Intentions to Marry, 1900 January-June

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840417, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, September 12 2025

1900 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 674

District of Whangarei Quarter ending 30 June 1890 Registrar Charles Edmund Nicholas

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
12	4 April 1890	James Robert Hill Margaret Tippett	James Robert Hill Margaret Tippett 💍 1900/2863	Bachelor Spinster	Laborer	19 25	Whangarei Whangarei	life life	Christ Church, Whangarei	00/1590	John Hill, Father	4 April 1890	Rev L L Cubitt
13	10 April 1890	David Kerr Ellen Hawken	David Kerr Ellen Hawken 💍 1900/2868	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	29 24	Whangarei Maungatapere	1 year Life	Residence Brides parents, Maungatapere	00/1591		10 April 1890	Rev L L Cubitt
14	20 April 1890	Robert Roseman Elizabeth Mary Fuller	Robert Roseman Elizabeth Mary Fuller 💍 1900/2864	Bachelor Spinster	Engine Man	35 22	Whangarei Whangarei	7 months 5 years	Wesleyan Church, Whangarei	00/1599		20 April 1890	Rev J W Griffin
15	5 May 1890	Joseph Hamilton Ellen Campbell	Joseph Hamilton Ellen Campbell 💍 1900/2873	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	28 25	Hikurangi Otonga East	5 years life	Church England, Hikurangi	00/1596		5 May 1890	Rev J H Hawkes MA
16	7 May 1890	John Behersing Ruth Rose Henderson	John Behersing Ruth Rose Henderson 💍 1900/2869	Bachelor Spinster	Bushman	35 22	Dargaville Whangarei	10 years 3 years	Residence W Middleton, Whangarei	00/1592		7 May 1890	Rev L L Cubitt
17	15 May 1890	Frederick Griffin Daisy Jackson	Frederick Griffin Daisy Jackson 💍 1900/2865	Bachelor Spinster	Platelayer	24 19	Kamo Kamo	16 years 16 years	Residence Brides parents, Kamo	00/1600	Jane Jackson, mother	15 May 1890	Rev J W Griffin
18	21 May 1890	William Thomas Maria Cronin	William Thomas Maria Crosier 💍 1900/2870	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith	25 29	Whangarei Whangarei	Life 5 years	Residence Grooms parents, Whangarei	00/1593		21 May 1890	Rev J H Hawkes MA
19	13 June 1890	John Francis Wardrope Christina McLean	John Francis Wardrope Christina McLean 💍 1900/2875	Bachelor Spinster	Plumber	25 17	Hikurangi Hikurangi	2 years 5 years	English Church, Hikurangi	00/1598	John McLean, Father	13 June 1890	Rev J H Hawkes MA
20	13 June 1890	Robert Nair McMillan Laura Larkin	Robert Maia McMillan Laura Larkin 💍 1900/2830	Bachelor Spinster	Miner	35 21	Hikurangi Hikurangi	2 years 6 months	Registrars office, Whangarei	00/1589		13 June 1890	Registrar, Whangarei
21	13 June 1890	Frederick Lee Eliza Maud Hamilton	Frederick Lee Eliza Maud Hamilton 💍 1900/2871	Bachelor Spinster	Settler	30 22	Whananaki Whananaki	11 years 13 years	Residence Brides parents, Whananaki	00/1594		13 June 1890	Rev E M Cowie MA

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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).