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 1166

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	Consent	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
212	16 May 1892	Patrick Pittegrew Agnes Moodie	Patrick Petley Agnes Woods 💍 1892/929	Bachelor Spinster	Foreman	23 24	Ponsonby Auckland	23 years 24 years	Registrars Office	92/1043		16 May 1892	J. Owen Lord, Regr
213	16 May 1892	George Holmes Muir Susannah Marshall		Widower Spinster	Farm Digger	50 21	Taupaki Taupaki	3 years 3 years	Registrars Office	92/1044		16 May 1892	J. Owen Lord, Regr
214	16 May 1892	William Alfred Cooper Jemima Chellaney	William Alfred Cooper Emma Skelton 💍 1892/883	Bachelor Spinster	Shipwright	32 24	Ponsonby Ponsonby	32 years 24 years	Church of All Saints	92/969		16 May 1892	Revd M. Calder, Ch of England
215	18 May 1892	James Wilson Wiseman Leonice Eliza Martin	James Wilson Wiseman Leonise Eliza Martin 💍 1892/900	Bachelor Spinster	Saddler	28 27	Auckland Auckland	28 years 27 years	Dwelling of Phillippe Martin	92/964		18 May 1892	Revd J. Berry, Wesleyan
216	19 May 1892	Thomas Mack Augusta Annie McLuoid	Thomas Mack Augusta Annie McQuoid 💍 1892/890	Bachelor Spinster	Butcher	21 19	Onehunga Onehunga	9 months 19 years	Dwelling of Augusta McLuoid	92/977	Mrs McLuoid, mother	19 May 1892	Revd P. E. Mulgan, Ch of England
217	19 May 1892	John Pope Tuecke Daisy Ellen Bucknall Tomlinson	John Pye Daisy Ellen Burnett Tomlinson 💍 1892/895	Bachelor Spinster	Plumber	22 17	Auckland Auckland	22 years 5 months	Tuecke	92/959	Maryann Jefferez, mother	20 May 1892	Revd C. F. Macnicoll, Presbyterian
218	20 May 1892	Charles Moore Priscilla Anne Warren	Charles Moore Pricilla Anne Warren 💍 1892/1032	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	58 37	Raglan Auckland	20 years 7 years	Church of St Sepulchre	92/1002		20 May 1892	Revd B. J. Dudley, Ch of England
219	20 May 1892	Walter Edwin Burrow Sarah Margaret Taylor	Walter Edwin Burrow Sarah Margarita Taylor 💍 1892/3847	Bachelor Spinster	Cabinet maker	22 23	Parnell Parnell	12 years 18 years	Dwelling of Samuel Taylor	92/1015		20 May 1892	Revd A. Carrick, Presbyterian

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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).