Intentions to Marry, 1898 January-June

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840413, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, June 27 2025

1898 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 750

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 June 1898 Registrar F. W. Mansfield

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
242	18 June 1898	Patrick Malone Margaret Mary Frost	Patrick Malone Margaret Mary Frost 💍 1898/1540	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	35 25	Wellington Wellington	5 years 22 years	St Mary's of the Angels Church, Wellington	98/1780		18 June 1898	Revd Thos De Voy
243	18 June 1898	William Horah Mary McEachern	William Storach Mary McEachern 💍 1898/1541	Bachelor Spinster	Sheepfarmer	53 30	Waipawa, Hawkes Bay Wellington	20 years 4 years	St Mary's of the Angels Church, Boulcott St, Wellington	98/1781		18 June 1898	Revd Thos De Voy
244	21 June 1898	Grey Kingston Chinn Grace Annie Barce		Bachelor Spinster	Bootmaker	25 21	Wellington Wellington	5 years 18 years	House of Mr W. Barce, Claytons Avenue, Wellington	98/1799		21 June 1898	Revd Charles Dallaston
245	22 June 1898	Carl Oscar Olson Emily Jane Couchman	Jarl Oscar Olson Emily Jane Couchman 💍 1898/3818	Bachelor Spinster	Tinsmith	25 20	Petone Petone	15 years 12 years	House of Mr G. Couchman, Cuba St, Petone	98/3021	Chas. Fredk Couchman, Father	23 June 1898	Revd Alex Thomson
246	24 June 1898	Alfred Frank Wallace Mariane Margaret La Fontaine	Alfred Frank Wallace Marian Margaret La Fontaine 💍 1898/2135	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk in Holy Orders	34 32	Timaru Barnby, Notts, England	6 weeks 32 years	St Peter's Church, Wellington	98/1761		24 June 1898	Revd H. C. Waters
247	27 June 1898	Gustav Hans Joachim Schipper Florence Amelia de Muir	Gustav Hans Joachim Alpen Florence Amelia Muir 💍 1898/1501	Bachelor Spinster	Gentleman	24 27	Wellington Wellington	18 months 5 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	98/1739		27 June 1898	F. W. Mansfield, Registrar
248	27 June 1898	Charles Philip Tunnicliffe Annie Amelia Brewer	Charles Philip Tunnicliffe Annie Orthelia Brewer 💍 1898/1552	Bachelor Spinster	Cab Driver	29 24	Wellington Wellington	3 1/2 years 23 years	House of Mr N. Brewer, Newtown Park, Wellington	98/1791		27 June 1898	Revd A. C. Lawry
249	27 June 1898	William Muir Mary Jane Dalgleish	William Muir Mary Jane Dalgleish 💍 1898/2233	Bachelor Spinster	Bricklayer	35 37	Wellington Wellington	6 years 11 years	House of Mr Dalgleish, 63 Sydney Street, Wellington	98/2490		27 June 1898	Revd James Paterson
250	27 June 1898	Frederick Miners Emily Alice Mundle	Frederick Miners Emily Alice Mundle 💍 1898/1553	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	21 20	Wellington Wellington	19 years 20 years	House of Mr Miners, Null Street, Wellington	98/1792	Kate Mundle, Mother	27 June 1898	Revd Albert C. Lawry
251	27 June 1898	Thomas John Walsh Blanche Kennedy	Thomas Joseph Walsh Blanch Kennedy 💍 1898/1542	Bachelor Spinster	Cordial Maker	26 23	Wellington Wellington	16 years 7 years	Boulcott St Church, Wellington	98/1782		27 June 1898	Revd Thos De Voy

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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 1899. More registers are being added almost every week.

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).