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 1170

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
180	26 April 1892	William Dodge Tucker Mary Ann Johnson	William Hodge Tucker Mary Ann Tomlinson 💍 1892/943	Bachelor Widow	Clerk	34 42	Auckland Auckland	10 years 6 months	Registrars Office	92/1033	26 April 1892	J. Owen Lord, Regr
181	27 April 1892	William Campbell Margaret Februal	William Campbell Margaret Jerrat 💍 1892/3846	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	31 30	Manga Duncan	12 months 6 years	Church of St Andrew	92/1014	27 April 1892	Revd A. Carrier, Presbyterian
182	27 April 1892	Edward Harkins Louisa Harding	Edward Harkins Louisa Harding 💍 1892/898	Bachelor Widow	Tinsmith	21 38	Newton Newton	12 months 20 years	Dwelling of Revd J. Berry	92/962	27 April 1892	Revd J. Berry, Wesleyan
183	27 April 1892	Donald Jordan Mary Ann Ki Kina	Donald Gordon Mary Ann Ki Kira 💍 1892/944	Bachelor Spinster	Butcher	30 32	Richfield Poverty Bay	4 years 8 years	Registrars Office	92/1034	27 April 1892	J. Owen Lord, Regr
184	28 April 1892	Godfrey Francis Druce Ella Beatrice Cahoon	Godfrey Francis Druce Ella Beatrice Eaton 💍 1892/867	Bachelor Spinster	Sheepfarmer	23 22	Gisborne Auckland	3 years 2 years	Dwelling of Albert Edge	92/952	28 April 1892	Revd M. Lee, Wesleyan
185	28 April 1892	William Swan Johnson Annie Proctor	William Olsson Annie Proctor 💍 1892/945	Bachelor Spinster	Mariner	31 21	Auckland Auckland	7 years 2 years	Registrars Office	92/1035	28 April 1892	J. Owen Lord, Regr
186	29 April 1892	Armistead Hope Elizabeth Kennedy	John Armistead Elizabeth Kennedy 💍 1892/899	Widower Widow	Rope Maker	56 45	Ponsonby Mechanic's Bay	30 years 30 years	Dwelling of Revd J. Berry	92/963	29 April 1892	Revd J. Berry, Wesleyan
187	29 April 1892	William Pinder Taylor Mary Jane Taylor	William Pinder Mary Jane Taylor 💍 1892/1035	Widower Spinster	Moulder	32 25	Auckland Auckland	18 months 10 years	Dwelling of Samuel Taylor	92/1005	29 April 1892	Revd C. H. Laws, Wesleyan

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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).