Intentions to Marry, 1899 July-December

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840416, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington (now located in the National Library reading room), September 5 2025

1899 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 949

District of East Taieri Quarter ending 31 December 1899 Registrar Alfred Dickson

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
21	16 September 1899	James Millar Mary Wroblefski	James Millar Mary Wroblefski 💍 1899/4137	Bachelor Spinster	Coalminer	28 years 20 years	Saddle Hill Allanton	20 years 20 years	Roman Catholic Church, Allanton		John Wroblefski, father	16 September 1899	Rev. Edward Patrick O'Connell
22	25 September 1899	John Laurie Jessie Fraser	John Currie Jessie Fraser 💍 1899/5241	Bachelor Spinster	Shepherd	33 years 33 years	North Taieri North Taieri	1 year 2 years	at the house of Mr. Allan Boyd, North Taieri			25 September 1899	Rev. Thomas Paulin
23	28 September 1899	James Alexander Stewart McButcheon Martha Pedofski	James Alexander Stewart McCutcheon Martha Pedofsky 💍 1899/4138	Bachelor Spinster	Ploughman	28 years 19 years	Allanton Allanton	9 years 19 years	Roman Catholic Church, Allanton		Joseph Pedofski, father	28 September 1899	Rev. Edward Patrick O'Connell
24	6 October 1899	George Ridgwell Mary Miller Christie	George Ridgwell Mary Miller Christie 💍 1899/5242	Bachelor Spinster	Rabbiter	30 years 21 years	Kuri Bush Kuri Bush	5 days 4 months	at the house of Mrs. Kirby	99/5383		6 October 1899	Rev. J. M. McKerrow
25	10 November 1899	Nathaniel Rollinson Elizabeth Hewitt	Nathaniel Rollinson Elizabeth Hewitt 💍 1899/5544	Bachelor Widow	Farmer	35 years 38 years	Whare Flat Whare Flat	4 days 3 months	at the house of Mr. Samuel Rollinson, Whare Flat	99/5382		10 November 1899	Rev. Thomas Paulin
26	16 November 1899	George Frederick Clulee Edith Broomfield Powell	George Frederick Clulee Edith Broomfield Powell 💍 1899/4133	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	21 years 24 years	East Taieri East Taieri	1 week 4 days	Office of the Registrar, Mosgiel	99/5043		16 November 1899	Alfred Dickson, Registrar
27	21 November 1899	Robert Howorth Annie Crawford London	Robert Howorth Annie Crawford London 💍 1899/5244	Bachelor Spinster	Colliery Proprietor	32 years 28 years	Walton Park Walton Park	32 years 28 years	at the house of Mr. James London, Walton Park	99/5385		21 November 1899	Rev. Dr. Watt
28	23 November 1899	James Lindsay Miller Agnes Simms Thomson	James Lindsay Miller Agnes Nimmo Thomas 💍 1899/5545	Bachelor Spinster	Bacon Curer	25 years 24 years	Riverside Riverside	3 days 1 year	at the house of Mr. William Thomson, Riverside	99/5386		23 November 1899	Rev. Dr. Watt
29	23 November 1899	Arthur Thomas West Catherine Miller	Arthur Thomas West Catherine Miller 💍 1899/5245	Bachelor Spinster	Farm Labourer	25 years 19 years	Saddle Hill Saddle Hill	10 years 19 years	at the house of Mr. William West, Saddle Hill	99/5387	David Miller, brother	23 November 1899	Rev. Dr. Watt
30	1 December 1899	James Geddes Agnes Roxburgh	James Geddis Agnes Roxburgh 💍 1899/5243	Bachelor Spinster	Carter	24 years 25 years	Allanton Allanton	3 days 25 years	at the house of Mr. Allan Roxburgh, Allanton	99/5384		1 December 1899	Rev. J. M. McKerrow

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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).