Intentions to Marry, 1890

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840402, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, May 23 2025

Page 843

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 September 1880

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
338	27 August 1880	Richard [illegible] Helena Mary Augusta Buckley	Richard Brabazon Morris Helena Mary Augusta Buckley 💍 1890/2325	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	30 23	Parnell Auckland	1 year 23 years	Dwelling of Revd. Parnell	90/1999		27 August 1880	Revd. M. McDonald Roman Catholic
339	27 August 1880	Thomas William [illegible] Hannah Elizabeth Jane Buckspin		Bachelor Spinster	Bricklayer	25 19	Whangarei Eden Terrace	14 days 10 years	Dwelling of Francis [illegible]	90/2009		10 September 1880	Revd. E. C. Terry United Methodist
340	27 August 1880	Alfred Webb Violet Fielding	Alfred Webb Violet Guilding 💍 1890/2174	Widower Spinster	Painter	32 30	Mt. Eden Mt. Eden	8 years 7 years	Wakefield St. Registrar's Office	90/2012		27 August 1880	Revd. A. J. Smith Primitive Methodist
341	28 August 1880	William Thomas Bell Alice Jane Wilson	William Thomas Alderton Sarah Jane Wilson 💍 1890/2229	Bachelor Spinster	Plumber	26 20	Parnell Parnell	26 years 1 year	Registrar's Office	90/2049	James Wilson, Father	28 August 1880	J. Owen Lord Registrar
342	29 August 1880	John Adolph William Feilow Julie Jane McKenna	John Adolph William Geilon Julia Jane McKenna 💍 1890/2231	Bachelor Spinster	Sailor	34 21	Taupaki Auckland	18 years 2 years	Registrar's Office	90/2050		29 August 1880	J. Owen Lord Registrar
343	20 August 1880	Thomas Charlton Mabel Evenson Kissling	Thomas Charter Mabel Evansen Kissling 💍 1890/2179	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	28 21	Auckland Mt. Eden	10 years 18 years	Church of St. Sepulchre	90/2017		20 August 1880	Revd. B. S. Dudley Church of England
344	30 August 1880	George Austin Barker Eliza Jane Rogers	George Austin Barker Eliza Jane Rogers 💍 1890/2232	Bachelor Spinster	Fellmonger	21 18	Auckland Auckland	21 years 8 years	Registrar's Office	90/2051	Henry Rogers, Father	30 August 1880	J. Owen Lord 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 1894. More registers will be added as the project continues.

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).