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 1451

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 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
76	21 March 1892	John Dickie Mary Elizabeth Johnson	John Dickie Mary Elizabeth Johnson 💍 1892/384	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	22 22	Wellington Wellington	years years	St Marks Church	92/328		21 March 1892	Rev. R. Coffey
77	21 March 1892	Walter Alexander Rixon Madge Beatrice Styles	Walter Alexander Ritson Madge Beatrice Styles 💍 1892/416	Bachelor Spinster	Cabman	23 25	Wellington Wellington	years years	Home of Mr Roberts, South Ovens	92/359		21 March 1892	Rev. J. F. Lewis
78	21 March 1892	Coleman Phillips Rachel Joseph	Coleman Phillips Rachel Joseph 💍 1892/409	Bachelor Spinster	Sheep Farmer	45 23	Wellington Wellington	3 days years	House of Mr Jacob Joseph, Hobson Street	92/353	No Relation in Colony	21 March 1892	Revd. H. Sam Taverner
79	22 March 1892	John Patrick Coakley Clara Kate Hayes	John Patrick Coakley Clara Kate Hayes 💍 1892/3914	Bachelor Spinster	Expressman	23 20	Wellington Wellington	years years	Registrars Office, Wellington	92/1296		5 April 1892	Mr. L. Wyatt
80	22 March 1892	Charles Albert Jacobson Agnes Greer	Charles Albert Jacobson Agnes Greer 💍 1892/1200	Bachelor Spinster	Range Fitter	23 21	Wellington Wellington	years years	St Pauls Cathedral	92/250		22 March 1892	Revd. J. H. Sprott
81	23 March 1892	William George Farr Martha Frances Jefferies	William George Tarr Martha Frances Jeffares 💍 1892/25	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	25 20	Wellington Wellington	years years	House of Mr J. B. Farr, Karori	92/373	About Jefferies Father	23 March 1892	Revd. W. Powell
82	23 March 1892	Richard Hector Catherine McKenzie	Richard Hecker Catherine McKenzie 💍 1892/35	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	42 22	Wellington Wellington	years 6 months	Registrars Office, Wellington	92/383		23 March 1892	Mr. L. Wyatt
83	24 March 1892	Alfred George Pleasant Esther Ann Bennett	Alfred George Pleasant Esther Ann Bennett 💍 1892/452	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	21 23	Wellington Wellington	4 days 6 weeks	Registrars Office, Wellington	92/402		24 March 1892	Mr. L. Wyatt
84	24 March 1892	Stephen Shand Ida Mary Stuart Muirhead	Stephen Strand Ida May Stuart Muirhead 💍 1892/3928	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	24 23	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt	years months	House of Mr Early, Tiny Street	92/1268		24 March 1892	Revd. Robert Raine
85	24 March 1892	Bertram Bowen Allan Frances Eleanor Booth	Bertram Bowen Allen Frances Eleanor Booth 💍 1892/395	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	29 25	Wellington Otaki	years 1 month	Episcopalian Church, Otaki	92/315		24 March 1892	Revd. J. A. McWilliam
86	24 March 1892	Edward Bull Eliza Smith	Edward Bull Eliza Smith 💍 1892/95	Bachelor Spinster	Compositor	41 23	Wellington Wellington	4 weeks years	Registrars Office, Wellington	92/1299		24 March 1892	Mr. L. Wyatt
87	25 March 1892	Frederick Veitch Caroline Ann Page	Frederick Neil McVicar Caroline Ann Page 💍 1892/3929	Bachelor Spinster	Boiler Maker	24 24	Wellington Wellington	years years	Wesley Church, Taranaki Street	92/1279		25 March 1892	Revd. J. J. Lewis
88	29 March 1892	Harold Cooper Moseley Alice Maud Acton	Harold Cooper Moseley Alice Maud Acton 💍 1892/455	Bachelor Spinster	Mariner	25 26	Wellington Wellington	years 1 year	Registrars Office, Wellington	92/403		29 March 1892	Mr. L. Wyatt
89	29 March 1892	William Loveridge Grace Ann Young	William Moncrieff Grace Anne Young 💍 1892/1093	Bachelor Spinster	Storeman	34 24	Wellington Wellington	years years	St Johns Church, Dixon Street	92/222		29 March 1892	Revd. J. Paterson
90	30 March 1892	William Alfred Price Mary Jane Wyatt	William Alfred Price Mary Jane Wyatt 💍 1892/397	Bachelor Spinster	Carter	23 26	Ngahauranga Kaiwarra	years years	Presbyterian Church, Petone	92/317		30 March 1892	Revd. A. Thomson

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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).