been located]

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
22

North Shore
Drury

2 years
1 week

St. Matthew's Church, Auckland

11 November 1862

Rev. D. Jones, Church of England

No	1340
Date of Notice	14 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Hutchinson Garner	Margaret Watson
	💍 [No matching marriage registration has been located]
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	North Shore	Drury
Length of Residence	2 years	1 week
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Auckland
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 November 1862
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. Jones, Church of England

1341

14 October 1862

John Lynch
Sarah Hayman

John Lynch
Sarah Hayman
💍 1862/5012

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Overseer

25
28

East Tamaki
Howick

2 years
3 years

All Saints Church, Howick

28 October 1862

Rev. V. Lush, Church of England

No	1341
Date of Notice	14 October 1862
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Lynch	Sarah Hayman
	💍 1862/5012
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Overseer
Age	25	28
Dwelling Place	East Tamaki	Howick
Length of Residence	2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Howick
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 October 1862
Officiating Minister	Rev. V. Lush, Church of England

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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).