Intentions to Marry, 1882

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840394, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, April 16 2025

Page 373

District of Wanganui Quarter ending 30 September 1882

No	Date of Notice	Names and Surnames of Parties	BDM Match	Condition	Calling or Profession	Age	Dwelling Place	Length of Residence	Marriage Place	Folio	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
46	05 July 1882	John Henry Panteion Alice Blake		Bachelor Widow	Laborer	35 33	Wanganui Wanganui	3 days 3 days	In the residence of the Rev. B.H.		05 July 1882	Rev. B.H. Kirk Roman Catholic
47	08 July 1882	Patrick O'Connor Annie Devlin	Patrick O'Connor Anne Devlin 💍 1882/1948	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	24 17	Wanganui Wanganui	7 yrs. 7 yrs.	In the Roman Catholic Church, Devlin		08 July 1882	Rev. B.H. Kirk Roman Catholic
48	17 July 1882	Francis Richard Towithick Amanda Helena Remington	Francis Richard Trevithick Amanda Helene Rienenschneider 💍 1882/2046	Bachelor Spinster	Engineer	30 25	Wanganui Wanganui	3 days 16 yrs.	In the English Church	82/1263	17 July 1882	Rev. T.L. Tudor Church of England
49	19 July 1882	William James Dew Tuthinia Park	William James Dew Euphemia Clark 💍 1882/1858	Bachelor Widow	Farmer	31 33	Brunswick Line do.	6 yrs. 2 yrs.	In the Office of the Registrar	82/1964	19 July 1882	J.W. Woon Registrar
50	11 August 1882	Duncan Hopkins Evans Annie Davy	Duncan Hopkins Stevens Annie Davy 💍 1882/2053	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	27 19	Wanganui do	6 days 4 mo.	In the Church of England	82/1941	11 August 1882	Rev. E.C. Tudor Church of England
51	12 August 1882	George Benson Minnie Schultz	George Benson Minnie Schultz 💍 1882/1859	Bachelor Spinster	Baker	20 22	Wanganui do	7 yrs. 2 yrs.	In the Office of the Registrar	82/1945	12 August 1882	J.W. Woon Registrar
52	15 August 1882	James Lawler Mary Taylor	James Lawler Mary Taylor 💍 1882/1949 James Whitehead Maria Taylor 💍 1882/1363 Robert Bartlett Martin Mary Taylor 💍 1882/2781 Charles Crichton Mary Taylor 💍 1882/494	Bachelor Spinster	Joiner	21 23	Wanganui do	8 mos. 20 yrs.	In the Roman Catholic		15 August 1882	Rev. B.H. Kirk Roman Catholic
53	15 August 1882	William Edward Norris Janet Gray	William Edward Woods Janet Gray 💍 1882/2475	Bachelor Spinster	Chemist	26 22	Wanganui do	3 days 22 yrs.	In the residence of Frederick	82/2489	15 August 1882	Rev. Jas. Treadwell Presbyterian
54	16 August 1882	Samuel Farrel Mary Jane Holford	Samuel Carrel Mary Jane Woolford 💍 1882/2054	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	25 24	Wanganui do	5 yrs. 5 yrs.	In the Church of England	82/1265	16 August 1882	Rev. E.L. Tudor Church of England
55	22 August 1882	Jens Janson Annie Elizabeth Boney	Jens Jenson Annie Elizabeth Corney 💍 1882/1851	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith	21 23	Wanganui do	3 days 5 yrs.	In the residence of Spinster	82/1963	22 August 1882	Rev. W.J. Williams Wesleyan
56	26 August 1882	William Parreen Mary Wood Robertson	William Curreen Mary Wright Robertson 💍 1882/1860	Bachelor Spinster	Bootmaker	22 23	Wanganui do	2 yrs. 3 days	In the Office of the Registrar	82/1988	26 August 1882	J.W. Woon Registrar
57	31 August 1882	Joseph Shaw Kendrick Ellen Histed	Joseph Henry Kendrick Ellen Histed 💍 1882/1861	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	28 19	Otoi Wanganui	18 mos. 6 yrs.	Of Marriage, Wanganui	82/1946	02 September 1882	J.W. Woon Registrar

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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 1898. More registers will be added when the Archives NZ Wellington reading room re-opens in September 2025.

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).