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

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District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1890 Registrar William Thomas Wyatt

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
342	23 December 1890	Charles Jacob Annie Waller	Charles Jacob Annie Slade 💍 1891/3149	Widower Spinster	Shoemaker	41 27	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	House of Mrs. Taylor, Cambridge Terrace	90/352		23 December 1890	Rev. Joseph Berry
343	23 December 1890	Peter James Mack Lily Griffin	Peter James Mask Lilly Griffin 💍 1891/3053	Bachelor Spinster	Tanner	26 24	Palmerston Wellington	4 years 4 years	St. Peter's Church	90/3114		23 December 1890	Very Rev. Father Sauvin
344	24 December 1890	Michael McGrath Bridget McMahon	Michael McGrath Bridget O'Mahoney 💍 1891/3054	Bachelor Spinster	Bootmaker	29 25	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	St. Mary's Cathedral	90/315		24 December 1890	Very Rev. Father Sauvin
345	24 December 1890	Harry Perrett Elizabeth Partridge	Harry Perrett Isabella Betsy Pailthorpe 💍 1890/1313	Bachelor Spinster	Tailor	22 17	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	90/3215		24 December 1890	W. T. Wyatt
346	24 December 1890	Joseph Francis Mary Anne Terry	Joseph Francis Mary Anne Terry 💍 1890/3027	Widower Widow	Cutler	44 44	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	House of Mrs. Abraham, Cuba Street	90/3185		24 December 1890	Rev. J. Penberth
347	29 December 1890	Albert Thomas Hancock Mildred Mary Johnson	Albert Thomas Hancock Mildred Mary Johnson 💍 1890/3018	Bachelor Spinster	Saddler	25 21	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	St. Peter's Church	90/3176		29 December 1890	Rev. W. C. Waters
348	29 December 1890	Thomas Evans Frances Croucher	Donald Fraser Frances Croucher 💍 1890/1314	Bachelor Spinster	Mariner	26 21	Wellington Wellington	4 months 4 months	Registrar's Office, Wellington	90/3216		29 December 1890	W. T. Wyatt
349	29 December 1890	George Frederick Green Annie Caroline Price	George Frederick Jordan Annie Caroline Krieg 💍 1890/1315	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	21 23	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	90/3217		29 December 1890	W. T. Wyatt
350	29 December 1890	Alfred John Petherick Ada Louisa Hargreaves	Alfred John Petherick Ada Louise Hargreaves 💍 1891/3150	Bachelor Spinster	Clicker	23 23	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Baptist Church, Vivian Street	90/361		29 December 1890	Rev. H. H. Driver
351	29 December 1890	Arthur Leopold Jordan Lillian Edith Fletcher	Arthur Leopold Bathurst Jordan Lillian Edith Slatter 💍 1890/3015	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	21 22	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Wesley Church, Taranaki Street	90/3173		29 December 1890	Rev. Joseph Berry
352	30 December 1890	David Cameron Sweeten Lucy Nixon	David Edmund Wilton Lucy Nixon 💍 1890/1317	Bachelor Spinster	Bootmaker	29 22	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	90/3219		30 December 1890	W. T. Wyatt
353	30 December 1890	William Pitcher Emily Ellen Swain	William Pilcher Emily Ellen Swain 💍 1890/3026	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	24 19	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt	4 years 4 years	House of Mr. Pitcher, Lower Hutt	90/3184	Henry Swain, father	30 December 1890	Rev. J. W. Hope
354	30 December 1890	Henry Welbourne Mary Elizabeth Cloud	Henry Welbourne Mary Elizabeth Clout 💍 1891/53	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	22 21	Ngahauranga Waiwetu	2 months 4 years	Wesleyan Church, Lower Hutt	90/347		30 December 1890	Rev. W. G. Walkin
355	30 December 1890	Walter Robert Hare Amelia Ann Smith	Walter Robert Hare Amelia Ann Smith 💍 1890/3023	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	26 21	Wellington Wellington	4 years 4 years	House of Mr. Smith, Cuba Street	90/3180		30 December 1890	Rev. J. K. Elliott
356	31 December 1890	Octavius Olive Harriet Ann Ansley	Octavius Olive Harriet Anne Maslen 💍 1890/1295	Bachelor Spinster	Private, Engineer Corps	20 21	Shelley Bay Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	90/3221		31 December 1890	W. T. Wyatt

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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 1899. 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).