Intentions to Marry, 1895 July-December

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840408, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, June 11 2025

1895 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 668

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1895

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
389	14 December 1895	Henry James Day Mabel James	Henry James Day Mabel James 💍 1895/1937	Bachelor Spinster	Bookmaker	20 20	Wellington Wellington	years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	95/3380	Charles Day, father	14 December 1895	M. D. Wyatt
390	16 December 1895	Harold Herbert Partington Esther Ann Trevor	Harold Herbert Partington Esther Ann Treon 💍 1895/1957	Bachelor Spinster	Expressman	22 27	Wellington Wellington	years	House of Ann Trevor, Courtenay Place	95/3404		16 December 1895	Rev. H. B. Redstone
391	16 December 1895	James George Stevens Margaret Murdoch Lyall	James George Stevens Margaret Mardoch Leslie 💍 1895/1955	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	38 27	Wellington Wellington	1 year 18 months	St. John's Church, Woolcombe Street	95/3402		16 December 1895	Rev. J. Paterson
392	16 December 1895	Harry Charles Edward Clapcott Eliza Minnie Bright	Henry Charles Edward Clapcott Eliza Minnie Bright 💍 1895/2613	Bachelor Spinster	Engineer	31 26	Wellington Wellington	years	St. Paul's Cathedral	95/3903		16 December 1895	Rev. J. H. Sprott
393	16 December 1895	Walter Roberts Elizabeth Bradley	Walter Roberts Elizabeth Bradley 💍 1895/1924	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	25 17	Wellington Wellington	years	Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace	95/3392	George Bradley, father	16 December 1895	Rev. J. K. Elliott
394	16 December 1895	Walter Herbert Knapp Ellen Maria Jones	Walter Herbert Knapp Ellen Marion Jones 💍 1895/1972	Bachelor Spinster	Compositor	21 18	Wellington Wellington	years	House of Rev. J. R. Glasson, Wellington Terrace	95/3422	Thomas Jones, father	16 December 1895	Rev. J. R. Glasson
395	17 December 1895	Donald George Clark Jessie Nairn	Donald George Clark Jessie Nairn 💍 1895/2628	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	27 25	Khandallah Khandallah	years	House of J. Nairn, Khandallah	95/4408		17 December 1895	Rev. H. B. Burnell
396	17 December 1895	Samuel Vogel Adam Florence Thacker	Samuel Vogel Mason Florence Edith Thacker 💍 1895/1947	Bachelor Spinster	Storeman	19 18	Wellington Wellington	years	Primitive Methodist Church, Vivian Street	95/3415	Samuel Adam, father; William Thacker, father	17 December 1895	Rev. James Guy
397	18 December 1895	Francis William Wickens Florence Isabella Balcan	Frederick William Wickens Florence Isabella Balchim 💍 1895/1987	Bachelor Spinster	Picture Framer	23 20	Wellington Wellington	years	House of Rebecca Pegan, Tonks Grove	95/3456	Rebecca Pegan, mother	18 December 1895	Rev. C. D. Dallaston
398	19 December 1895	Charles William Goode Catherine Alice Thomblin	Charles William Gustav Wulff Catherine Alice Thornhill 💍 1895/1951 Charles William Ninkey Catherine Newcome 💍 1896/4662	Bachelor Spinster	Draughtsman	20 28	Wellington Wellington	1 year 14 days	St. Peter's Church	95/3418		19 December 1895	Rev. W. C. Waters
399	19 December 1895	James Ross Sarah Burteinshaw	James Ross Sarah Barkinshaw 💍 1895/1954	Bachelor Widow	Blacksmith	37 38	Wellington Wellington	7 months years	St. John's Church, Woolcombe Street	95/3401		19 December 1895	Rev. J. Paterson
400	19 December 1895	John Frederick Rowlatt Annie Covest	John Frederick Kerslake Annie Crovest 💍 1895/1943	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	25 24	Petone Petone	1 year 18 months	House of Annie Covest, Petone	95/3411		19 December 1895	Rev. A. J. Turner
401	20 December 1895	William Lilburn Jean Phelp	William Lilburn Jean Philp 💍 1895/2551	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	26 24	Wellington Wellington	5 days 7 months	House of Arthur Boulcott, Boulcott Street	95/4023		20 December 1895	Rev. C. J. Ogg
402	20 December 1895	Charles Henry William Nicholls Emilie Jane Braw	Charles Henry William Nicholls Emilie Jane Brace 💍 1895/1953	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	25 24	Wellington Wellington	years	St. Peter's Church	95/3420		20 December 1895	Rev. W. C. Waters
403	21 December 1895	Richard Saunders Maria Long Bash	Richard Saunders Maria Long Bath 💍 1895/1952	Bachelor Spinster	Printer	41 39	Wellington Wellington	3 days years	St. Peter's Church	95/3419		21 December 1895	Rev. W. C. Waters

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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 1898. More registers will be added when the Archives NZ Wellington reading room re-opens in September 2025.

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).