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 1547

District of Auckland 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
25	4 January 1892	Albert Cash Charlotte Sarah Cox	Albert Cash Charlotte Sarah Cox 💍 1892/195	Bachelor Spinster	Mariner	21 16	Auckland Auckland	14 years 16 years	Registrar's Office	92/128	Sarah Cox, Mother	7 January 1892	J. Owen Lord, Registrar
26	14 January 1892	Isaac Bollinger Margaret Isabella Sprott	Max Bollinger Margaret Isabella Sproule 💍 1892/194	Widower Divorced	Farmer	44 35	Omah Wellington	4 years 4 years	Registrar's Office	92/127		7 January 1892	J. Owen Lord, Registrar
27	15 January 1892	Joseph Burton Sarah Holdsworth		Widower Spinster	Sewer Scavenger	44 27	Panmure Auckland	5 years 27 years	Dwelling of William Holdsworth, Victoria St	92/54		15 January 1892	Revd. J. Serpell, Wesleyan
28	15 January 1892	Ferdinand Carl Borgolte Frieda Henriette Hansch	Ferdinand Carl Borgolte Frieta Henrietta Hansch 💍 1892/358	Bachelor Spinster	Grocer	22 22	Panmure Panmure	8 months 9 months	Church of England, St Johns	92/114		15 January 1892	Revd W. Calder, Church of England
29	16 January 1892	Thomas Norman Louisa Brown	Thomas Norman Gorman Louisa Brown 💍 1892/196	Bachelor Spinster	Mariner	34 24	Naissa North Auckland	2 years 8 months	Registrar's Office	92/129		16 January 1892	J. Owen Lord, Registrar
30	16 January 1892	George Edmund Spence Jessie Seager	George Edmond Nimrod Spence Jessie Seagar 💍 1892/197	Bachelor Spinster	Other	28 20	Matakana Auckland	4 years 10 years	Registrar's Office	92/130	William Seager, Father	16 January 1892	J. Owen Lord, Registrar
31	18 January 1892	Richard Riding Amy Ripley	Richard Ridings Dowden Amy Ripley 💍 1892/353	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	23 26	Auckland Auckland	23 years 26 years	Dwelling of Mr. Ripley	92/107		18 January 1892	Revd. F. Lewis, Congregational Independent
32	18 January 1892	James Cuthbertson Elizabeth Mary Entrican	James Cuthbertson Entrican Elizabeth Mary McPherson 💍 1892/372 James Christie Elizabeth Mary Mardling 💍 1892/3896 James Edwards Elizabeth Mary Inskip 💍 1892/2879	Bachelor Spinster	Grocer	27 25	Auckland Auckland	6 years 25 years	Dwelling of Daniel Macpherson	92/104		18 January 1892	Revd. R. F. Macnicol, 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).