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 1546

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
33	19 January 1892	Arthur Coghlan Laura Harvey	Arthur Coghlan Laura Harvey 💍 1892/134	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer Spinster	24 21	Penrose Penrose	4 years 10 years	Dwelling of James Wallace	92/48		19 January 1892	Revd. J. Steele Presbyterian
34	20 January 1892	William Arthur Bullock Alice Mary Booness	William Arthur Eustace Alice Mary Boone 💍 1892/180	Bachelor Spinster	Butcher Spinster	30 26	Auckland Kyber Pass	30 years 20 years	Church of the Holy Sepulchre	92/78		20 January 1892	Revd. B. J. Dudley Ch of England
35	20 January 1892	Herbert Percy Barry Lellie Lofthouse	Hubert Percy Barry Pollie Lofthouse 💍 1892/132	Bachelor Spinster	Accountant Spinster	33 33	Waihi Stafford St Auckland	5 years 15 years	St Thomas Church of St Paul	92/45		20 January 1892	Revd. C. M. Nelson Ch of England
36	20 January 1892	John Evans Christina McKenzie	John Evans Christina McKenzie 💍 1892/162 John Albert Turner Christina McKenzie 💍 1892/3726	Widower Spinster	Book keeper Spinster	48 30	Wanganui Eden Terrace	5 years 3 years	Dwelling of Robert Roberts	92/58		20 January 1892	Revd. R. Rishworth Congregationalist
37	20 January 1892	John Janson Isabella Rogers	John Janson Isabella Rogers 💍 1892/198	Bachelor Widow	Farmer Widow	41 30	North Shore Ponsonby	7 years 11 years	Registrars Office	92/131		20 January 1892	J. Owen Lord Regr
38	20 January 1892	Walter Griffith Una Gribble	Walter Griffith Anna Gribble 💍 1892/158	Widower Spinster	Farmer Spinster	34 23	Rewi St Ponsonby Auckland	5 years 5 years	Wesleyan Church	92/52		20 January 1892	Revd. C. Griffith Wesleyan
39	20 January 1892	Henry James Cooper Henriette Carsky	Henry James Cooper Henrietta Sarah Waite 💍 1892/2623	Bachelor Spinster	Tinsmith Spinster	22 21	Auckland Mt Eden	9 years 12 years	Church of St Barnabas	92/2847		20 January 1892	Revd. J. Haselden Ch of England
40	21 January 1892	Arthur Haskins Edwards Kathleen Agnes Johnston	Arthur Laskie Edwards Kathleen Agnes Johnston 💍 1892/182	Bachelor Spinster	Merchant Spinster	28 19	Park Road Parnell	5 years 10 years	Church of the Holy Sepulchre	92/80	William Johnston father	21 January 1892	Revd. B. J. Dudley Ch of England

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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).