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

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District of Waipawa 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
446	4 January 1892	Thomas Roe Elizabeth Stratfallan Wilson	Thomas Roe Elizabeth Strathallan Wilson 💍 1892/469	Bachelor Spinster	Driver	25 27	Te Ante Te Ante	4 days 3 weeks	Residence of Mr. Wilson, Te Ante	92/438		1892	Rev. S. Gongeons, M.A.
447	7 January 1892	George Frederick Green Katherine Campbell	George Fredrick Green Katharine Campbell 💍 1892/467	Bachelor Spinster	Driver Housemaid	30 26	Waipawa Waipawa	3 days 3 days	St. Patricks Church	92/436		1892	Rev. T. G. Dawson
448	15 January 1892	George Summersby Annie Wood	George Summersby Annie Wood 💍 1892/470	Bachelor Spinster	Bushman	21 17	Hampden Hampden	15 years 17 years	Office of the Registrar, Waipawa	92/439	Arthur John Wood, Father	1892	Samuel Johnson, Registrar
449	9 February 1892	Joseph Griffith Frances Maria Gorton	Joseph Griffith Francis Marie Croxton 💍 1892/466	Bachelor Spinster	Horse Trainer Dress Maker	23 25	Waipawa Waipawa	2 years 25 years	St. Peters Church	92/435		1892	Rev. J. C. Eccles
450	22 February 1892	Joseph Cook Jemima Boult	Joseph Cook Jemima Boult 💍 1892/471	Bachelor Spinster	Shepherd	27 17	Blackburn Blackburn	3 years 4 years	Office of Registrar, Waipawa	92/440	James Boult, Father	1892	Samuel Johnson, Registrar
451	22 February 1892	Robert Hugh Murray McPhail Fanny Andrews	Robert Hugh Murray McPhail Fanny Andrew 💍 1892/468	Bachelor Widow	Station Manager	28 26	Waipawa Hampden	3 days 26 years	Residence of Mr. Mathews, Hampden	92/437		1892	Rev. A. Grant
452	23 February 1892	Joseph Henry Ernest Jarvis Fanny Millett Millett	Joseph Henry Ernest Jarvis Fanny Millett Millett 💍 1892/465	Widower Spinster	Medical Practitioner	30 29	Napier Te Ante	2 years 16 days	Church of England, Napier	92/434		1892	Rev. A. F. Williams
453	26 February 1892	Ernest William Campbell Louisa Sabel Wilkinson	Ernest William Campbell-Wilkinson Louisa Sabel 💍 1892/472	Bachelor Spinster	Surgeon	36 32	Waipawa Waipawa	7 days 3 months	Office of the Registrar, Waipawa	92/441		1892	Samuel Johnson, Registrar
454	16 March 1892	Charlie Farr Edwards Rachel Jane McEven	Charlie Farr Edward Rachel Jane McEwen 💍 1892/4034	Bachelor Spinster	Storeman	31 21	Waipawa Waipawa	6 months 10 days	United Methodist Free Church, Waipawa	92/448		1892	Rev. J. W. Griffin
455	28 March 1892	Arthur Lovejoy Maralear Inia	Arthur Lovejoy Maraea Imoi 💍 1892/474	Bachelor Widow	Trainer	29 38	Waipawa Waipawa	6 months 6 months	Office of the Registrar, Waipawa	92/442		1892	Samuel Johnson, Registrar

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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).