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 1162

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 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	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
244	13 June 1892	George Edward Partridge Jessie Helen Connor	George Edward Partridge Jessie McLean Connar 💍 1892/863	Bachelor Spinster	Saw Miller	28 25	Port Albert Parnell	2 years 8 years	Dwelling of Mrs. Partridge, Parnell	92/949	13 June 1892	Rev. J. Suy, Primitive Methodist
245	13 June 1892	Owen Flynn Norah Synott	Owen Glynn Norah Lynch 💍 1892/3945	Bachelor Spinster	Factory Hand	25 22	Otahuhu Otahuhu	18 years 6 years	The Roman Catholic Church, Otahuhu	92/976	13 June 1892	Rev. M. D. O'Hara, R. Catholic
246	13 June 1892	Matthew Moore Eliza Aldridge	Matthew Moore Eliza Aldridge 💍 1892/1033	Bachelor Widow	Farmer	60 59	Kyber Pass Kyber Pass	29 years 3 months	Church of the Holy Sepulchre	92/1003	13 June 1892	Rev. B. T. Dudley, Ch. of England
247	13 June 1892	George Campbell Munko Jane Wright Faith	George Campbell Munro Jane Wright Tait 💍 1892/86	Bachelor Spinster	Ranch Overseer	26 31	Ranae Parnell	15 months 20 years	Dwelling of Alexander Faith, Parnell	92/1016	13 June 1892	Rev. A. Carrick, Presbyterian
248	14 June 1892	Francis Henry Roane Ettie Lorigan	Francis Henry Sloane Ettie Lorigan 💍 1892/73	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	26 23	Ruakaka Ponsonby	26 years 3 weeks	Church of St. Benedict	92/1025	14 June 1892	Rev. J. C. Downey, R. Catholic
249	15 June 1892	David Joseph Reidy May Lucy McKenzie	David Joseph Reidy May Lucy McKenzie 💍 1892/81	Bachelor Spinster	Mounted Police	36 20	Auckland Parnell	15 years 3 months	Church of St. Patrick, Parnell	92/1009	15 June 1892	Rev. J. M. Lenihan, R. Catholic
250	15 June 1892	Alexander Freeman Harriet Lydia Charles	Alexander Freeman Harriet Lydia Clarke 💍 1892/84	Bachelor Spinster	Driver	24 25	Eden Terrace Auckland	1 year 14 years	Dwelling of the Rev. Mr. Freeman, Eden Terrace	92/1012	15 June 1892	Rev. J. D. Cox, Baptist
251	15 June 1892	Patrick Cuthbert Lynch Eliza Jenkinson	Patrick Cuthbert Lynch Eliza Jenkinson 💍 1892/80	Bachelor Spinster	Pattern Maker	24 23	Newmarket Park Road	8 years 3 years	The Baptist Church, Park Road	92/1008	15 June 1892	Rev. J. M. Lenihan, R. Catholic

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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).