Intentions to Marry, 1892

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840404, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, May 28 2025

Page 351

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 December 1892

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
528	28 December 1892	Thos. Reginald Stanley Midroy Julie Ruth Talbot Ives	Thomas Reginald Stanley Milroy Julie Ruth Talbot Ives 💍 1893/273	Bachelor Widow	Surveyor	34 37	Auckland Auckland	8 months 1 year	Church of Holy Sepulchre	93/865		28 December 1892	Rev. R. J. Dudley
529	28 December 1892	Wm. Chas. Richd. Cantell Mary Ellen Lorrigan	William Charles Richard Cantelin Mary Ellen Lorrigan 💍 1892/2761	Bachelor Spinster	Linesman	23 19	Hastings Auckland	7 months 19 months	Church of Holy Sepulchre	92/3008	Alicia Lorrigan, mother
530	28 December 1892	Charles Smith Florence Jane Goudie	Charles Smith Florence Jane Gent 💍 1892/2888	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	28 22	Auckland Auckland	6 months 8 months	Registrars Office	92/3134		28 December 1892	Reg. of Marriages
531	28 December 1892	William Hricatt Mary Caroline Gream	William Hieatt Mary Caroline Sisam 💍 1893/274	Bachelor Spinster	Settler	23 21	Swanson Waitakerei	7 months 20 months	Dwelling of Wm. Hricatt	93/866		28 December 1892	Ruth L. Thomas
532	28 December 1892	Augustin Taylor Harrison May Goodall	Augustus Taylor Harrison May Goodall 💍 1892/3680	Bachelor Spinster	School master	29 23	Auckland Auckland	18 months 2 years	Church of St. Paul	92/3922		28 December 1892	Reg. C. M. Nelson
533	29 December 1892	Wm. Henry Jones Emma Mary Herbert	William Henry Jones Emma Mary Herbert 💍 1893/278	Bachelor Spinster	Engine Driver	22 24	Richmond Road Eden Terrace	22 months 6 months	Dwelling of Richd. Herbert	93/869		29 December 1892	Rev. J. Guy
534	30 December 1892	William Stokes Solitsha Croke	William Stokes Elitiha Croke 💍 1892/2889	Bachelor Widow	Carpenter	34 32	Napier Remuera	9 months 4 months	Registrars Office	92/3135		30 December 1892	Reg. of Marriages

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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).