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

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District of Rangitikei Quarter ending 30 June 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	Consent	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
9	15 April 1882	Walter Tricker Elizabeth Marshall	Walter Tricker Elizabeth Marshall 💍 1882/1060 Robert Baird Elizabeth Marshall 💍 1883/541	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	23 18	Bulls Bulls	12 years 4 years	The English Church, Bulls	82/1057	Person residing in England having authority to give consent	29 April 1882	Rev. Wm. Ballachy
10	18 April 1882	David Meads Bertha Matilda Krüger	David Meads Bertha Matilda Kreger 💍 1882/3612	Bachelor Widow	Farmer	29 33	Parakaretu Parakaretu	3 weeks 3 years	The house of Mrs Krüger, Parakaretu	82/1060		18 April 1882	Rev. H. W. Stewart
11	18 April 1882	James Alexander Bailey Frances Cameron	James Alexander Bailey Frances Cameron 💍 1882/1498	Widower Spinster	Farmer	43 21	Sandon Bulls	10 years 5 -	The house of Filding, Stephen Cameron, Bulls	82/1065		18 April 1882	Rev. J. Doull
12	26 April 1882	Charles Henry Pemberton Lora Ulmon Jentenbach	Charles Harry Pemberton Lora Elenora Tentenbach 💍 1882/1496	Bachelor Spinster	Cook	31 18	Marton Marton	7 months 7 months	The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Marton	82/1063	Julius Kormack, step father	26 April 1882	J. M. Deighton, Registrar of Marriages, Marton
13	08 May 1882	James McKenzie Angelina Peachey	James McKenzie Angelina Peachy 💍 1882/1062 James McKenzie Ann Brough 💍 1882/1135 James McKenzie Mary Elinor Josephine Martin 💍 1882/2164	Bachelor Spinster	Bootmaker	40 16	Turakina Turakina	4 days 4 years	The house of Mr John Spencer, Peachey, Turakina	82/1056	John Spencer, father	08 May 1882	Rev. John Ross
14	22 May 1882	William George Ewens Fredrica Louisa Friedrich	William George Omens Fredrica Louisa Fridrick 💍 1882/1495	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	27 20	Pukepapa Pukepapa	15 years 19 years	The house of Mr August Friedrich, Pukepapa	82/1062	August Friedrich, father	22 May 1882	Rev. H. W. Stewart
15	30 May 1882	William Nathaniel Bartlett Mary Derbyshire	William Nathaniel Bartlett Mary Darbyshire 💍 1882/1056	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	25 26	Upper Sulieme Maxwelltown	25 years 12 years	The English Church, Nangauni	82/1051		30 May 1882	Rev. J. L. Tudor
16	31 May 1882	Robert Marsh Francis Ann Gower	Robert Marsh Frances Ann Gower 💍 1882/1476	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	21 18	Bonny Glen Bonny Glen	2 weeks 1 week	The house of Mrs Gower, Bonny Glen	82/1054	John Gower, father	31 May 1882	Rev. Thomas Liddler

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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).