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 422

District of Wellington 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
115	03 June 1882	Walter Still Charlotte Webb	Walter Hill Charlotte Webb 💍 1882/1154	Bachelor Spinster	Brickmaker	21 26	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office	82/1125	John Webb, Father	03 June 1882	J. G. Holdsworth
116	05 June 1882	William Neazer Norah O'Connell	William Neazer Norah O'Connell 💍 1882/1157	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	23 25	Upper Hutt Lower Hutt		Roman Catholic Church, Lower Hutt	82/1127		05 June 1882	Rev. John Lampila
117	05 June 1882	Albert Frederick Riggo Kate Rebecca Rumins	Albert Frederick Riggs Kate Rebecca Burniston 💍 1882/1270	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	20 21	Wellington Wellington		Mr. Riggo's House, College Street	82/1106	Andrew Cooper Riggo, Father	05 June 1882	Rev. Rainsford Bavin
118	06 June 1882	Alexander Stuart Euphemia Harley Calmant	Alexander Stuart Ewan Euphemia Harley Calman 💍 1882/3563	Bachelor Spinster	Carterman	27 22	Westport Westport	1 month 4 years	The Presbyterian Church, Westport			06 June 1882	Rev. P. R. Munro
119	07 June 1882	Henry Cobristian Lawson Elizabeth Hulett	Henry Christian Lawson Elizabeth Hulett 💍 1882/1149	Bachelor Spinster	Cook	24 26	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt		Registrar's Office	82/1120		07 June 1882	J. G. Holdsworth
120	09 June 1882	Walter England Emma Jane Burgess		Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	22 27	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt		St. James' Church, Lower Hutt			09 June 1882	Rev. S. Fancant
121	14 June 1882	David Brooker Eliza Kennedy	David Brooker Eliza Kennedy 💍 1882/1150	Bachelor Spinster	Steward	23 22	Wellington Wellington	4 weeks 4 years	Registrar's Office	82/1121		14 June 1882	J. G. Holdsworth
122	14 June 1882	William Alfred Childs Kate Hagen	William Alfred Chute Kate Hagan 💍 1882/1151	Bachelor Spinster	Bricklayer	21 21	Wellington Wellington		Registrar's Office	82/1122		14 June 1882	J. G. Holdsworth
123	15 June 1882	Henry James McChund Emma Jane Kemp	Henry James McClure Emma Jane Kemp 💍 1882/1569	Bachelor Spinster	School Teacher	24 25	Wellington Wellington	3 days 4 years	Mr. Kemp's House, Ingestre Street	82/1123		15 June 1882	Rev. W. H. West
124	20 June 1882	John Bertie Mary Ann Hubner	John Bertie Mary Ann Hubner 💍 1882/1152	Widower Widow	Hotel Keeper	38 36	Wellington Wellington	8 days 3 weeks	Registrar's Office	82/2019		20 June 1882	Venble. Archdeacon Stock
125	20 June 1882	Herbert Josiah Claridge Emma Thani Estall	Herbert Josiah Claridge Emma Thain Estall 💍 1882/1985	Bachelor Spinster	Compositor	25 19	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	St. Peter's Church			20 June 1882	Rev. John Lampila
126	20 June 1882	Daniel Connelly Margaret O'Callaghan	Daniel Conelly Margaret O'Callaghan 💍 1882/1158	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	25 22	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt	1 year 1 month	Roman Catholic Church, Lower Hutt	82/1128		20 June 1882	Rev. John Lampila

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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).