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 529

District of Temuka Quarter ending 30 September 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
15	5 July 1892	Charles Rohnson Esther Fandray	Charles Robinson Esther Fawdray 💍 1892/3030	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	26 23	Temuka Temuka	19 years 17 years	Residence of Wm Fandray	92/2632		5 July 1892	Rev Wm Woollass, Primitive Methodist
16	28 July 1892	William Thomas Turner Eliza Gibbs	William Thomas Turner Eliza Gibbs 💍 1892/3032 William George Signal Emily Gibbs 💍 1892/2665	Bachelor Spinster	Tobacconist	27 23	Temuka Temuka	3 days 3 years	Wesleyan Church	92/2634		28 July 1892	Rev J Dellow, Wesleyan
17	28 July 1892	Andrew Carroll Watson Agnes McCraig Baillie	Andrew Caroll Watson Agnes McCaig Baillie 💍 1892/3034	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith	28 17	Winchester Winchester	1 year 5 years	Presbyterian Church	92/2636	Adam Mc Baillie (Father)	28 July 1892	Rev John Dickson, Presbyterian
18	1 August 1892	Donald Sutherland Norah Jane Brogden	Donald Sutherland Norah Jane Brogden 💍 1892/3031	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	25 19	Temuka Temuka	12 years 8 years	Residence of Wm Brogden, Temuka	92/2633	Wm Brogden (Father)	1 August 1892	Rev Wm Woollass, Primitive Methodist
19	15 August 1892	Edmund Crow Alice Maud Mary Cross	Edmund Crow Alice Maude Mary Moss 💍 1892/3033	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	21 19	Temuka Temuka	2 years 2 years	Wesleyan Parsonage	92/2635		15 August 1892	Rev J Dellow, Wesleyan
20	15 August 1892	Harry Brogden Mary Ann Robinson	Harry Brogden Mary Ann Robinson 💍 1892/3028	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	30 24	Temuka Temuka	10 years 10 years	Residence of Henry Robinson, Temuka	92/2631		15 August 1892	Rev Wm Woollass, Primitive Methodist
21	12 September 1892	Arthur Savin Logie Jane Ackroyd	Arthur Irwin Logan Jane Ackroyd 💍 1892/3035	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	32 20	Temuka Temuka	3 days 20 years	Presbyterian Manse	92/2637	John Edward Ackroyd (Father)	12 September 1892	Rev John Dickson, Presbyterian
22	30 September 1892	Pryce Goodinn Jessie Stewart	Pryce Goodwin Jessie Stewart 💍 1892/3949	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	30 30	Orari Orari	4 days 1 year		92/3687		30 September 1892	Rev John Dickson, 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).